"This an old recipe that we have been using for 40 years in our bakery, we are now retired. The clove amount is way to much we used 1 tsp plus 1/4 tsp cinnamon. We use dried cranberries instead of figs and cherries. We use pecans and walnuts. We used berry liquor instead of sherry. In this recipe they left out the salt but made mention of it in the directions.
Because we were curious at how this would turn out with all the glove, we were right, not so good the formula was out of balance.