tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post3175754550857067519..comments2024-03-26T17:55:50.539-04:00Comments on Cranky old man: FRUITCAKEjoehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520161706680568508noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-69857165213672510412012-08-18T09:33:04.691-04:002012-08-18T09:33:04.691-04:00That is so true. The poor much maligned fruitcake ...That is so true. The poor much maligned fruitcake has passed quietly into oblivion with few to mourn it. I didn't like it much as a kid - except my nana's, because hers was really dense and moist and yummy. But these days I do quite like a fruitcake, but no one much makes them anymore. The bullies have won.Jackie Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06322613989851869319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-76397456413102523732011-11-30T10:07:26.721-05:002011-11-30T10:07:26.721-05:00The bullying of the Christmas Fruit Cake must ceas...The bullying of the Christmas Fruit Cake must cease immediately. We cannot have discontented, materialistic Grandma's, Mom, Aunts and Cousins buying us anything at Christmas---it is only fair that they part their loving care into these fruitcakes for the rest of us to enjoy!!<br /><br />I'm with you all the way!! Cheers, JennJennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07559573562599754752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-47801034057422259442011-11-29T20:01:32.485-05:002011-11-29T20:01:32.485-05:00I must be an emotional train wreck right now becau...I must be an emotional train wreck right now because this post makes me choke up. Poor, poor Christmas Fruitcake:(Katrinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446770591516588794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-6811748744033372872011-11-29T18:41:30.988-05:002011-11-29T18:41:30.988-05:00My husband's Aunty Polly made us fruit cake fo...My husband's Aunty Polly made us fruit cake for our wedding cake. I have never liked fruitcake so, although I was grateful for her effort, I ate the banana cake she had offered alongside it.<br /><br />A year passed, and it was our anniversary. We pulled the top part of our wedding fruitcake out of the freezer and had a little with coffee. It was DIVINE, the best fruitcake I have ever tasted. I raved about that cake to Aunty Polly every time I saw her thereafter. Sadly Aunty Polly has since passed away, but I think the recipe was handed down to one of her nieces. You remind me that I really should get in contact and see if I can get a copy of it.<br /><br />I do however have the recipe for my Dad's famous Aberfoil Christmas Pudding, all the way from Scotland. If my pleading and begging doesn't get me Aunty Polly's recipe, I can always start a new tradition of the Aberfoil Pud.Shelly - Tropical Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00464868349672755774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-9425680253543639512011-11-29T18:04:42.936-05:002011-11-29T18:04:42.936-05:00I love fruitcake! I too have been ashamed to admit...I love fruitcake! I too have been ashamed to admit it -- until now. Thank you for setting me free!Michael Annhttp://thinkinginmyheadma.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-70911774813451018082011-11-29T15:32:40.523-05:002011-11-29T15:32:40.523-05:00Well, as I mentioned over on my blog, I am one of ...Well, as I mentioned over on my blog, I am one of the fruitcake lovers. The only reason I don't make it anymore is that I am the only one I know who <i>does</i> like it and I need a fruitcake in the house as much as you need a bottle of Crown Royale.<br /><br />Thanks for sticking up for the much maligned sweet, though!Bev Sykeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16794928133704720689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-24078940874138127432011-11-29T14:52:27.878-05:002011-11-29T14:52:27.878-05:00I have never bullied the fruitcake..... But that m...I have never bullied the fruitcake..... But that might be because I have never been given, or even tasted the dessert....danneromerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09268830006681589842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-968059214758329257.post-30550635387263689872011-11-29T12:53:30.556-05:002011-11-29T12:53:30.556-05:00Cranky
The traditional Christmas Fruit Cake is st...Cranky<br /><br />The traditional Christmas Fruit Cake is still very much a tradition in the UK, although not as gifts.<br /><br />Christmas Cakes are baked sometime in October and November and sometimes early December and then they are wrapped in aluminium foil and given weekly feeds of brandy or a mix of brandy and orange juice etc. on the run up to Christmas. Then just before the big day they are iced and decorated, and eaten as a traditional dessert on Christmas Day and every day afterwards until gone.<br /><br />They are big cakes using lbs of fruit, and they are truly delicious.<br /><br />If you would like a traditional English Christmas Cake receipe, just let me know and I will pass on my Mothers long used recipe to you.<br /><br />Sadly, because of the moving and wedding etc etc, we will not have Christmas cake either this year, but next year, we will most definitely be having one.<br /><br />Lou :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com