Tips from professional Chef Tallyrand:
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Tallyrand
Food and Cooking Tips
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Food
tip on Fruit Cake for Christmas
 When
adding dried spices to a cake recipe mix them to a paste
with a little water, they will be incorporated easier.
To
test when cake is cooked insert a clean vegetable knife
or cocktail stick into the centre of the cake if it
is still clean when you remove it the cake is cooked,
if not return it to the oven until it is done
Place
the cold cake in an airtight cake tin or similar until
required, open every week and turn over. Inject or sprinkle
30ml of alcohol of choice if preferred each week: brandy,
rum, whisky etc. Then a few days before Christmas:
- remove
from tin and spread with an apricot glaze (2 parts
apricot jam, 1 part water, bring to boil and simmer
to a syrup consistency) pass through a strainer to
remove lumps)
- cover
with marzipan
- cover
icing of choice: plastic or royal icing (see
recipe for fuit cake)
- decorate
as required
Related
Recipe:
Published
20
November
2000
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