Rumkage

== Description ==
Danish rum cake - Makes 1 cake
== Ingredients ==
* 1 pound candied cherries
* 1 pound candied pineapple 
* 1 pound seeded raisins 
* ½ pound candied citron 
* 1 pound currants 
* ½ pound candied orange peel 
* 1 pint rum 
* 1 pound butter 
* 2½ cups sugar 
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon 
* 1 teaspoon cloves
* 1 teaspoon nutmeg 
* 12 eggs 
* 2 pounds almonds -- chopped 
* 1½ pounds filberts -- chopped 
* 5 cups flour -- sifted 
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
== Directions ==
# Halve or coarsely chop all of the fruits, combine them with the rum and let soak overnight.
# Cream the butter, the sugar and the spices well together.
# Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
# Add nuts to the fruit mixture and sprinkle with ½ cup of the flour.
# Add baking powder with the rest of the flour and (using your hands) blend well into the mixture. 
# Combine with butter, Sugar and egg mixture. 
# Fill greased and floured loaf pans (9×5×3) ¾ full of the batter. 
# Bake in a preheated 275ºF oven about 3 hours (more or less is your pans are larger or smaller than standard loaf tins). 
# To prevent scorching while baking, set loaf pans into shallow pans ¼ full of water. 
# Cool completely and wrap with brandy-soaked cloths. 
# If you wish to store these cakes for some time, moisten them now and then with additional brandy or rum.
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