Yum, Faye, I used to make this but lost my recipe. I'd be interested in the recipe "straight from the horse's mouth" (ie from America) too. I seem to remember it was almost all glazed fruit and lots of big Brazil nuts, and you cut it in thin slices. We called it "stained glass fruit cake" because a thin slice looked like a piece of stained glass, with all the lovely glace fruit colours.
My Christmas cake this year was a super easy, never fail mango fruit cake: 1x 425 gm tin mango slices, undrained, chopped roughly. 500 gm mixed fruit (3 large cups), half a cup of water 2 tabs of sugar. Bring slowly to boil and simmer 1 minute or longer, doesn't seem to matter. Set aside to cool Stir in to the cooled mixture: 1� cups self raising flour ) 1� teaspoons bicarbonate of soda) sifted together 1 teaspoon mixed spice ) and 2 eggs, lightly beaten Mix well. Place in prepared tin. (deep loaf tin) Cook about 1 hour at 160 deg. (slow oven) until skewer comes out clean For Christmas, I replaced some of the mixed fruit with glace cherries (all colours) and decorated the top with almonds and more glace cherries before putting in the oven. Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ > I would like to ask if anyone has a recipe for "A Festive Fruit Cake", my > sister bought one with her from America when she visited and it was delicious > but she did not make it herself but said it was typical of American Christmas > Cakes, it is made with very little cake mixture but has lots of dried fruit > and glazed fruit. > Faye Owers To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
