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butter sugar eggs baking soda buttermilk flour ground cinnamon ground nutmeg ground cloves red plum pecans raisins dates brandy cheesecloth
Viewed: 45 - Published at: 7 years agoIngredients
- 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 3 cups flour, divided
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 cup red plum jam
- 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- 1 cup goldn raisins (I soaked mine in extra liquor)
- 1 cup quartered dates
- 1 cup brandy, bourbon or 1 cup sherry wine
- cheesecloth
Method
- Cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg yolks until fluffy.
- Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk; beat it into eggs.
- Combine 2 1/2 cups flour with spices. Add to egg mixture, alternately with jam.
- Beat egg whites until almost stiff and fold into batter.
- Combine remaining flour with pecans, raisins and dates; fold into batter.
- Pour into well-greased and floured 10" tube pan. (I used bundt pan.). Bake at 300 F 3 to 3 1/3 hours (depends on oven). (NOTE: I believe it took mine no more than 2 hours to bake.) Place on wire rack until completely cool.
- Soak cheesecloth in liquor and wrap cake. Wrap with foil. Brush with more liquor every week, closing tight with foil. Let age 4-6 weeks in cool place.
