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22 Dec 08 - 01:41 PM (#2522287) Subject: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude Every year at christmas time I get a couple of "Fruit Cakes" you know the things that like plastic will never decompose and will remain after all human life is rendered extinct. The ones that weight in at 75 lbs but are only 3 inches long. One time I tried to actually eat one ... that was a mistake. So I ask, is there any other uses for the annual holiday plastic wrapped , can sealed circular holiday "Fruit Cake" |
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22 Dec 08 - 01:47 PM (#2522292) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Uncle_DaveO Doorstops. Paperweights. Ballast for ships. |
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22 Dec 08 - 01:50 PM (#2522297) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: catspaw49 Pack with explosives and use on the 4th of July.....the fruit makes pretty colors. Carve little woodland creatures. Drill wee tiny holes in each one and send to Wav for sex toys. Spaw |
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22 Dec 08 - 02:01 PM (#2522306) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: McGrath of Harlow Slice them and fry the slices. Or hang them on a tree for the birds to work on. Myself, I like a solid fruit cake. Cakes should give you something to get your teeth into. |
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22 Dec 08 - 02:07 PM (#2522312) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Sleepy Rosie Mix crumbled with Vanilla Icecream and a tiddly splosh of Rum for... Fruity Boozey Icecream. Make truffles with the dried crumbs. Crumble into pancake mix, and make those nice little fat pancakes (I call them 'drop scones') that you eat with butter dripping from them. Crumble into plain Muffin Mix... |
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22 Dec 08 - 02:24 PM (#2522328) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude Spaw you always make me laugh thank you |
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22 Dec 08 - 02:24 PM (#2522330) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Gurney Eat it. Pass wind. Fruitcake affects a person! Quote (another one) from a TV show: "I'll give it to the birds." "Not if you want them to fly!" |
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22 Dec 08 - 02:28 PM (#2522332) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: SINSULL Re-gift it. There is a theory that there is actually only one fruit cake that keeps getting passed along year after year. Although, I have seen people eat it so that probably isn't true. There must be at least two. |
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22 Dec 08 - 02:41 PM (#2522345) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: John MacKenzie Encourage it to join Mudcat, where it would feel right at home with all the other fruitcakes. ¦¬] |
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22 Dec 08 - 02:49 PM (#2522349) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: MMario There are seven fruitcakes. When the last fruitcake is eaten, the universe ends. |
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22 Dec 08 - 02:55 PM (#2522357) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Amos Send them to the Middle East as gifts to celebrate the end of Ramadan. It weil completely unman any terrorist impulses. A |
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22 Dec 08 - 03:55 PM (#2522411) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Tig A true story My then boyfriend was working on the North Sea oilrigs and had been to see me just after Christmas. As it was a long way to where he had to catch the helicopter back to the rig my mum gave him a large chunk of her homemade Christmas cake and a flask of coffee. It was essential he made it back down south that night or he would lose a fortnight's work but on the way the radiator went on his car. There were no garages near and he had no radweld with him ........ He took the cake, broke it into pieces and stuffed them into the radiator filler hole, following it with the coffee. This held for the seventy odd miles he still had to travel - with no drainage from the radiator! He made it back to the 'copter just in time to get back to the rig. However my mum (who was an excellent cook) refused to give him cake to 'take away' ever again. |
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22 Dec 08 - 03:57 PM (#2522413) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude Now that is a good use for fruit cake yup ... I have a leaky sink upstairs, gonna give er a try |
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22 Dec 08 - 04:09 PM (#2522425) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: catspaw49 Can't do that Dude!!! I've already notified Wavy that you're sending him a fruitcake! Really! Check the thread............ Evil and Nasty, I remain, Spaw |
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22 Dec 08 - 04:15 PM (#2522430) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Comrac (troll alert contact max) There are one or two fruitcakes on this site as well ! |
