I should have posted this at Christmas but just never got to it.

I like fruit cake but hate the citron. Can dried fruit be substituted for the citron - like cherries and apples and cranberries, etc. If so, is it the same measurements as citron? I got the rum part down - lol.

Thank you, in advance, to any who reply.

You betcha they can be substituted and I know it tastes a lot better than the citron any day. Anytime you want to experiment with substitutions just think about how dense a dried fruit is and you can use the same measurements as originally called for. I took expensive cooking lessons once years ago even though I'm a great cook myself. Learned a lot of little tricks on substitutions. One grandmother was a professional cook and the other grandmother was a cook to a family of 9 kids. My mother would mess up boiled water. Liked your rum cake recipe. LOL

I do like the cherries and cranberries in the rum cake myself.

Sure can, in fact it's a lot better with dried or fresh ( I use dates, raisins, cherries, pineapple, pears, apples and cranberries in mine) and lots of rum,MMMMM, you can use fresh fruit, dried fruit, candied fruit, nuts and spices, when I've had to make this I used about 1-2 pounds of mixed fruit.

A friend sent me a monastery fruit cake for Christmas. It was delicious and contained only pineapples, raisins, walnuts, and cherries.

Thank you three sooooo much. I enjoy fruit cake but citron makes me shiver. That Monastery Cake sounds delicious too!

Shy, here's the page for that cake --

Monastery Greetings (http://www.monasterygreetings.com/Products.asp?PCID=257)

Thanks, WG. Does not surprise me that that would sell out quickly. Bookmarked the page for next Christmas.