Brandied Fruit Start (for friendship cake). Brandied fruit is fruit that's soaked in brandy and sugar until it is fermented. The fermented fruit may be used in cake mixes, drizzled over ice cream, pies, and pound cake or any way you desire! In our house, it's a holiday tradition for Christmas and other holidays.
Peaches, canned, sugar, yeast, active dry, pineapple chunks, fruit cocktail, maraschino cherries. A tried-and-true family recipe for Friendship Fruit Cakes and fruit cake Starter. But then you taste the fruit cake and you're blown away with how awesome it is and feel bad for acting like a brat about it. You can cook Brandied Fruit Start (for friendship cake) using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Brandied Fruit Start (for friendship cake)
- Prepare 1 gallon of glass container with lid.
- You need 2 can of Peaches.
- It’s 1 can of pineapple chunks.
- Prepare 1 can of fruit cocktail.
- You need 2 of each maraschino cheries.
- It’s 1 packages of yeast.
- It’s 2 1/2 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 2 1/2 cup of sugar.
- It’s 2 1/2 cup of sugar.
And then you actually sit down and read the recipe and start to feel all superior because you see how. Fruit can be frozen to keep or is great over ice cream. Grease and flour Bundt or angle food cake pan. Start with wide mouth glass. cups sugar and fruit cocktail and maraschino cherries.
Brandied Fruit Start (for friendship cake) step by step
- No the sugar listed 3 times is not a mistake as you'll see..
- Start by dumping the first of your 2.5 cup sugar batches into the glass container.
- Add the yeast package and well as the 2 cans of peaches..
- Stir the mixture till all the sugar and yeast are well blended. and loosely cover the container..
- Stir daily for 10 days..
- On day 10 add the cans of fruit cocktail & pineapple. Also add 2.5 cups of sugar. Stir and cover..
- Stir daily for 10 days.
- On day 20 drain the juice from the maraschino cheries and slice them in half..
- Add the sliced, drained cherries to the mix as well as the final 2.5 cups of sugar. Again stir and cover..
- Stir daily for 10 days..
- On day 30 your fruit is ready. Drain off the juice BUT DO NOT THROW IT OUT!.
- With 1.5 cups of the juice you can start the whole process again. Give some to a friend as a starter as well.
- Enjoy!!!.
- Delicious as topping on some ice cream or use in a Friendship Cake.
Depending on the fruits I think a Pumpkin Bread would be great. Or even a soda bread would be good. They tend to be a bit dry so the moist fruits Personally I would make a yeast bread, a sweet dough and it might be more like a Panatone. Great for breakfast then a French Toast when it gets a bit stale. Brandied Fruit Recipe Fermented Fruit Recipe Fermented Foods Friendship Cake Friendship Bread Recipe Bread Brandied Fruit Starter.