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22 Dec 08 - 04:18 PM (#2522434) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Amos Sweets to the sweet, And nuts to the nuts, And fruitcake....? A |
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22 Dec 08 - 04:19 PM (#2522435) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: John MacKenzie More like Dundee cake Comrac. You can tell the difference, Dundee cakes have their nuts showing. |
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22 Dec 08 - 04:27 PM (#2522442) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Little Hawk Generally speaking, one can get rid of any unwanted food by giving it to the wiener dog, with one caveat: he may throw it up all over the carpet shortly after devouring it. They'll eat almost anything, but they're not always so good at keeping it down. One exception, however, is fruitcake. Most wiener dogs are not completely stupid and even those that are will not eat much, if any fruitcake. They will sniff at it cautiously, drag it around the room a bit, break off some small pieces, chew them and then spit them out on the floor, stare at the resultant mess with a look of mild disgust, then toddle off to their favorite resting spot, utter a deep sigh, and flop down for a snooze. So one still has the fruitcake to dispose of, only it's been spread around some. I think that a large number of fruitcakes could be used to build a small hut, such as an outdoor storage hut. It would be almost impervious to weather and could serve as a fallout shelter in case of a nuclear attack. One could eat little bits off the interior walls while waiting for the outside radiation to subside and could probably survive for months...providing one had water, a good supply of laxatives, and an absolutely castiron digestive system. Who invented the damn things is what I want to know? I bet it was the English. |
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22 Dec 08 - 04:38 PM (#2522450) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude Heavy I mean why would someone mail these things to me. .. I bet the shipping was as much as what I paid for some of the desktops that went out to people in need. Gold doesn't have that weight. Little Hawk you are absolutely right. I have 3 weiner dogs and they won't eat a crumb of it. Nor will my fat black lab who will eat anything and i mean anything. I dropped the darn thing and it missed my foot by an inch. I would have broken a toe ... Why? What is the purpose of them? I think the other post is correct, there is only 7 of them on earth and people just pass the darn things around this time of the year. I often wonder what I did to piss people off so that they would think wow, Dan would really enjoy a fruit cake for christmas I must have been a bad boy |
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22 Dec 08 - 04:38 PM (#2522451) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Ernest Nobody invented fruitcakes, LH. The proof is that no one ever admits it. There is a theory that evolution is responsible for them: They are actually dinosaur turds that were to stubborn even to petrify. |
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22 Dec 08 - 04:48 PM (#2522456) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Awwwww.....poor little guy, Dan ;0) |
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22 Dec 08 - 04:49 PM (#2522458) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Lizzie Cornish 1 You could always send them to Jimmy Buffet....... |
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22 Dec 08 - 05:00 PM (#2522469) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: John MacKenzie Fruit cakes are like a sneeze, there is only one in the world, and it passes from person to person. When it's your turn, you get it, whether you want it or not. |
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22 Dec 08 - 05:04 PM (#2522475) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude Lizzie you are right, instead of a lump of coal, I get fruit cakes what did I do wrong .... people are mad at me sniff sniff ... sigh why not send me hot dogs, frozen hot dogs .. nope get fruit cakes I am thinking they may be great for that canadian sport called curling. When they sail the big rock down the ice with the little brooms and stuff.. Use the fruit cake instead .. now that is an idea afterwords the loser gets to eat it .. then it can be called hurling |
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22 Dec 08 - 05:18 PM (#2522485) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Sorcha Bin food. Is ALL I do with them. |
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22 Dec 08 - 05:29 PM (#2522497) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Lizzie Cornish 1 You could tie them on to your shoes, Dan...and get a whole new perspective of the world. Handy in the snow. :0) |
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22 Dec 08 - 05:40 PM (#2522509) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude I can see it now, people sitting around saying, what should we get dan this year ... then the reply ... why that no good so and so lets get him a fruit cake I could tie them to my shoes and then I won't slip on the ice and I bet it would not damage the cake in any manner |
