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Japanese Fruit Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 c butter or oleo
1 c sugar
4 4 eggs
1 c buttermilk
1 c chopped raisins
1 c chopped nuts
3 c flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp cloves
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking soda

Filling

2 boxes coconut
2 1/2 c sugar
2 tbsp flour
2 lemons, grated (rind and juice)
1 1/2 c hot water
Directions:
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together and combine 2 mixtures. Flour raisins and nuts. Add to first mixture. Pour into 3 9-inch layer pans. Bake in 375 º oven for 35 mins. Put together with Japanese Fruit Cake Filling.


Filling

Combine all ingredients and cook until thick. Cool slightly and put between layers and on top layer. I add nuts and raisins and whatever else I take a notion to.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe is over 70 years old. My mother use to make this every year for Thanksgiving and for
Christmas. She made this, a chocolate cake and a coconut cake before Thanksgiving every year and we had half of each for Thanksgiving and the other half for Christmas.

 

 

 

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