On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:19:11 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"U.S. Janet B." wrote in message
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>On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:17:20 -0000, "Ophelia" >
>wrote:
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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:
>>> >
>>> >>> 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.
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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.
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>>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
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>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,
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>https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...00&vet=1&w=385
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>or
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>http://tinyurl.com/z8uoxsf
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>Dundee cakes are lighter and have no topping other then almonds.
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>https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...AubPgAagyJ34CA
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>or
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>http://tinyurl.com/z9k5dus
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>We were never keen on all that icing though. I enjoy mine .. whichever
>cake, with cheese.
I liked the looks of the Dundee cake the best. The Christmas cake
interior looked much like a good old-fashioned fruitcake (here) would.
They are already rich and with some sort of frosting I would guess
that just a sliver would be plenty because of richness.
Janet US