Dried fruits can be wonderful baked into cakes. An easy way to cut them up, yet still leave them chunky, is to oil a pair of scissors and snip away. Each time the fruit builds up on the scissors blade,run a razor blade scraper along the sides of the scissors and add a film of oil to them. Begin again. Don't forget to re-hydrate those dried fruits before you bake. Use any liquid with flavor. Heat the fruit and liquid over a flame or in the micro-wave oven. Off heat, allow the fruits to sit and macerate until they are plump and luscious. They can also be re-hydrated in a strainer placed over boiling water. This method takes longer and some of the fruit juices are lost in the boiling water. (That flavored water could be used to bake Ham. See recipe on this blog.)
c.Nancy Bookman Hoffman
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