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10 Dec 03 - 06:11 PM (#1069717) Subject: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: MMario The latest terrorist threat? according to ABC nes - Christmas Fruitcake! It seems the x-ray machines can't see through them - and "Who knows what is hidden inside" |
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10 Dec 03 - 06:28 PM (#1069731) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Bill D ummm...why can't an x-ray penetrate nuts & raisins & citron and distinguish them from box cutters? Unless it is Miss Fogarty's, of course... |
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10 Dec 03 - 06:28 PM (#1069732) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Naemanson Uh-oh! Here in the Pacific fruitcake is not just for Christmas! On Guam the only proper wedding cake is fruitcake. I mentioned that in Oz and learned the same thing holds there. When I mention the antipathy for fruitcake in the US my Guam friends get really puzzled. It makes no sense to them. |
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10 Dec 03 - 06:29 PM (#1069733) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Naemanson But then, they do eat boiled bat. Check out the December 2003 issue of Discover magazine, page 20. |
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10 Dec 03 - 06:36 PM (#1069741) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: wysiwyg Fruitcakes have always been scary. ~S~ |
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10 Dec 03 - 06:50 PM (#1069750) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Bobert The worst scenerio is when someone comes to visit and brings the dreaded *F* thing (as in fruitc**e...) an' ya' get trapped into havin' to sample it and tell these folks just how wonderful it is... which, of course, it isn't because its a friggin F******e... Nast danged things. Yup, that is terrorism.... Bobert |
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10 Dec 03 - 10:13 PM (#1069882) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Mudlark Excuse me, but one does NOT have to like boiled bat to like fruitcake. A good rum soaked fruitcake, still rapped in its rummy cloth and full of small chunks of dried mango, papaya, pineapple, and figs, plus raisins, not too many, both brown and yellow. Ahhhh....sliced thin, with a glass of good brandy. I tell you, it beats boiled bat all to hell! |
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10 Dec 03 - 10:23 PM (#1069890) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Stilly River Sage I've always thought fruitcake was nice, but I don't eat it beyond the holiday season. And if you've ever had one of these you'll know why some people really do like fruitcake! SRS |
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10 Dec 03 - 10:31 PM (#1069895) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Little Hawk I'm no big fan of fruitcake. Give me a ripe mango anytime and keep the fruitcake. |
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10 Dec 03 - 11:22 PM (#1069930) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: JennyO I like the sound of this one! For anyone who doesn't know, Red Bull is one of those fashionable energy drinks. Vodka & Red Bull Christmas Cake Ingredients: 1 cup water 1 cup of brown sugar 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup of sugar 1 tsp salt Lemon Juice 4 large eggs Nuts 1 bottle of Vodka 1 can of Red Bull 2 cups dried fruit Method: 1. Sample the vodka to check the quality. 2. Take a large bowl, check the vodka again. 3. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and mix with a little red bull and drink. 4. Repeat. 5. Turn on the electric mixer, beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. 6. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. 7. At this point it is best to make sure the vodka is still ok. 8. Flavour with red bull to taste. 9. Try another cup - just in case turn off the mixerer. 10. Break two leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. 11. Pick fruit off floor 12. Mix on the turner. 13. If the dried fruit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it loose with a drewscriver. 14. Shample the vodka to check for tonsisticitity, flavour with a little Bed Rull. 15. Next ssiffft two cups of salt. Or something … Who giveshz a shi** 16. Throw a pinch of Bed Rull over your shoulder 17. Pick up the can, mop the floor 18. Check the vodka 19. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. 20. Add one table. 21. Add a shpoon of shugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. 22. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.. 23. Don't forget to beat off the turner 24. Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the vodka and kick the dog. 25. Fall into bed. CHERRY MISTMAS I've seen a similar one with whisky too. Got it somewhere - I think I'd prefer the whisky (hic). |
