I've made a few changes to the classic family recipe this year. 1) Soak the fruit for a week, stirring daily: 500g mixed fruit and peel 1 small pot of glacier cherries 200g mixed nuts 70cl (minus two shot glasses worth to taste...) cherry brandy 2) Mix 4oz butter and 4oz brown sugar 3) Add 2 eggs alternately with 6oz plain flour 4) Add this to the fruit mixture with 1tsp allspice, 7ml liquid glycerol, 7ml black treacle and bicarbonate of soda. 5) Cook in a cool oven (150 C) for two hours then cool. 6) Feed with amaretto weekly. It was a pretty delicious cake that went down very well with the DH's father- always good! The nuts definitely added something to it and the amaretto and cherry brandy made it very sweet so it didn't really taste of fruit cake, so not a recipe for the traditionalist.
Next year I will put in less amaretto- it was incredibly gooey!
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