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    How to Soak Dried Fruits for Christmas

    December 15, 2016 By Aarthi 4 Comments

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    All those christmas fruit cake lover will be starting to soak their dry fruits a year before christmas. The longer the fruits steep in rum the more flavourful it will get.

    You can use any dried fruits and any quantity you like. But make sure you add lots of raisans, since it makes your cake dark and yummy.

    You can use this dried fruit mix in these recipes

    Christmas Rum Fruit Cake
    Caramel Fruit Cake
    Eggless Fruit Cake
    Chocolate Fruit Cake
    Microwave Fruit Cake
    Mocha Fruit Cake

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    Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

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    Preparation Time : 10 mins


    Ingredients:

    Raisans - 2 cup
    Sultanas - 1 cup
    Dates - 1 cup chopped
    Tutti Fruity - 1 cup
    Dried Cranberries - ½ cup
    Cherries - ½ cup chopped
    Prunes - ½ cup chopped
    Currants - ½ cup chopped
    Dried Apricots - ½ cup chopped
    Mixed Nuts - 1 cup (optional- cashews, walnuts, almonds)
    Rum or Wine - 2 to 3 cup

    Method:

    Take all dried fruits and nuts in a bowl. 

    Pour over wine or rum and mix well.

    Store this in a air tight container or glass jar in a dark place for a year. The fruits should be completely covered in alcohol if you are soaking it for longer time.

    Give the bottle a shake every now and then. Top with more liquor as days pass, since the fruits will absorb the liquor a lot.

    You can use the fruits from second day itself.

    Notes:

    1)You can soak the dry fruits over a year. Make sure you use a clean dry glass jar and make sure the dry fruits is completely immersed in alcohol.

    2)You can top with more alcohol as days pass by, since the fruits will absorb the alcohol.

    3)You can start using this in cakes from the second day itself. But leaving it to soak for a week give maximum flavour.

    4)You can use Dark Rum, Brandy, Red Wine or any wine to soak the fruits.

    5)Store this in a dry dark place.

    6)Shake the fruits every other day for even distribution.

    7)If you dont want to use alcohol, use orange juice to soak the fruits, in which case store the dried fruits in fridge and use in a couple of days.

    Pictorial:

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    take all dried fruit and nuts in a bowl
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    pour over rum or wine
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    mix well
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    if you are storing this for longer month, then make sure the
    dried fruits is completely immersed in alcohol
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    store this in a clean dry jar away from sunlight

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    Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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    1. jamuna vignesh

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      It was indeed a timely post...in fact I was looking for the same in afternoon....good job...keep going..

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    2. Pooja goel

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      This quantity of soaked dry fruits can be used to make how much Christmas rum cake...

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    3. Chisom Ogbogu

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      Hello! When you use juice to soak the fruits, do you still have to put the almond, cashews and walnut

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      • Aarthi

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        you can add nuts in this when soaking, it will make the nuts soft. Or if you want them to stay crunchy then add them into the cake batter when making the cake.

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