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10 Dec 03 - 11:41 PM (#1069940) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: LadyJean Mother got a fruitcake from somewhere in Cinncinatti that was all fruit. I don't know how it was made, but it was heavy on dates and candied cherries. Homemade fruitcake can be pretty good. The commercial onese are horrid! Then there's the happy time I gave Kevin Haffey a slice of my Kentucky cousin's fruitcake, well and truly soaked in the best Kentucky bourbon. Kevin said it was alright, except for the whiskey, she should have used Irish. |
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11 Dec 03 - 02:48 AM (#1070005) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Hrothgar Given a choice between boiled bat and boiled fruitcake, why not have boiled fruit bat (aka flying fox)? |
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11 Dec 03 - 06:43 AM (#1070118) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: LilyFestre Seems to me that fruitcake is much like meatloaf. YOu can tell folks that you don't care for the stuff and they always nod in agreement which is followed by...BUT YOU HAVEN'T TRIED MINE!!!!!! PATOOEY! Michelle |
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11 Dec 03 - 09:02 AM (#1070193) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST My Granma used to make wonderful boiled fruitcake - the Xmas one always had to have rum in it - even though the family didn't drink. She used to bake it in the oven in her wooden stove. She's been gone for many years now. Robin |
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11 Dec 03 - 09:09 AM (#1070199) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: harpgirl Personally, I'm grateful for Fruitcakes!! |
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11 Dec 03 - 09:15 AM (#1070202) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST,MMario *grin* Where would the mudcat be without fruitcakes? hmmm? |
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11 Dec 03 - 09:19 AM (#1070210) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Midchuck I read, somewhere, the hypothesis that there are only seventeen fruitcakes in the world. They just keep moving around as people receive them for Christmas and give them to somebody else, the next Christmas, so it seems like there are a lot more. That refers to the eating kind of fruitcakes, not the babbling kind, of course. P. |
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11 Dec 03 - 09:22 AM (#1070214) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Schantieman We never eat fruitcake because it has rum And one little bite puts a man on the bum. Oh, can you imagine a sorrier sight Than a man eating fruitcake until he is tight? Away, away, with rum (by gum) With rum (by gum), with rum (by gum) Away, away, with rum (by gum)- That's the song of the Salvation Army! |
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11 Dec 03 - 09:23 AM (#1070216) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST,MMario now this is a threat. Recipe from another list: White Icebox Fruitcake 11 oz. box 'Nilla Wafers 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk 10 oz. pkg. sweetened coconut flakes 1 cup more or less candied dried fruit (original called for white raisins) 1 cup more or less chopped nuts Crush the vanilla wafers. Mix all ingredients together. Pack firmly into an airtight container. Refrigerate. Best if allowed to sit a few days to meld the flavors *shudder* |
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11 Dec 03 - 10:55 AM (#1070272) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Stilly River Sage Shantieman, Your ditty rattled a few gray cells--I remember a similar song (different chorus) with that line about eating fruitcake until tight. I'll mull on it and see if I can remember the rest of it as my Dad used to sing it. SRS |
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11 Dec 03 - 11:03 AM (#1070275) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST Are we sure this isn't just another urban legend? Last year a cabbie taking me to O'Hare told me not to carry fruitcakes to the airport because they set off the new bomb sniffing gear. Sounds like a variation on a theme to me. |
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11 Dec 03 - 11:19 AM (#1070290) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST abc newscast - six o'clock news the 10th - oncludong interview with airport securoty chief |
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11 Dec 03 - 12:58 PM (#1070356) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST,Ely My mom is gearing up for the annual batch of fruitcakes. Hers are wonderful. None of the usual jokes apply. |
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11 Dec 03 - 02:15 PM (#1070396) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST,pdq SRS- Try Chad Mitchell Trio...I think it is early, on Kapp, approx. 1962... |
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11 Dec 03 - 02:16 PM (#1070399) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Mudlark Guest 9:02...If your grandmother actually baked in a wooden stove it's a wonder she lasted through even one fruitcake. The vanilla wafer recipe reminded me of a favorite fruitcake recipe in the area of the Ozarks that I lived in, which called for jellybeans instead of dried fruit, Coke, and of course shredded coconut. Shredded coconut was what set apart the chefs from the cooks, the women from the girls. |
