On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 7:02:59 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:25:24 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >On 2016-11-11 2:34 PM, wrote:
> >> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:23:54 -0500, Gary > wrote:
> >
> >>> I wonder if I can buy a store brand fruit cake, then pour some bourbon
> >>> or brandy on it to age for a month or so? Would that work?
> >>
> >> Definitely would, make sure you pick up dark fruit cake though.
> >>
> >
> >Sorry, but my experience is that most store bought dark fruit cake is so
> >horrible that no amount of booze can resurrect it. I must have been
> >lucky to have had a mother and grandmothers who made wonderful
> >fruitcakes. When I talk about fruitcake with people my take is that most
> >of those who hate it had had only store bought.
>
> That is not true at all, maybe you bought too cheaply, good dark fruit
> cake can be had from bakeries at a price.

Here's an article about Americans' relationship with fruitcake:

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/fruit-cake-hate-bad_n_2293216.html>

The fruitcake that most of us have had has been mail-ordered from some
giant bakery. It uses the cheapest ingredients. The best ones
(besides the ones I've made myself) simply taste like a big blog
of moist sugar.

I haven't made fruitcake in years. I have a nice recipe for light
fruitcake. I substitute dried fruit for all of the candied fruit,
and soak the fruit in some booze to rehydrate it a bit before
baking. It's delicious.

Cindy Hamilton