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rushthatspeaks and I chopped the traditional quantities of dried and candied fruit tonight, nor the Christmas tree that I got with my parents earlier in the evening, nor the bagel with sturgeon on it that I ate for lunch, which was indeed better with butter than with cream cheese. I spent a decent amount of the day moving around in the sunlight: I was particularly fond of the apricot-bronze of the late afternoon. I had onigiri and lemon cookies. I ran into someone I had hoped never to see again and was not recognized because I was masked at the time. I am three or four chapters into Dick Francis' Enquiry (1969) and feeling more than a little mentally AWOL, but it has been an objectively good day.
rushthatspeaks and I chopped the traditional quantities of dried and candied fruit tonight, nor the Christmas tree that I got with my parents earlier in the evening, nor the bagel with sturgeon on it that I ate for lunch, which was indeed better with butter than with cream cheese. I spent a decent amount of the day moving around in the sunlight: I was particularly fond of the apricot-bronze of the late afternoon. I had onigiri and lemon cookies. I ran into someone I had hoped never to see again and was not recognized because I was masked at the time. I am three or four chapters into Dick Francis' Enquiry (1969) and feeling more than a little mentally AWOL, but it has been an objectively good day.
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Rose Family Fruitcake, halved
1/4 cup dried apples, diced
1/4 cup dried pears, diced
1/2 cup dried rosehips, seeds removed
1/4 cup sun dried cherries, chopped
1/4 cup dried apricots, chopped
1/2 cup candied quince
Zest and juice of one lemon, grated finely (can be replaced by 1/4 cup more rosehips)
1/4 cup applejack
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 stick unsalted butter
1/2 cup unfiltered apple juice
1/2 cup apple butter
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger (so that those who don’t like ginger can have some)
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1 pinch cloves
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 tbsp cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg
Applejack for basting and/or spritzing
Combine dried fruits, zest, juices, jam/preserves, sugar, butter, and spices in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, turn off and let cool. Heat oven to 325 degrees.
Combine dry ingredients and sift into fruit mixture. Quickly bring batter together with a large wooden spoon, then stir in eggs one at a time until completely integrated.
Spoon into a 10-inch non-stick loaf pan (or any other pan you want to use; that's AB's boilerplate) and bake for 1 hour. (Or bake as rose-shaped cupcakes! 45 minutes) REMEMBER TO SPREAD BATTER FLAT AS IT DOES NOT FLATTEN
Remove cake from oven and place on cooling rack or trivet. Let cool 10 minutes, turn out of pan, sprinkle with more applejack.
When cake is completely cooled, seal in a tight sealing, food safe container. Let age for a couple weeks, sprinkling with more applejack if necessary.
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That looks spectacular!
Do you have rosehips in your yard or where do you get them?
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Fortunately lots of people sell rosehips for tea & jam making, already split and seeds removed. I usually buy them off Etsy or Amazon.
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Also, I probably should have given you the properly sized recipe, ahaha