Even if you think you don't like fruitcake, I'll bet you'll love this heirloom recipe. It can be made into mini loaves as pictured, bar or drop cookies or even as a bundt cake!
Old Fashioned Mini Fruitcakes
This None Such Old-Fashioned Fruitcake recipe dates back to at least the 1960s, and maybe even before that, since None Such Brand has actually been around since 1885. This was based on an old label recipe from the None Such Mincemeat product, and it's the recipe that my mother-in-law used year after year when she baked up her holiday fruitcakes.
Let me tell all of you fruitcake haters. You've not had fruitcake until you taste a homemade fruitcake!
It is delicious!
Like most of the older "lost" recipes, this recipe has evolved over the years, so I've included both my mother in law's revised version, the original None Such Fruitcake recipe, and some additional variations - including fruitcake bars, drop cookies and a bundt cake!
If you are unfamiliar with mincemeat, don't be scared - while back in the day, homemade mincemeat had a lot of meat in it, these days store-bought mincemeat has only the tiniest bit of negligible beef in it, so that if you didn't look at the label, you would never know it. As a mincemeat product today, we are primarily talking about a group of spices, typically cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and mace, that are usually mixed with some kind of dried fruit. For the None Such brand, that is a bit of citrus peel, along with raisins and apples.
The None Such brand is getting harder to find at grocery stores, but we have it at our local Walmart, mostly seasonally. As far as adaptations, the original None Such Fruitcake recipe calls for 2-1/2 cups of all purpose flour and 1 teaspoon of baking soda, but my mother in law prefers to use self rising flour.
The original recipe also calls for one pound of mixed candied fruit, but she likes using just the red and green candied cherries alone. I also noticed that the None Such brand mincemeat used to be sold in a 28-ounce jar, but like a lot of other products on our store shelves, the size has shrunk now to 27 ounces. The recipe doesn't seem to have suffered for it thankfully.
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