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11 Dec 03 - 02:22 PM (#1070402) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Spot Message for JennyO... You sure you're not my ex...??? She used to that sorta cookin...!!! Happy Chritmas... Spot |
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11 Dec 03 - 03:03 PM (#1070430) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Bee-dubya-ell The vanilla wafer recipe Mmario posted is the only fruitcake I really like. A friend's mother makes 'em , but his wife is a health-food nut and won't allow them in the house. Since our house is conveniently situated between Mom's house and his own, when Mom gives him a cake he just stops by here and we destroy the evidence. |
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11 Dec 03 - 03:07 PM (#1070432) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Stilly River Sage PDQ, they may have recorded the same song, but I think he didn't listen to them, so its probably from a different source--they wouldn't have originated it. I'll look in SongFest, that's the book he used the most in the beginning around 1960. (My copy seems to have gone walkabout--does anyone else have it?) Mmario, that icebox fruitcake sounds horrible! It reminds me of all of the goofy recipes my junior high home ec teachers used to come up with, the recombination of packaged good ingredients instead of just getting serious about your cooking and making an item from scratch with all of its intricacies. SRS |
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11 Dec 03 - 03:51 PM (#1070465) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Metchosin We don't eat fruitcake because it has yeast And one little bite turns a man to a beast Oh can you imagine a sadder disgrace Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face. I've never put yeast or dangerous objects in a fruitcake, to my knowledge. However, I do remember, when I was quite young, after efforts to retrieve the stuff proved futile, that my mother stirred the ashes that had fallen from a cigarette in her mouth, into the Christmas pudding batter. For the past 50 years, we have never stuck a spoon into one of her Christmas Puds before questioning her regarding the potash levels. She turned 83 this year and has decided to retire from making the pudding and it is now my turn for the ritual....hmmm....seems somewhat sad that something surrounding our family traditions will come to an end this year, because I can't think of a single thing to add to the pudding to continue to make it unique. |
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11 Dec 03 - 11:08 PM (#1070705) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Mudlark It's cookies, We never eat cookies because they have yeast... rum/bum.....yeast/beast First verse: We're coming, we're coming, a brave little band On the right side of temperance we now take our stand We don't use tobacco, because we do think That the people who use it are liable to drink |
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12 Dec 03 - 12:34 AM (#1070743) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Stilly River Sage Looks like this thread ought to move up the page and join the music discussions! |
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12 Dec 03 - 01:02 AM (#1070759) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Naemanson Say what you like, fruitcake is one of my favorite foods. In fact, maybe I'll swing by the grocery store this weekend and pick up a can of fruitcake for the weekend. And a bottle of rum. As long as we are on the subject of holiday fare, try adding butterscotch schnappes to your eggnog instead of your usual additive. |
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12 Dec 03 - 02:14 AM (#1070773) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Metchosin thanks Mudlark, I knew it seemed odd, but its been awhile and the old grey cells they ain't what they used to be. Come to think of it though, yeast in cookies is just as illogical and thank god my old Mum only smoked her tobacco. We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band. On the right side of temperance we do take our stand We don't chew tobacco because we do think That the people who chew it are likely to drink |
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12 Dec 03 - 06:11 AM (#1070859) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Dave Bryant Linda baked her Christmas cake on Tuesday night. Since then she's been feeding it a small glassful of booze every evening - brandy one night and rum the next. Hrmm - it could be quite nice to be a cake. |
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12 Dec 03 - 01:28 PM (#1071033) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Schantieman It's biscuits that we never eat because they never have yeast - at least, on this side of the pond! But of course, the staff of life also depends on the activity of this marvellous fungus. How do the Christian temperance lot square that?! Steve |
