The Woodstocker Inn

Daisy Doo's Fruit Cake: Appetizer-Snack

Servings: 10

Prep time:Months!

Ingredients:

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  2 lb Loads of dried fruit soaked in a lot of alcohol for days!

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  1/2 lb Flour

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  2/3 lb Organic Butter

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  Pinch of salt

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  tablespoon Cinnamon/nutmeg

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  1 lb Dried Sultanas

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  1 lb Currents & blueberries

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  8 Cage free Eggs

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  2/3 lb Dark brown raw sugar

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  1 pinch Lemon/orange rind

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  1/2 lb Almonds

Step 1:

Soak all fruit for at least four days in adeep bowl in a generous amount of booze - whisky/brandy/vodka or whatever tickles your fancy! Hic hic.... Grease a large baking tin (round or square) and line with grease proof paper. Set oven to 350oF Separate flour into 3 bowls. In a bowl mix 1 portion of flour with moist alcohol rich dried fruit. Beat butter until soft and mix with rind and sugar in the 2nd flour bowl. Add eggs one at a time and beat into butter/rind mix. Fold in 2nd portion of flour mixed with spices into butter/rind mix. Mix in the fruit mix and 3rd portion of flour

Step 2:

Put all the mixture in tin and smooth the top off with a little water. Bake for about 2.5 hours After one hour turn oven down to 325oF If top starts getting burnt cover with moist grease proof paper.

Step 3:

After two hours check middle of cake with skewer. If skewer comes out clean the cake is cooked - if not bake longer until skewer is clean when inserted into cake centre. Allow cake to cool for about 30 minutes and turn cake out of tin onto a baking rack to cool.

Step 4:

When cold wrap cake in foil and feed cake once a week with a little of your favourite tipple by inserting skewer into cake and pouring a drop of whatever into the hole. Feed for six months or more then eat slowly and burp! This cake promises to dispell the myth of tired dry old fruit cakes!!!!!!!!!!