On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:10:01 -0700, Graham > wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:14:53 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> On 2020-11-24 9:49 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>> I liked fruitcake when I was a kid and anything sweet was good.
>>>
>>> I stopped liking fruitcake when I grew up.
>>
>> I always liked it.
>>
>>>
>>> I resumed liking fruitcake when I started making light fruitcake using
>>> dried fruit rather than candied fruit. I haven't bothered making it in years
>>> since I have nobody to give it to, my husband doesn't like it, and I
>>> don't need the calories.
>>
>> Between the butter and the sugar I can't eat it anymore. I used to make
>> two batches each year, eat some and give some away. Actually, I ate a
>> lot of it and Christmas season usually saw a 5 pound weight gain. This
>> year I will make just one batch and give it to by brother and a few
>> friends who love it.
I love it but stopped making one for Xmas after David died cos I could
have easily eaten a whole one myself with aforementioned weight gain.
Now I have a friend who makes wonderful fruit cake and she will
deliver it on Friday, we'll have lunch and I will give her a pair of
hand knit socks and a knitted catnip mouse for her cat.

I make mince pies at Xmas as my kids wouldn't feel it was Xmas without
them.
>
>I used to make the traditional, heavy xmas cake, as many as six at a time
>for gifts, injecting them with brandy using a hypodermic. But, like mince
>pies, most will eat a token piece at xmas and the rest goes uneaten. I love
>it but it's too calorific.