Grandma’s Truly Delicious Fruitcake

Good recipe!
However, it needs to "cure" for a couple of weeks before you eat it.
For a non-alcoholic fruit cake, wrap tightly in foil and store in the refrigerator for at least 2 weeks. You'll be amazed at the flavor! Make right after Thanksgiving for Christmas use. The longer it's stored, the better it tastes!
You can also sub in dried apricot, raisins, apple if you don't like candied fruit.

Made this and ate the entire fruitcake by myself. It was delicious. Will make it again as soon as I get the candied fruit.

Nut meats (the meat of a nut) means you can use a variety of different nuts. Nuts in fruit cake should be coarsely chopped. Adding rum before the cake is baked will result in very little, if any, rum flavor. The traditional method for adding rum to your fruitcake is to wrap it in cheesecloth soaked in rum and let it marinate for 4 weeks. Once a week, remove the cheesecloth, drench in rum again and re-wrap cheesecake. Repeat for 4 weeks. This will give you a genuine rum flavored fruit cake. Bake around Thanksgiving and it will be ready by Christmas.