Fruitcake

[melchar]

I make a very nice fruitcake with dried fruit [not candied] and brandy. Today was the 'take off the cheesecloth, wrap in fresh cheesecloth' day and since I'd had the suggestion last year, I cut the 2 mondo cakes into (8) 1-lb cakes and re-wrapped each separately.

Had a nibble of one. Already yummy. Hmmm, not all have been assigned homes that they go to for xmas yet ^_^

Comments

[pbsjones.livejournal.com]

At the end of an episode of California Heartland you can see me saying "Oooh, I LOVE fruitcake!" It's quite amusing, because it comes at the end of a montage of the reporter offering fruitcake to several people who cringe and pull away. What's wrong with those people?!

[melchar.livejournal.com]

There are some nasty ones that are heavy on citron. But there are -wonderful- ones. I have 3 recipes that are as different as can be - and all delicious.

I speculate that the slam on fruitcake has people shying away from them. You ask, 'would you like to sample some Ukranian honey cake?' Or 'want a bit of organic fruit gingerbread?' and you'll get trampled. IMO the word 'fruitcake' has been badly villified.