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22 Dec 08 - 05:47 PM (#2522515) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude A new Stephen King Christmas story ... "and the little children woke up christmas morning to find a gift wrapped Fruit Cake under the tree" the horror the horror, now that would make a kid want to be good for Santa |
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22 Dec 08 - 06:26 PM (#2522540) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: maeve Dan, Dan, Dan... Do I have a link for you! Fruitcakes wanted...for real! Only in Maine! |
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22 Dec 08 - 06:47 PM (#2522550) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Riginslinger In the US we elect Fruit Cakes to public office, but that's a spendy way to get rid of them. |
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22 Dec 08 - 07:06 PM (#2522560) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude Maeve Holy Cow, you are right only in Maine !!! Wow, maybe they will take mine |
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22 Dec 08 - 07:36 PM (#2522581) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Ed T Why not ask the fruoit cake lady? http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,339538348.aspx |
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22 Dec 08 - 07:38 PM (#2522583) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Ed T A better link to the fruitcake lady http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,search,fruitcake+lady,i,1.aspx |
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22 Dec 08 - 07:53 PM (#2522591) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude there are actually people who enjoy these things, that is amazing wow .... to each their own I guess... I wonder however what would happen to a person who ate a big piece of one and then drank 2 cups of coffee. I bet they would swell up so large they could not fit through the door ... |
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22 Dec 08 - 08:06 PM (#2522599) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: maeve FYI: There do exist a few recipes for delicious fruitcakes. My family has such a recipe and nobody has been sorry to get one of our cakes or to eat it. The pecans are usually expensive and scarce (we only use those that are sweet, fresh, plump and golden) and I prefer it with dried, not candied fruits: sweet cherries, apples, and slightly sweetened cranberries alongside the pecans and dates (in place of the usual very sweet and oddly colored candied pineapple and cherry pieces.) Other nuts can be used. Brushing the finished fruitcakes with brandy or rum can add a nice flavor and keep them tasting fresh longer, but it's optional. |
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22 Dec 08 - 08:28 PM (#2522618) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude Maeve OH home made is a different story entirely, I bet it is wonderful.. The ones from the store that are 70 lbs are so so dry, The fruit inside is like rubber. I am amazed at how bad they are and they last of years and years. I had a neighbor in PA that made her own and you are right , absolutely wonderful she had all kinds of things in it and it was just moist and wonderful ... I don't know what the store brands puts into those things but it is kinda like my mom's cookies ... dangerous |
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22 Dec 08 - 09:46 PM (#2522658) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Joe_F I take care to have a fruitcake every Christmas, but I suppose it is largely an excuse for brandy & hard sauce. Some other excuse, or vehicle, foods: escargots (for garlic sauce); waffles (for sour cream & maple syrup); toast (for butter & orange marmalade). |
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22 Dec 08 - 11:31 PM (#2522691) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: JennieG Well....I like fruitcake. I was brought up on it. My maternal grandmother was a superb cook (especially her cakes, tarts and pies all of which she cooked in a wood stove oven) and made a wonderful boiled fruitcake; everyone in the family had one of Nanna's cakes for their birthday cake. And now our No 1 son has got himself a lovely girl who is also a superb cake maker - whoo hoo! Cheers JennieG |
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22 Dec 08 - 11:38 PM (#2522694) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Skivee I know folks who use them to pound in circus tent stakes. You need to be careful to not ding up the ends of the stakes too much. |
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23 Dec 08 - 08:52 AM (#2522901) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: MaineDog I'm thinking of all the cuttings of Angel Wing Begonias and rubber plants that I am going to pot some day -- if someone would send me a fruit cake I could poke holes in it and insert my cuttings, that would make matters a lot easier. MD |
