Grape Jelly Fruit Cake - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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1 c. butter or shortening
1 c. sugar
6 eggs
1/2 glass grape jelly
1 c. wine or 1 apple (optional)
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
2 1/2 c. flour
2 Tbsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. baking powder
2 Tbsp. melted charlotte
1/2 c. citron
2 1/2 lb. raisins
1/2 lb. Crysdale cherry
1/2 lb. crystal pineapple
1 Tbsp. orange peel
2 Tbsp. orange paste
Preparation
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Mix shortening and sugar well, add eggs, one at a time, then jelly,
cinnamon,
nutmeg, allspice, melted charlotte and orange paste, sift
flour\tand
baking powder.
Roll fruits in 1/2 cup flour, add flour
1 cup at a time, add fruit and flour and vanilla.
Bake
slowly
1
1/4
hours or until done.
When tested, pour wine
over
cake.
When cold, put in a container, cut raw apple on
top, add spoonfuls of wine over it, then put a tight lid over it, for two to three weeks before Christmas.
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