"U.S. Janet B." wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:17:20 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
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>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:
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>> >On 2016-11-11 2:34 PM, wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:23:54 -0500, Gary > wrote:
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>> >>> 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.
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>> That is not true at all, maybe you bought too cheaply, good dark fruit
>> cake can be had from bakeries at a price.
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>Here's an article about Americans' relationship with fruitcake:
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><http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/fruit-cake-hate-bad_n_2293216.html>
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>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.
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>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
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>it's a few years since I have made any too. I used to make full rich
>Christmas cakes when all the family was at home. If I do it at all now, I
>make a Dundee cake.
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>http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/m...al-dundee-cake
that is a delicious looking cake. The golden caster sugar will be a
difficult find here. Google research says I should be o.k. with
superfine sugar. What are Christmas cakes? Is that fruitcake or
something else?
Janet US
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Christmas cakes are very rich cakes and usually decorated with marzipan and
icing,
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...00&vet=1&w=385
or
http://tinyurl.com/z8uoxsf
Dundee cakes are lighter and have no topping other then almonds.
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...AubPgAagyJ34CA
or
http://tinyurl.com/z9k5dus
We were never keen on all that icing though. I enjoy mine .. whichever
cake, with cheese.
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