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23 Dec 08 - 09:11 AM (#2522914) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: theleveller Drill a suitably-sized hole in the top and it will make a great Christmas tree stand. |
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23 Dec 08 - 09:54 AM (#2522939) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Bee-dubya-ell How do you tell the difference between a fruitcake and a bowling ball? The bowling ball is the one with three holes in it. |
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23 Dec 08 - 10:15 AM (#2522958) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: theleveller I'm eating a wonderful piece of fruitcake right now. I made it myself at the weekend with Hobgoblin beer - it would be even better if I had a bit of Wensleydale cheese to eat with it. |
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23 Dec 08 - 10:37 AM (#2522974) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: TheSnail You could write a song about it but it's already been done. |
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23 Dec 08 - 11:28 AM (#2523016) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Ebbie Last night Jay Leno of the Tonight Show said that he discovered that a fruitcake makes a great alternative Duraflame log- burns for hours, he said. |
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23 Dec 08 - 11:32 AM (#2523021) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Ed T Buy a professional defruiting kit. It costs somewhere around $120, and can be ordered from somewhere in California. |
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23 Dec 08 - 11:35 AM (#2523026) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Ed T Can one get a Chinese made fruit cake....with melamine on the side? |
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23 Dec 08 - 12:05 PM (#2523055) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: astro If I ever get a fruitcake, I'll keep it in the fridge on the chance that we are hit with a 8 magnitude earthquake and we lose power, it'll be that one bit of food we could live off of for the weeks we are on our own...of course, starvation maybe prefable...I could give it to the looters which would immediately stop the looting...make them law-abiding folks...or.... loan it to the local mafia who could attach it to their most recent foes to sink them in the local lake...a fruitcake overcoat... BTW, please don't take this as a plea for a fruitcake... astro |
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23 Dec 08 - 05:05 PM (#2523269) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Amergin To hell with shoes....toss a fruitcake at the politicians! |
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23 Dec 08 - 05:17 PM (#2523281) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: maple_leaf_boy Slice it up, and use the slices as hockey pucks. :) |
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23 Dec 08 - 05:43 PM (#2523301) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude Hockey pucks now that is thinking ... if I can find a knife sturdy enough to cut through the critter |
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23 Dec 08 - 05:51 PM (#2523310) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Lizzie Cornish 1 I wish you hadn't started this thread, Dan...I keep getting the strangest visions of things you can do with a fruitcake. Visions which I really don't think I'm even old enough to have!! LOL |
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23 Dec 08 - 06:14 PM (#2523325) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Dan! I've found a Fruitcake Monastery... ...Look! :0) Apparently, they used to make concrete blocks...Honest... :0) |
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23 Dec 08 - 06:57 PM (#2523365) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Ed T History and recipes http://www.learn-america.com/stories/storyReader$1966 |
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23 Dec 08 - 07:18 PM (#2523384) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Mrs.Duck Well I just fed mine its daily dose of brandy. We will probably cut it on Boxing Day and believe me eating it will be no chore. And Giok I do recall one of my cakes did actually become a member of Mudcat but sadly is no longer with us! |
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23 Dec 08 - 07:30 PM (#2523392) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Bee-dubya-ell Dan! I've found a Fruitcake Monastery... That's no fruitcake monastery! That's the technicians at True Temper's wheelbarrow division converting unwanted fruitcakes into pucture-proof wheelbarrow tires. |
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23 Dec 08 - 07:36 PM (#2523404) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude LOL this is great thank you ... I have loads of ideas now |
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23 Dec 08 - 11:06 PM (#2523511) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Naemanson Send them to ME! I haven't eaten fruit cake in a long time and I miss it. |
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24 Dec 08 - 07:19 AM (#2523702) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Jack Blandiver Ask Les in Chorlton, and Spleen - in fact, it all got a bit fruit cake back in the day, when marzipan just wasn't an option... |
