Old World Fruit Cake
Ingredients
Cake
1 C. all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. allspice
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. mace
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 C. melted butter
2 eggs
3/4 C. black coffee (cold)
1/2 C. brown sugar
1 C. raisins
1 C. mixed fruit
1 C. dates
1/4 C. rum or brandy.
Glaze
4 Tbsp. butter
1/2 C. rum or brandy
1/2 C. sugar
Cooking Instructions
Mix melted butter, eggs, rum and coffee together. Add brown sugar plus mix well. Add rest of dry ingredients plus place in buttered loaf pan. Bake at 300 for 2 hours or until done (it will separate from sides of pan). Make glaze when almost completely baked: Melt (do not boil) butter. Add rum and sugar. Stir by hand. Remove from oven plus pour half of the glaze over. Let cool 25 minutes, turn it over plus pour remaining glaze on other side. Don’t use glass pans. Warm the frozen cake in oven, not microwave.
While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My body." (Matthew 26:26)
