"graham" wrote in message news
On 11/12/2016 6:17 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> "Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
> ...
>
> 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
>
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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.
>
> http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/m...al-dundee-cake
>
>
Our village baker made excellent rich fruit cakes and always had some
maturing. When one was bought, he made another to keep the stack going.
However, his wife recommended a particular national brand of Dundee Cake
because it had angelica in it - and it was very good.
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Nice
I always had a couple of fruit cakes on hand. I used to bake them
and put them by for the next year (or the year after)
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