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24 Dec 08 - 10:20 AM (#2523829) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Charmion I just finished another batch of three, all of which are spoken for and eagerly anticipated. Why is store fruitcake so vile? Because the proportion of flour to fruit is much too high, and the egg and butter level way too low. Also, it's innocent of alcohol. Good fruitcake is fiendishly expensive to make, and you can tell by the price of the stuff at the supermarket that it's cheap and nasty in every sense of that phrase. |
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25 Dec 08 - 08:57 AM (#2524374) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: RangerSteve I never understood fruitcake. It has citrus peels in it. Nobody willingly eats peels. You throw them away and eat the rest. But for some reason, at Christmas, you save the peels and put them in a cake. That's like making chicken soup with bones but no actual chicken. Putting booze in the cake is probably just a way of getting the recipient drunk so that he doesn't notice he's eating ingredients that should have been thrown away. |
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26 Dec 08 - 03:20 AM (#2524806) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Joe Offer I bought a fruitcake from Trappist monks this year. I thought it was the best I've ever had. -Joe- |
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26 Dec 08 - 05:12 AM (#2524834) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Big Al Whittle just imagined how well they could have cooked it, if they'd discussed the recipe! |
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26 Dec 08 - 01:26 PM (#2525013) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Charmion A good fruitcake contains both candied citron (a kind of melon) and the grated rind of oranges and lemons, as well as their juices. Some people also add candied orange rind. Those who turn up their noses at these ingredients are merely leaving all the more for those of us who have tastebuds of discrimination and discernment. |
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26 Dec 08 - 02:25 PM (#2525068) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: GUEST,Charmion's brother Andrew RangerSteve, have you never tried candied citrus peel? The rind of the lemon is actually sweeter than the juice and pulp, though the flavour is not as strong. Grapefruit rind candies best. Orange rind is bitter raw, but that bitterness leaves as it is cooked. BTW, you don't eat the peel and throw the rest away, you use it ALL. |
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26 Dec 08 - 02:26 PM (#2525069) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: VirginiaTam in UK is Christmas cake same as fruit cake? Only with marzipan and white frosting? |
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27 Dec 08 - 09:42 AM (#2525473) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: goatfell east them |
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27 Dec 08 - 09:59 AM (#2525484) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Donuel Fruitcake is an art. When mixed with egg yolks, glue, sawdust and charcoal it makes an enduring medium one can pour in molds to make statuary or let dry and sculpt with chisles. |
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27 Dec 08 - 11:47 AM (#2525557) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Charmion Yes, Virginia, there is a fruitcake under the marzipan and icing of a Christmas cake. If you call it fruitcake, you have permission to eat it all year round -- though personally I consider it winter food, for consumption on dark, miserable Sunday afternoons with a large cup of tea and a good book. |
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27 Dec 08 - 04:01 PM (#2525714) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: VirginiaTam I quite like the idea of frying slices in butter. Maybe sprinkle some cinnamon on? I saw in Sainsbury's they had christmas cake cheese in the deli counter. Did not fancy that at all. |
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28 Dec 08 - 01:15 PM (#2526088) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Charmion Anyone who would fry fruitcake in butter would slather butter on a hunk of brie. My gall bladder quavers in terror at the very thought. Christmas cake cheese ... ditto. |
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28 Dec 08 - 04:01 PM (#2526171) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Ed T Reminds me of the butter grilled Elvis sandwitch, below. (But, it is said he preferred bacon fat to butter). http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/recipes/main_pbsand.html |
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29 Dec 08 - 11:06 AM (#2526653) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: VirginiaTam Maybe I have been trying the wrong christmas fruit cake. Chokingly dry and taste of burnt raisins. And that was Marks & Sparks. |
