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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Irish >> Irish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. | 2. Grease a 9-inch tube pan. | 3. Beat butter until soft. | 4. Add eggs and molasses and beat till fluffy. | 5. Add chopped figs (try to use good quality figs), grated lemon rind, and buttermilk. | 6. In another bowl combine all the rest of the ingredients (all dry ingredients). | 7. Pour dry ingredients into fig mixture and stir well. | 8. Pour into tube pan and cook for about an hour or until toothpick comes out pretty clean. | 9. After about 15 minutes, try to dislodge cake and put out onto a baking rack. | 10. Soak enough cheese cloth to go around the cake a couple times in brandy. | 11. When cake is cool, wrap it up well and soak for 24 hours. | 12. Serve with hard sauce. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1/2	cup		684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
egg	2			143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51
molasses	1	cup		977.3	251.8401	0.0	0.337
fig	2	cups		-	-	-	-
lemon	1/2	teaspoon	grated rind	0.6404	0.2058	0.0243	0.0066
buttermilk	1	cup		-	-	-	-
purpose flour	2 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
baking soda	1/2	teaspoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
baking powder	2	teaspoons		4.876	2.5484	0.0	0.0
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cinnamon	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
nutmeg	1/2	teaspoon		5.775	0.5422	0.0642	0.3994
brandy	2	cups		-	-	-	-
cheesecloth				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.