BEST FRUIT/RUM CAKE
Ingredients:
1 C butter 1 tsp baking soda
1 C sugar 1 tsp salt
4 large eggs lemon juice
1 C dried fruit 1 C brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder nuts
1 or 2 quarts rum
Before you start, sample the rum to check for quality. (Pretty good, huh?) Now go ahead.
Select a large mixing bowl, measuring cup, etc. Check rum again as it must be just right. To be sure the rum is of the finest quality, pour one level cup into a glass and drink it as fast as you can. Repeat, if needed.
With an electric mixer, beat 1 cupa the butter in a large fluffy bowl an' add 1 teaspoon of zugar an' beat again.
Meanwhile, make sure that the rum is of the finest quality. Cry anuther tup. Open second quart, ef neceszary.
Add 2 arge eggs. 2 cupsa fried druit and beat til high. If th' druit get stuck ina beaters, jes pry loose witha drewsciver
Sample rum again to check for tonscisticity.
Next, sift 3 cups od salt oar anythink. it really doesn't matter. Sample the rlum.
Sift half pint of lemon juice. Fold ina chopped butter an strained nuts................ Add 1 dabblespoon o' brown zugar, or whatever color you cin fine, an' mix mell. Grease over an' turn cake pan to 350 gredees.
Now poor a whole mess into the boven and ake.
Check the rum again and bo to ged.