Many stores will have pre-prepared fruits to be used in fruit cakes. Sometimes they are candied, but more often they are dried fruits with a little sweetning sauce.
fat is used in fruit cake by putting chiken fat into it and adding the fruit so you can't taste it. That is why no one likes it.
Orange, lime and lemon peel are normally used to make candid peel.
fruitcake can be best used as such. fruitcake is very delicious.
Depending on the ingredients used, some fruit cakes have been known to last for decades.
definitely. Alcohol was used to preserve the fruitcake.
Chillies. They carry the seeds making them a fruit andare used for spice.
Most cookies can be frozen. If they are moist when they freeze, they will freeze together and be a solid mess of goop when they thaw. Some types of cookies will crumble when they are unfrozen, but most will freeze fine.
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Candied lemon peel (easy to do homemade). Or other candied citrus peels; orange, lime, grapefruit etc... Or perhaps crystallised ginger, glace cherries or raisins.
There are 2 types of orange peel; candied and plain. Candied orange peel is used in baking (fruit cakes, cookies) and plain orange peel is used in savory dishes and sauces. It can be purchased in spice jars or homemade. To make it at home thinly shave or grate the orange part of the peel from a fresh orange. Do not include the white "pith" as it is bitter. To sweeten it boil it in sugar water and dry overnight.
Nougat is a term used to describe a variety of similar confectioneries made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios or hazelnuts are common) and sometimes chopped candied fruit. The consistency of nougat can range from chewy to hard depending on its composition
yes you can! it turns out even better!