"Charles Gifford" > wrote in
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> "Daisy" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I read a newspaper article yesterday written by a non-USA person, who
>> had experienced life in a Brtitsh-style culture for a while. The
>> article was all about fruit cakes.
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> One thing I've noticed in this thread is that, while the thread is
> titled "Christmas Cake", the conversation so far is about fruit cake,
> plum cake or similar. For me, a Christmas Cake is similar to a fruit
> cake, but has layer(s) of marzipan and nice crunchy icing over that.


Here, Christmas cake is a dark fruit cake made at Christmas time <g>. It
may sometimes be iced with marzipan and royal icing, but not necessarily. I
never ice mine. I think I've mostly only eaten fruitcake with marzipan and
royal icing when it's wedding cake. That's a traditional wedding cake here,
and what I had at my wedding, although nowadays people often have different
cakes.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia