Vinar Terta (Icelandic Fruit Cake) - Mrs Sherman Olson

Vinar Terta (Icelandic Fruit Cake)

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup shortening
3 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup sweet milk*
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Mix sugar, shortening, and eggs. Beat well. Sift dry ingredients together. Alternate the sweet milk, vanilla and flour when mixing these into the sugar misture. Add flour - enough to roll as for cookies. Chill dough a couple of hours or overnight. Cut dough into  as many parts as you want layers. 12 - 16. Roll each part very thin (like pastry). Place on top of an inverted layer cake pan and trimp edge to make a circle or place pan on dough and cut out circle. Place circle of dough inside the cake tine and back as many at a time as you have pans. Ba about 20 min. or until light brown at 350 deg. Remove from pan with a spatula and coold while you bake remaining layers.
Spread the fruit filling between the layers as you stke them on top of each other. Store at least 24 hours before serving. Cut small pieces to serve. Keeps moist a long time. May be frozen but should be cut up in quarters or smaller portions.

Fruit Filling:
1 1/2 cups cold water
1 1/2 cups dates or raisins ground
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tsps flour
Boil in heavy pan until thick. Cool before spreading.
- - Mrs Sherman Olson
Trinity Treasures, Trinity Lutheran Church, Blue Earth, MN 1966