Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, soaking fruits for a fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Soaking Fruits For A Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Soaking Fruits For A Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
If you are pushed for time then you can soak the fruits overnight or boil the fruits in the alcohol. You can put any dried fruit combination in your fruit cake depending on the flavor and texture you are after. Jamaican Christmas Fruit Cake is not complete without soaking your fruits in some white rum and red label wine for about a year or at least a week in a jar (preferably a glass jar) with a lid.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Take Dried fruits of your choice.. quantity the recipe calls for
- Make ready Soaking options
- Get Alcohol
- Take Coffee
- Make ready Black tea
- Get Juice
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.
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
The better your spirits, the better the flavor of the finished cake. Cover tightly with a plastic wrap and, and store at room temperature. Because Aunt Margaret decreed that the fruitcake must be soaked, and soaked it shall be. Even though this venerable family cook passed away many years ago, we dare not tinker with her time-honored dessert. And she would NOT be pleased.
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