Does Anybody Really Like Fruitcake?

[MOW]

As we go into the holiday season , I was wondering if anyone has ever received a fruitcake as a gift ? Does anybody really like fruitcake?

 

 

MOW

Edited November 19, 2005 by MOW

[Cynthia]

Oh yes, I've received them.... no, don't like them. BU T, fruitcake cookies are a different animal altogether!!! Yummy.

[AletheiaRivers]

My mom makes a fruitcake that doesn't involve candied fruit in any way whatsoever.

 

It is a basic zucchini style bread, with peaches, pineapple, apples and cranberries. It's amazingly good.

[Carl]

I LOVE fruitcake. Making Fruitcake is one of my holiday traditions.

[flowperson]

As long as it doesn't contain citron I like it pretty well, especially if it has lots of pecans and cherries.

 

The best one I ever had was one from a bakery in Colleyville, Texas (believe that's the right name). Evidently they're famous all over the world for their fruitcakes, and ship out huge numbers of them each year.

 

flow....

[October's Autumn]

I've had good fruitcake...

[des]

Yes, I have heard some others claim that they like fruitcake. I am guessing that actual real, homemade type fruitcake is prob. very good. The only sort of that I have ever had was full of citron. I don't think I like that much. I do think that fruitcake that is usually given and received is really good as a makeshift hammer. I remember an episode of David Letterman where he "bowls" or knocks down groups of holidays things with fruitcakes-- stacked wine glasses, Xmas trees, etc. hilarious!

 

--des

[FredP]

Long live fruitcake! Down with the anti-fruitcake propaganda that infests commercials all throughout the Christmas season!

[AletheiaRivers]

Long live fruitcake! Down with the anti-fruitcake propaganda that infests commercials all throughout the Christmas season!

 

Don't know why, but I had a flash on Monty Python as I read that. Could have been a great scene in The Life of Brian.

[FredP]

Long live fruitcake! Down with the anti-fruitcake propaganda that infests commercials all throughout the Christmas season!

Don't know why, but I had a flash on Monty Python as I read that. Could have been a great scene in The Life of Brian.

The one featuring the great line: "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government"? If so, that's Holy Grail.

[AletheiaRivers]

Boring Prophet: "There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O'clock."

[flowperson]

Long live fruitcake!  Down with the anti-fruitcake propaganda that infests commercials all throughout the Christmas season!

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Forsooth say I. Yea, verily I say unto you my brethren and sistern (the source of all that is surely sweet ?), the hammer hath spoken!

 

flow....

[bloved]

Yea, it is written, "It taketh one to eateth one."

 

And yet again, "Come out from among them and touch not the unclean thing."

 

Fruitcake...blecccch!

[des]

Yes, I think I read that in Deut.-- something about thou shalt not eat unclean things like cakes shapeth like a brick that require a chisel to eateth, dusteth off from last years gayity

and passed on by Fed Exeth. :-)

Something like that anyways.

 

--des

[FredP]

Yes, I think I read that in Deut.-- something about thou shalt not eat unclean things like cakes shapeth like a brick that require a chisel to eateth, dusteth off from last years gayity

and passed on by Fed Exeth. :-)

Something like that anyways.

Not a chisel, just a good hearty knife.

 

Oh, and it's not so hard to cut through if it's thoroughly saturated with brandy either.

[des]

If there's enough brandy, you won't need to actually taste it. :-)

 

BTW, when I read the title of the post in the tcpc generally discussion it looks like "Does anybody really like Fr..."

I was thinking it was Fred. :-)

 

--des

[FredP]

 

I could start a topic for that!

[AletheiaRivers]

That was my first thought too!

[des]

Hah hah, glad I'm not the only one. I thought "how rude"! :-) :-)

Though I was pretty sure no one would really start such a thread.

 

--des

[flowperson]

Maybe we could call it "comfortably numb fruitcake" and market it in tandem with "special rastafari brownies".

 

We'll make Fred CEO as long as he agrees to let me head up quality control and taste testing.

 

flow....

[AletheiaRivers]

comfortably numb fruitcake

 

Hey, I was just thinking about watching that movie!

[FredP]

Hah hah, glad I'm not the only one. I thought "how rude"!  :-)  :-)

Though I was pretty sure no one would really start such a thread.

Don't tempt me!

[FredP]

comfortably numb fruitcake

Hey, I was just thinking about watching that movie!

Comfortably Numb Fruitcake? Never saw that one.

 

In truth, it is much easier to make a bad fruitcake than a good one. Anything that can be pasted together with mortar to form a wall is not strictly eligible for eating.

[des]

You're the only one I think who could pull the whole thing off. I double dare you. :-P

 

--des

 

 

 

 

Hah hah, glad I'm not the only one. I thought "how rude"!  :-)  :-)

Though I was pretty sure no one would really start such a thread.

Don't tempt me!

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[Carl]

Got this Fruit Cake Recipe in the E-mail.

I think EVERYONE will like this fruit cake. - Be sure to follow the instructions.

 

Christmas Fruit Cake

 

1 cup butter

 

2 cups sugar

 

6 large eggs

 

2 teaspoons baking powder

 

3 cups flour, sifted

 

1/2 t. salt

 

1 cup bourbon

 

1 pound pecans, chopped

 

3 cups white raisins (or use candied fruit)

 

1 t. nutmeg

 

AND

 

~ a very large bottle of bourbon whiskey ~

 

 

 

First, sample the whiskey to check for quality.

 

Assemble all of the ingredients. Check the whiskey again.

 

To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.

 

Repeat this step.

 

Turn on the electric mixer and beat one cup of butter in a large

 

fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar and cream until beat.

 

Make sure the whiskey is still okay... try another cup.

 

Turn off the mixer. Beat six leggs and add to the bowl,

 

then chunk in the cup of dried flut. Mix on the tuner.

 

Throw in two quarts of flour. Gradually pour in the cow.

 

Add 2 dried anything.

 

If the fried druit gets struck in the beaters, pry it loose with

 

a drewscriver. Sample the whiskey and check it again for tonsistency.

 

Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who cares???

 

 

Check the whiskey again.

 

Now sift the nutmeg and strain your nuts. Add one table.

 

And the spoon. Of whiskee. Or something. Whatever you find left.

 

Grease the oven.

 

Turn the crake pan to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off the turner.

 

Pour the oven into the batter. Throw the bowl out the window.

 

Lick the batter off the floor.

 

Bake 300 minutes at 50 degrees.

 

Finish the blobble of whishy and flow to bed.