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My favourite Christmas season is approaching, the most wonderful time of the year. Soaking dry fruits for making rich fruit cake/plum cake is a tradition for Christians across the world. For a rich and delicious fruit cake it is a must to pre-soak fruits at least one month before Christmas. Like many traditions and family recipes, this process of soaking fruits for Christmas cake is different in each household. If you get into action this weekend, you still have a good month to let your fruits soak before you bake your cake a little earlier and then feed it with rum for a couple of weeks.
The most popular method is to soak the fruits three months ahead of December. The cake is then baked in the last week of November (Stir-up Sunday and keeping it moist by drip-feeding the cake with alcohol, every week till Christmas.
Another popular method is to soak the fruits 5-6 weeks before Christmas and bake a week before Christmas. This cake needs alcohol to be added just once, mid-week before Christmas Day. I usually follow this method.