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Light Fruit Cake

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Recipe

 

Yield

1 loaf

Prep

30 min

Cook

3 hrs

Ready

3 hrs
Trans-fat Free, High Fiber

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
½ pound pineapple
glace
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2 pounds golden raisins
sultanas
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1 pound cherries
glace
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1 pound almonds
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5 cups all-purpose flour
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1 teaspoon baking powder
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1 pound butter
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2 cups sugar
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½ teaspoon nutmeg
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10 large eggs
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1 each lemon
juice and rind
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1 each oranges
uice and rind
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1 teaspoon rose extract
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1 teaspoon almond extract
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Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
226.8 g pineapple
glace
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907.2 g golden raisins
sultanas
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453.6 g cherries
glace
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453.6 g almonds
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1.2 l all-purpose flour
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5 ml baking powder
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453.6 g butter
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473 ml sugar
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2.5 ml nutmeg
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1E+1 large eggs
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1 each lemon
juice and rind
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1 each oranges
uice and rind
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5 ml rose extract
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5 ml almond extract
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Directions

Clean sultanas, slice pineapple thinly, halve cherries.

Mix and sift flour, baking powder and spice and add half to prepared fruit.

In a large bowl, cream butter and gradually beat in sugar.

Add well beaten eggs and beat well.

Fold other half of flour mixture into creamed mixture alternately with juices and beat well.

Add fruit to to creamed mixture.

Combine mixture til thoroughly blended.

Split almonds and add to mixture, saving some whole for top.

Add flavourings.

Pour mixture into cake pans which have been lined with 3 thicknesses of newspaper, with top layer of greased wax paper.

Bake cake at 275℉ (140℃). for approximately 3 hours or til firm and untilcake mixture is firm when pressed.

Cool on cake rack until thoroughly cold.

Wrap in foil and store in cake tins.



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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1051g (37.1 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 340744% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 165g 254%
Saturated Fat 67g 336%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 773mg 258%
Sodium 861mg 36%
Total Carbohydrate 151g 151%
Dietary Fiber 31g 123%
Sugars g
Protein 133g
Vitamin A 73% Vitamin C 98%
Calcium 58% Iron 106%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
 

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