Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, soaking fruits for a fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. Soak your fruit with alcohol for up to one month. With black tea you can use a standard cup of very strong plain tea, but it also tastes amazing to use a flavoured black tea.
Soaking Fruits For A Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Soaking Fruits For A Fruit Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have soaking fruits for a fruit cake using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve 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
- Make ready Alcohol
- Take Coffee
- Make ready Black tea
- Prepare Juice
It is also very important to allow the cake to be matured by feeding the same alcohol which has been used to soak the fruits till Christmas. 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 fruits before three months of christmas ie.
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
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 fruits before three months of christmas ie. Soaking fruit for christmas cake non alcoholic. If you decide to add candied peel reduce the quantity of glace cherries and replace that with the candied peel. Rich fruit cakes- boozy, non-boozy, citrusy, tea flavoured… so many varieties.
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