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.

Apparently fruit cakes (the genuine version please people LOL) are
virtually unknown in the USA. I didn't know that.

A long-standing British tradition is the fruit cake: Dundee cake is a
light fruit cake (light in fruit content), and a Sultana cake is
similar but the only fruit are sultanas. Rich Christmas or Wedding
cake is something else again.

The hearty wedding cake, or Christmas cake, is a rich fruit cake, made
with lots oif eggs and brandied fruit, not so much flour and no
raising agents. It is moist with fruit and laden with flavour. It
is absolute heaven.

There are many uses for this fruit cake other than serving it in small
wedges for afternoon tea around Christmas time. You can heat it and
serve it with brandy custard as a winter pudding; you can chill it
and serve a wedge with vanilla ice cream any time.

I make a big big Christmas fruit cake every year and save some for
winter, but it is usually all gone by May!


Daisy.

Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.