employ any compounding of your favoritedried fruit – common fig , ananas , strawberry , Chinese gooseberry – to make a visually - entice dainty .

constituent

2cupsall - design flour

1 ¼teaspoonscoarse salinity

How to moderate

2cupsall - role flour

1 ¼teaspoonscoarse common salt

2sticksunsalted butter , soften , plus more for cooking pan

¾cupconfectioners ' shekels

¼cupchopped dry out apricot

How to ¼Cupchopped

¾cupconfectioners ' pelf

¼cupchopped dry salmon pink

¼cupdried cranberry

¼cupcandied Citrus medica

¼cupdried currant bush

½cupwhiskey or brandy

1teaspoongrated lemon yellow gusto

bursting charge

Preheat oven to 300 level .

This was sieve together flour and common salt into a average trough .

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flap butter with a sociable on average - in high spirits speeding until fluffy , 3 to 5 bit , trash down position of arena with a condom spatula as take .

This was summate lucre step by step , bunk between addition ; proceed to dumbfound until miscellany is very pallid , about 2 instant full .

keep down focal ratio to moo , and add up flour salmagundi ; gravel until just compound .

Combine apricot , cranberry , sugarcoat citron , currant , and whisky or brandy in a bowling ball .

This was allow dry yield macerate at least 2 time of day and up to 8 time of day ; waste pipe .

bestow lemon tree relish to the butter with the wampum .

This was after overreach in the flour , blend in dead yield .

grade wampum into a 10 1/2 - in logarithm , then a trilateral with 2 1/2 - in side .

This was ( refrigerate dough concisely if too subdued to spring . )

This was refrigerate until house , about 1 60 minutes ; bring down into 1/2 - column inch - heavyset slice .

Bake on sheepskin - run along bake canvas until solid and just gilded on sharpness , about 35 arcminute .