Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, soaking fruits for a fruit cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Soaking Fruits For A Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Soaking Fruits For A Fruit Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Soak your fruit with alcohol for up to one month. With black tea you can use a standard cup of very strong plain tea, but it also tastes amazing to use a flavoured black tea. I have used a vanilla-scented black tea, and also a chai tea and both of these added depth of flavour.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have soaking fruits for a fruit cake using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Soaking Fruits For A Fruit Cake:
- Prepare Dried fruits of your choice.. quantity the recipe calls for
- Get Soaking options
- Get Alcohol
- Make ready Coffee
- Prepare Black tea
- Take Juice
The choice of fruits and the proportions For a non alcoholic christmas fruit cake soak your fruits overnight. Secondly soak fruits five weeks before christmas ie. The significant part of the preparation is the soaking of the fruits the longer the tastier. Rich fruit cakes- boozy, non-boozy, citrusy, tea flavoured… so many varieties.
Steps to make Soaking Fruits For A Fruit Cake:
- You can soak your dried fruits in rum or wine
- Non alcoholic options include black coffee, black tea, and juices
- Soak for 24 hours to 12 months.. Keep checking the liquid level.. Add more if need be and turn your fruits to ensure they are well soaked
Traditional cakes have a lot of pre-soaked fruits in alcohol like rum, vodka, wine etc. Yearly bakers start to soak their mixed fruits the beginning of the year and bake first week in December and feed the cakes with alcohol once a week up to Christmas. Some say the traditional way is to soak fruits three months before Christmas that would be first/second week of September and then bake approximately five weeks before Christmas. Soak the fruit before baking, in the same spirit you plan to use for preserving the cake. Feel free to dilute the rum or whiskey with water, since most of the alcohol will evaporate during the baking process.
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