Miracle Fruit Cake from a label Grandma saved recipe - from the Minnie Cox Cookbook Project Family Cookbook (2024)

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Category:

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

1 c DROMEDARY CHOPPED DATES
1 c seedless raisins
2/3 c butter
1 1/4 c brown sugar packed
1/4 c dark molasses
1 1/2 c hot water
2 eggs beaten
2 c (1 lb) DROMEDARY FRUITS and PEELS
1 c chopped nuts
3 c sifted flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

Directions:

Directions:

Combine in saucepan first six ingredients. Boil gently for 3 minutes. Cool in large mixing bowl. Add eggs, DROMEDARY FRUITS and PEELS and nuts. Sift together flour, spices, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add gradually to fruit mixture, beating well after each addition. Pour into 9-inch tube pan, lined with greased wax paper. Bake in a slow oven (275 degrees) for 2 1/2 hours or until tester inserted in center comes out clean. Remove cake from pan. Cool thoroughly. Wrap securely in alluminum foil or wax paper. Store in a clean air-tight container in cool place. Age 3 to 4 weeks to improve flavor. Will store well for 6 weeks.

The ingredients listed on the "fruits and peels" label are orange peel, citron, lemon peel, cherries, pineapple preserved with cane sugar, corn syrup certified food color' The produce is from National Biscuit Comopany, Special Products Division, N.Y. N.Y.

Number OfServings:

Number OfServings:

One cake

PreparationTime:

PreparationTime:

prepare to spend at least 1/2 day on this

Personal Notes:

Personal Notes:

Jane sent me some recipes that were loose in Grandma's cookbook and this was among them! I was looking through them on Grandma's birthday and found it! There was no date on the label. The back of the label had part of a pie recipe but this was clearly the recipe Grandma had saved. The tins and the preserving sure sound familiar. I capitalized what was capitalized on the recipe, so we're probably looking at the Dromedary brand.
Nancy: I remember Christmas decorating with Grandma. From somewhere she or Grandpa or possibly you, Robert, cut holly branches. She kept them on the porch until we were ready to make what we would now call swags and tie red ribbon on them. Had one in the kitchen and one in the living room on the wall. Sometimes flower vases with holly bouquets.
Fruitcake was started in the fall and on Saturdays we would open the tins and resoak the cheese cloth they were wrapped in. It must have been with wine because Grandma did make wine in the pantry closet and I don't ever remember seeing a whiskey bottle of any kind there.(except the fifth of tequila with the dead worm in the bottom of it that Uncle Rupert gave Grandpa at Christmas one year. ) The tree was big sometimes but mostly I remember the ones that sat on top of the sewing machine with the bubble lights on it. Never got tired of watching those bubble lights or smelling that pine smell.
We didn't have those at Mama's and we always had to wait until school was out to do our tree because Mama's at school had our decorations on it. I guess the school didn't own any then and they certainly couldn't now!
Remember drawing names for next year at the end of the Christmas Day at Grandma's? How did we manage to run around in the house at Grandma's with so many of us and not drive the adults crazy? We did play in the cold bedroom in the back and off the kitchen. And your memory, Anne, is not selective. We didn't fuss or quarrel about stuff. We just had a good time and we needed everybody to play, so I guess people didn't get mad.