Fruitcake thread.

[RICHARD]

I was thinking about fruitcake the other day and now I want some.

I was thinking of how many people will actually see a fruitcake in the next few weeks?

Post your photos....

I am looking for the FC's with

The green cherries, the whole walnuts across the top, extra points awarded for a intact loaf amongst a Christmas buffet.

[pomtzu]

No pictures, and normally I find most FC to be quite nasty. However, years ago, Sears, Roebuck used to carry them in their Christmas Wish Book. I never would have bought one for myself, but my BIL bought us one, one year, and it was delicious. It was a butter FC, and didn't have a lot of the nasty yellow and green candied fruit in it - it was mostly cherries and nuts. I never patronize Sears, but I wonder if they still carry those? That was the only FC that I would ever eat.

[Cinder & Smoke]

I was thinking about fruitcake the other day ...

extra points awarded for a intact loaf amongst a Christmas buffet.

One Fruitcake thinkin about another one!

Reminds me of the first neighborhood where we lived in Mt. Lebanon ...
Dad insisted there were 6 Fruitcakes that were in constant circulation
as "gifts" over the Christmas Season. We'd get one, re-wrap it with a
new card,and *I* would be sent out to re-gift it to one of the neighbors.


You could *spot* the Fruitcake Delivery Kid a mile away - doing a slow shuffle
and trying to hide a brightly wrapped cake-sized BRICK.

We went to a neighborhood *gathurin* at someone's house ... lottsa yummie cookies
and finger foods, as well as TWO Fruitcake Bricks on display - both virgins
with not a knife mark on either one. Dad jumped into action ...

He grabbed the knife and sawed off a corner of each Brick and set the pieces on
Mom's plate, two more (smaller) pieces went on his plate, THEN he carved
off some "larger" pieces which he left beside the now "used" Fruitcakes.

He >smirked< for hours and kept bragging to Mom that he "taken two Bricks
out of the gift rotation that year"! And he kept *hinting* to the other
guests to "Try the Fruitcake, they're delicious this year."

Good Ole Dad!

[Freedom]

Never met a USA - made fruitcake I liked. We always got ours from England.

One step in making it: soak it in brandy for 4 months, turning it periodically.

Last step: cover the top with marzipan.

YUM!

[RICHARD]

http://www.slashfood.com/2009/12/09/...2Ffruitcake%2F

[Karen]

Gosh, I soooo miss fruitcake. But as I am now allergic to everything but the candied pineapple some kinds have, and the cake part itself, it's just not the same. Sigh. I see it in the store and avert my eyes.

[kokopup]

I haven't had fruit cake in years, but I remember the only cake I liked was made by Claxton. All of their cakes had lots of pecans and walnuts and had a Pound Cake batter base.

www.claxtonfruitcake.com/