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29 Dec 08 - 11:20 AM (#2526663) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Uncle_DaveO "Christmas Fruitcake Recipe" {Something to save for the next year!} Items Needed: 4 Oz. Fruit Bits 1 Railroad Tie Wood Saw Large Rubber Mallet Safety Goggles WEAR YOUR SAFETY GOGGLES. (Children: Get help from an adult!) Cut a one-foot section from the middle of your railroad tie. The resulting block of wood should be the size and shape of a loaf of bread. Then, take some fruit bits and pound them into the block with your rubber mallet. Spread the colors around, or you might wind up with an ugly fruitcake. Don't be afraid to throw some elbow grease into that mallet! Good fruit bits should be much harder than the railroad tie, so you can't break anything. For best result, you should pre-treat the fruit bits by setting them on top of your garage for a year (or by microwaving them on HIGH for 30 minutes). Finally, cover it tightly in plastic wrap, and give your loved ones the timeless and enduring gift of fruitcake! [Pleased to be of assistance to everyone!] |
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29 Dec 08 - 01:24 PM (#2526748) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Charmion Hmmm -- chokingly dry, tasting of burnt raisins -- yep, a supermarket fruitcake. The Marks & Sparks version boasts that expensive top layer of marzipan to add that element of snare and delusion. Fruitcake is one of those traditional foods that cannot be made well on a commercial basis -- too much work, and if it's going to be good you have to use lots of the most expensive ingredients. (It shares this status with hollandaise sauce and tripe Lyonnaise.) Now, even a supermarket fruitcake can be improved by soaking in good-quality dark rum or whiskey -- use a sweet-tasting variety such as rye (Canadian), bourbon, or Jack Daniel's. Pour the liquor on top of the cake and wrap it up for a week. Taste, and repeat the treatment if it's still chokingly dry. The booze should do something about the taste of burnt raisins, too. |
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29 Dec 08 - 09:08 PM (#2527060) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: fumblefingers I like fruit cake, particularly if it came from the Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. Good stuff. |
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30 Dec 08 - 08:14 PM (#2527913) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Genie I've had some really delicious commercially available fruitcakes - probably not from the supermarket - but they are not at all cheap (even without the shipping). They can be one of the most expensive gifts to order from the mail order specialty catalogues. The good ones are quite moist (unless your predisposition to despise them leads you to leave them untouched for months till one day in August you smoke some good stash and finally get around to the old fruitcake after eating everything else in sight). They usually contain dried fruit, pecans, walnuts, etc. and are more fruit than cake. I'll add that they're incredibly fattening! As for weiner dogs turning up their noses at them, heck, I question the gourmet discrimination of any critter that eats the chunks out of the cat's litter box. ; D |
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31 Dec 08 - 01:58 PM (#2528470) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: Mrs.Duck Was delayed making my cake this year and since we have stuffed ourselves silly over Christmas we have decided that the cake will be put away and fed until next year. The Duck Christmas cake 2009 will certainly be worth waiting for! |
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31 Dec 08 - 02:26 PM (#2528494) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: olddude Let me explain again. The home made stuff I bet is great. That is except if my mom made it ... It is the cheap, dried up, and yet still expensive variety that I am talking about. Normally those things look like hard tack that the civil war soldiers use to have to eat at camp. You could club a seal with the thing .. Now that is a big difference. |
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31 Dec 08 - 03:06 PM (#2528526) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: CET Charmion, actually, on CET's computer ... Thanks to Joe Offer, we bought a little piece of Trappist fruitcake at the butcher's the other day -- there's a Trappist community in Oka, down the road a piece from here. Purty good fruitcake. The ingredients include tomatoes and tomato juice, which rather surprised me. It is also leavened, so it's softer, sweeter and altogether meeker than mine, but still purty good. Despite the green cherries ... |
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01 Jan 09 - 02:35 AM (#2528864) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: CamiSu My dear departed husband taught me ti eat grilled Peanut Butter & Jelly, though not with THAT MUCH butter! And my fruitcakes are good! (and all gone) CamiSu |
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01 Jan 09 - 05:59 AM (#2528898) Subject: RE: BS: Things to do with a Fruit Cake From: SPB-Cooperator Pour liquid nitrogen over the cake. Lob it to a cricketer...... |
