The smell of our home was amazing as she baked them. This fruit cake is usually made by soaking dried fruits in alcohol. It ...

The best fruit cakes are matured for at least a month and moistened or ‘fed’ from time to time with alcohol such as sherry, Madeira or brandy. Fruit cakes made solely from dried fruit will ...

Soak the raisins in the rum for 30 minutes ... Fold into the cake mixture one-third at a time, add the fruit and chopped nuts with the last addition of egg white. Pour into the prepared tin ...

Although this cake does not contain plum, the fruit, as the name may suggest but plum actually ... raisins and many more dried fruits. You may or may not add rum or brandy, as used in some regions.