Brandied Fruit Start (for friendship cake). These useful spices can be used to cook so many different meals! The brandied fruit should be kept refrigerated, and can be served with ice cream, yogurt or pound cake. You can also use the brandied fruit in a cake mix or I had enough fruit to make three cakes, and enough juice to start all over again.

Do not delay adding fruit for more than one or two days past schedule. IMPORTANT: To keep the starter going Search on "friendship fruit" to find recipes that use this. There is also a Friendship Sourdough Starter. You can cook Brandied Fruit Start (for friendship cake) using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Brandied Fruit Start (for friendship cake)

1. It’s 1 gallon of glass container with lid.
2. It’s 2 can of Peaches.
3. Prepare 1 can of pineapple chunks.
4. You need 1 can of fruit cocktail.
5. It’s 2 of each maraschino cheries.
6. It’s 1 packages of yeast.
7. It’s 2 1/2 cup of sugar.
8. Prepare 2 1/2 cup of sugar.
9. You need 2 1/2 cup of sugar.

Make delicious friendship cake with these homemade brandied fruit starter, it's going to impress everyone who has a taste of it. Another popular use for brandied fruit is a friendship cake. If you've ever made sourdough bread and given some of your starter to a friend, the concept here is the This is a long process that needs to be nurtured every day, so starting with brandied fruit instead will make the process much easier. A tried-and-true family recipe for Friendship Fruit Cakes and fruit cake Starter.

Brandied Fruit Start (for friendship cake) instructions

1. No the sugar listed 3 times is not a mistake as you'll see..
2. Start by dumping the first of your 2.5 cup sugar batches into the glass container.
3. Add the yeast package and well as the 2 cans of peaches..
4. Stir the mixture till all the sugar and yeast are well blended. and loosely cover the container..
5. Stir daily for 10 days..
6. On day 10 add the cans of fruit cocktail & pineapple. Also add 2.5 cups of sugar. Stir and cover..
7. Stir daily for 10 days.
8. On day 20 drain the juice from the maraschino cheries and slice them in half..
9. Add the sliced, drained cherries to the mix as well as the final 2.5 cups of sugar. Again stir and cover..
10. Stir daily for 10 days..
11. On day 30 your fruit is ready. Drain off the juice BUT DO NOT THROW IT OUT!.
12. With 1.5 cups of the juice you can start the whole process again. Give some to a friend as a starter as well.
13. Enjoy!!!.
14. Delicious as topping on some ice cream or use in a Friendship Cake.

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. And then you actually sit down and read the recipe and start to feel all superior because you see how. You might know it as Brandied Friendship Fruit or Fermented Friendship Fruit and chances are your mom (or maybe just a younger you) once had You see, this fruitcake is a little bit of a project. It takes seven weeks from start to finish – three weeks for the brandied starter and four more for the candied. See more ideas about fruit cake, brandied fruit cake recipe, friendship cake.