Categories: Cakes, Usenet 
      Yield: 1 cake 
  
------------------------------------CAKE------------------------------------ 
      1 c  Flour, all-purpose 
    1/2 t  Salt 
    1/4 t  Baking soda 
    1/4 t  Baking powder 
    1/2 t  Allspice 
    1/2 t  Cinnamon 
    1/2 t  Cloves 
    1/2 t  Mace 
    1/2 t  Nutmeg 
    1/2 c  Butter, melted 
      2    Eggs 
    3/4 c  Coffee (black), cold 
    1/2 c  Brown sugar 
      1 c  Raisins 
      1 c  Fruit, mixed 
      1 c  Dates 
    1/4 c  Rum or brandy 
 
-----------------------------------GLAZE----------------------------------- 
      4 T  Butter 
    1/2 c  Rum or brandy 
    1/2 c  Sugar 
  
  Mix the melted butter, eggs, rum and coffee together.  Add brown sugar and 
  mix well. Add rest of dry ingredients and place in a buttered loaf pan. 
   
  Bake at 300 degrees F. for 2 hours or until done (it will separate from the 
  sides of the pan).  Make glaze when almost completely baked:  Melt (do not 
  boil) butter.  Add rum and sugar.  Stir by hand.  Remove the cake from the 
  oven and pour half of the glaze over it.  Let it cool 25 minutes, then turn 
  it over and pour the remaining glaze on the other side. 
   
  NOTES: 
   
  *  A traditional European-style fruit cake -- Although fruitcakes have a 
  bad reputation, this one is *excellent*. My mother has been making it for 
  years. She originally got the recipe from a friend, but has since adapted 
  it to suit her fans. (She gets requests for it all year long.) 
   
  *  Don't use glass pans.  This freezes well, if you make more than you can 
  eat; just be sure to wrap it carefully so it doesn't get freezer burn. Warm 
  frozen cake in the oven, not the microwave. 
   
  : Difficulty:  easy to moderate. 
  : Time:  15 minutes preparation, 2 hours baking, 30 minutes finishing. 
  : Precision:  measure the ingredients. 
   
  : Seema Chandnani 
  : University of Chicago Computation Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA 
  : snix@sphinx.uchicago.edu 
   
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