Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Grease a 9-inch tube pan.
- Beat butter until soft.
- Add eggs and molasses and beat till fluffy.
- Add chopped figs (try to use good quality figs), grated lemon rind, and buttermilk.
- In another bowl combine all the rest of the ingredients (all dry ingredients).
- Pour dry ingredients into fig mixture and stir well.
- Pour into tube pan and cook for about an hour or until toothpick comes out pretty clean.
- After about 15 minutes, try to dislodge cake and put out onto a baking rack.
- Soak enough cheese cloth to go around the cake a couple times in brandy.
- When cake is cool, wrap it up well and soak for 24 hours.
- Serve with hard sauce.