On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:29:07 -0500, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 1/20/2017 9:43 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2017-01-20 9:01 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> I love a whiskey soaked fruitcake. Haven't had one in a long time,
>>> I don't see them in the stores.
>>>
>>
>> Speaking of fruitcake and stores. I make a great light fruit cake but I
>> don't bother with dark because it has a lot of nuts in it and my system
>> does not like nuts. However, we have quality bakery in town where I buy
>> my bread. A week or two before Christmas I was in there and saw that he
>> was selling dark fruitcake so I bought a chunk of it. It was very good.
>> Next year I will get some more, but I will buy it early and feed it some
>> brandy.
>
>That's the way to go, make it or buy one and doctor it. As much as
>I like a good fruitcake, I rarely have it, can't remember how long
>it's been.
>
>nancy

I always have one small fruit cake at Xmas. A friends mother makes
great ones (though she doesn't use alcohol, I pickle it before I eat
it) and every year I give him a catnip mouse for her cat (hand knitted
and home grown catnip) and she sends me the fruit cake