Fruit Cake
Ingredients :
| 1. |
Ghee - 1/2kg
Butter or dalda - 1/2kg
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8. |
Ground nutmeg,
cinnamon & clove - 1tsp each
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| 2. |
Powdered Sugar - 1kg
Sugar for browning - 1/2kg
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9.
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Cumin - little
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| 3. |
Refined flour -
1kg
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10.
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Grapes with seeds - 200gm
Grapes without seeds - 200gm
Cherries - 175gm
Cashew
nuts - 175gm
Lion
dates - 250gm
Skin of 11/2 orange
Brandy - 4ounce |
| 4. |
Baking powder - 4tsp
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| 5. |
Egg - 1kg
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| 6. |
Vanilla essence - 4tsp
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| 7. |
Salt - 1/2tsp
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Method : 
Slice all the 10th ingredients, except cashew nuts,
into small pieces. Soak and keep the slices in brandy one week
before preparing the cake.
Powder 1/2kg sugar. Dissolve
(Burn) it on a low flame and keep it aside. Allow it
to cool.
Sieve the flour and baking powder together. Add the ground masalas,
the fruits soaked in brandy and the chopped cashew nuts in it.
Mix together all the ingredients.
Rub ghee and butter together. Mix it with the
powdered sugar. Beat the egg yolk and egg white separately. Add the egg yolk little by little
into the sugar-ghee mixture and mix well. Add the burned sugar.
Add essence to the beaten egg white. Mix it with the sugar-ghee mixture.
In a greased and floured vessel pour the sugar-ghee mixture
first and then the fruit mixture evenly. Repeat alternately. Spread cumin over the cake
batter and bake it.
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