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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes,rec.food.cooking
- From: dz234@cleveland.freenet.edu (Helen B. Greenleaf)
- Subject: Thistle Lane Fruitcake
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Message-ID: <3bveto$nu0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <9411262021.ba07699@post.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 16:25:27 GMT
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- This recipe does not have the typical mixed candied fruit, but I always
- get requests for the recipe
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- THISTLE LANE FRUITCAKE
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- 3/4 cup dried apricots
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 1/2 cups sugar, divided
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup pitted prunes
- 3/4 cup pitted dates
- 3/4 cup candied cherries
- 3 cups walnuts (halves and large pieces)
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
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- In a saucepan simmer apricots in the water for about 5 minutes.
- Add 3/4 cup sugar and cook slowly for 10 minutes or until
- transparent and glazed. Lift apricots out of the syrup and drain
- on wire rack. Save the syrup to glaze cake.
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- Sift flour with the remaining 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder and salt.
- In a bowl, combine all fruits and walnuts. Add flour mixture and mix
- gently.
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- Beat eggs with vanilla until light and fluffy. Gently mix into fruit and
- nut mixture. Turn into a greased 9 inch springform pan. Bake at 300 F
- about 1 1/2 hours or until cake is set in center. Cool in pan.
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- When cake is cold, remove from pan and brush with heated reserved apricot
- syrup. OPTION: add rum or brandy after heating syrup and before brushing
- on cake.
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