English Dried Fruit Cake

This dried fruit cake is totally unlike the usual English fruitcake, which uses glacéed fruit. I adapted it from a recipe that my talented friend and fellow blogger Kate Coldrick gave me during my first visit to her in Devon, England. It is the one my dad requested that I send most often. One of its many virtues is that it ships well and has a long shelf life, especially if you pour as much rum onto it as my dad did!