Recipe for Dark Fruit Cake 
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Yield:
1 Servings
Ingredients:
Amount Ingredient
1 cup Shortening
1 cup Granulated sugar
4 x Eggs
1 cup Molasses
1 cup Strong coffee or rum
1/2 cup All purpose flour
1 tsp Each of: salt, nutmeg, baking soda and cinnamon
1/2 tsp Cloves
1 cup Strawberry jam
8 oz Cherries, glazed
8 oz Mixed fruit
Instructions:
Instructions: The recipe in fact never even heard of the bakery but I do have a very good one taken from my Simply Delicious Cooking 2 cookbook, enjoy. Chef K

Cream the shortening and sugar, add beaten eggs, molasses and coffee / rum.

Mix well. Add spices to flour and add to mixture. Add strawberry jam and fruit last. Divide into two, five pound pans which have been greased and floured. Bake for 3 hours in a preheated oven at 275 - 300 F (150 - 160 C).

NOTE: If rum is used instead of coffee allow the fruit to soak in it overnight for a better flavour.

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