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Newsgroups: net.cooks
Title: Friendship Cake
Article-I.D.: purdue.507
Posted: Fri Mar 11 13:00:52 1983
Received: Sat Mar 12 08:47:45 1983


In reference to the person who was looking for the "starter" for the
Friendship Cake, if it is the one I am thinking about, you can easily
make your own.  All you need is a large (the exact size depends upon
how big a batch you are interested in making) crock or glass jar or
some such thing.  Make sure it can be covered in some way.  To make the
"starter", simply take a 500 ml bottle of brandy, the flavor you pick
is up to you, pour it into the crock or jar.  Then you add fresh fruit,
and an equal amount of white sugar.  Stir the mixture well, cover and
let stand.  It must be stirred every day or mold will develop on the top.
Fruit and sugar can be added as desired, but after the last addition of
this combination, it will probably be a week or two until the "starter"
is ready to use.  This is a nice recipe to make during the summer months
as fruit can be added as it is in season, and by the end of the summer you
have a nice batch of syrup and fruit that can be put into jars and saved
for the winter months.  It is very good over vanilla ice cream.  The
various fruits also play a part in the kind of syrup you end up with, ie
melons tend to "melt" into the syrup whereas blueberries don't.  After
your syrup is finished, it is the syrup minus the fruit that is passed onto
your friends for the cake.  Enjoy!!

                               Sue Piotrowski.