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Post by mstreepsucks on Nov 21, 2019 13:54:39 GMT
I like it.
a fruitcake baked in 1878 was kept as an heirloom by a family . jay leno sampled it in 2003 on tonight show.
true story.
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 21, 2019 16:32:27 GMT
My mom made a Christmas fruitcake with modification. Along with dried cherries, she also included chopped pecans and chocolate chips. It was heavenly.
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Post by nicoroni on Nov 21, 2019 17:37:21 GMT
I don't particularly care for the in a can heavy fruitcake,but I do like Panettone,which is a lighter sort of fruitcake.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Nov 21, 2019 18:39:40 GMT
I don't like fruitcake but when I was in London for my cousin's wedding a few decades ago, his wedding cake was a fruitcake covered in Marzipan which I also don't like. It was more edible than the American version of fruitcake and I got a few bites down me, I also was served Dundee cake in Scotland which I also had to politely eat but I hope to never have to eat fruitcake again. I've read that fruitcake is the traditional wedding cake in the U.K.
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Post by MCDemuth on Nov 21, 2019 18:59:04 GMT
I like fruitcake...
It amazes me that so many people think that no one does... If no one did, then why is still made and sold? A gag gift? Seems unlikely that food companies would continue to make it, if no one actually ate it.
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Post by Catman on Nov 21, 2019 19:00:10 GMT
As a rule, no. But Cataunt makes one which is quite tasty. She's good a desserts.
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Post by divtal on Nov 21, 2019 19:56:23 GMT
I like it.
a fruitcake baked in 1878 was kept as an heirloom by a family . jay leno sampled it in 2003 on tonight show.
true story. It's OK. I enjoy a small piece, but that's about all that I want of anything sweet, in one sitting. A whole one would, probably, last that long in my house. A former colleague's father-in-law was a baker in Chicago. Every year he sent a huge tin of Fruitcake Cookies, which she shared with the staff. They were round, and a bit larger than an average gumball. Delicious!
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Post by MCDemuth on Nov 21, 2019 21:40:52 GMT
A former colleague's father-in-law was a baker in Chicago. Every year he sent a huge tin of Fruitcake Cookies, which she shared with the staff. They were round, and a bit larger than an average gumball. Delicious! Yeah, that does sound good... I've heard of other cooks, modifying other more well known recipes... like from cakes to cookies... To make something better and less known... and I seem to recall trying at least one of those products (Which I can't remember what it was... LOL!) decades ago, and I too found it was better that the more well known product... Perhaps they add an ingredient, or add more of an existing one... But it seems to make all the difference.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Nov 21, 2019 21:41:59 GMT
I love it, but I get the ones made by the Trappist Monks at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, which are among the best, IMHO.
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Post by enigma72 on Nov 22, 2019 0:48:51 GMT
yes! Portuguese fruitcake
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Post by mmexis on Nov 22, 2019 1:14:08 GMT
love fruitcake. No nuts, maraschino cherries. No marzipan, booze if possible. I ate a jamaican fruit cake once that had been baked in September and had been pickled in rum ever since.
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Post by mmexis on Nov 22, 2019 1:15:12 GMT
I don't particularly care for the in a can heavy fruitcake,but I do like Panettone,which is a lighter sort of fruitcake. fruitcake in a can??? I can't imagine!
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Post by nicoroni on Nov 22, 2019 3:29:22 GMT
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Post by mmexis on Nov 22, 2019 4:20:22 GMT
Thanks for the link but because I'm outside US, can't see the video OR access the website. I'll google it.
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Post by mmexis on Nov 22, 2019 4:27:03 GMT
Sorry, read "in a tin' and thought like a soup tin. I don't mind it in that kind of tin to preserve it for shipping. Better than the ones wrapped in cellophane and already dried out. In any case, as soon as you get it take it out of the plastic. If I baked one at home I would store it in exactly that kind of tin like I do my homemade cookies.
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Post by nicoroni on Nov 22, 2019 15:25:05 GMT
When I said can I guess I meant tin.Growing up the only fruitcake we ever had came in a red tin.I can't recall if we bought it or somebody gave it to us. What I do recall is it had so many jellybeans or gumdrops,nuts and other stuff I found it to be inedible. I never as an adult considered buying one until one year I saw one and bought it as a gift for my sister.The next christmas she gave it back to me,never having been opened.We passed that can of uranium 238 weight stuff back and forth for close to 20 years until it somehow got lost when one of us moved.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Nov 22, 2019 18:23:27 GMT
actually...never had it!
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 22, 2019 18:33:14 GMT
I don`t like cake at all.
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Post by sweetpea on Nov 22, 2019 18:53:48 GMT
I like fruitcake... It amazes me that so many people think that no one does... If no one did, then why is still made and sold? A gag gift? Seems unlikely that food companies would continue to make it, if no one actually ate it. I get orders for it all the time around now through Christmas...along with stolen.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Nov 22, 2019 22:00:33 GMT
I like fruitcake... It amazes me that so many people think that no one does... If no one did, then why is still made and sold? A gag gift? Seems unlikely that food companies would continue to make it, if no one actually ate it. I get orders for it all the time around now through Christmas...along with stolen. Do you own a bakery sweetpea?
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