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12 Dec 03 - 01:32 PM (#1071038) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Schantieman Rich, dark, fruit and rum (or brandy)-laden fruitcake is indeed one of life's most wonderful confections. Ideally it should be covered - not too thickly - in marzipan and royal icing. What we have here, of course, is proper old-fashioned birthday/wedding/Christmas cake. When I got married, I insisted on this type of cake. My bride insisted on sponge. So the bottom layer was rich & fruity, the top two were light and inconsequential. It didn't last. (The marriage, that is. I was able to keep some of the fruitcake for our first anniversary). S |
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12 Dec 03 - 05:03 PM (#1071178) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: NicoleC There is fruitcake, and then there is fruitcake. Those ridiculous gift cakey things with candied cherries in them bear the same resemblance to fruitcake as a unicycle does to a Ferrari. For die-hard self-proclaimed fruitcake haters, I simply wait an extra month and re-label my fruitcake and "Dark Fruit and Nut Loaf," and they always love that ;) Originally, fruitcake was devised as a means of preserving the summer's fruits and goodness over the winter, which is probably why we still assocaitge it with Christmas in many places. The symbolism of a properly preserved cake, chock full of nutrition, that will last many years makes ti particularly appropriate for a traditional wedding gift. And I use cognac on my fruitcake... |
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12 Dec 03 - 06:21 PM (#1071225) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Bill D Nicole...I'll be over..YUM!...(if it has nuts also!) I have eaten GOOD fruitcake, though not recently....and I have eaten at the gummy, sickly-sweet "weapon-of-massive-destruction" some try to pass off as 'fruitcake'...(plastic seems to be a major ingredient)..... |
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13 Dec 03 - 08:21 AM (#1071466) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: freda underhill you can always try the Society for the Preservation and Protection of Fruitcake - they have some good recipes - & can be checked out at http://mbgoodman.tripod.com/mbrecipe.html where I come from, a fruitcake is a bit of a nut case.. fred |
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13 Dec 03 - 11:29 AM (#1071540) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: JennyO Spot, your ex sounds like a woman after me own heart, but it's still definitely not me. Mussht be time for anotherr whishky........... |
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13 Dec 03 - 12:26 PM (#1071570) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST,Ghost of Christmas Past Does anybody want some 10 year old fruitcake? Here, I've got lots. |
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13 Dec 03 - 12:32 PM (#1071576) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Peace There is a bunch of fruitcakes in the White House. Why are we worried now? Bah, humbug! |
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13 Dec 03 - 02:01 PM (#1071624) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Lady Hillary EBarnacle here. Send me all your excess fruitcake. I makes a wonderful construction material and has never been known to rot or otherwise deteriorate. Actually, I have had quite a few good fruitcakes over the years. Of course, the best ones had so much rum or cognac or bourbon in them that the morning after the night before comes too soon. We sing it as: It's the song of the Temperance Union. |
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13 Dec 03 - 03:30 PM (#1071676) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Mrs.Duck My fruit cake may get through the x ray but it would never pass the alcohol limit!!!!!! |
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13 Dec 03 - 04:19 PM (#1071705) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: the lemonade lady Hey Schantie, you've now got another fruitcake! X |
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13 Dec 03 - 04:38 PM (#1071710) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: tar_heel sandytoes makes great fruitcake!!!!!!! |
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13 Dec 03 - 05:31 PM (#1071726) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST,Sandy Claws Do not send by US post. We will refuse to deliver them! |
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13 Dec 03 - 07:19 PM (#1071773) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: YorkshireYankee Uh-oh! Here in the Pacific fruitcake is not just for Christmas! On Guam the only proper wedding cake is fruitcake. I mentioned that in Oz and learned the same thing holds there. I suspect they (both of 'em) may have gotten that from England, where it also seems to be the preferred kind of cake for a wedding (covered with marzipan and royal icing, as Schantieman mentioned). Cheers, YY |
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13 Dec 03 - 07:47 PM (#1071782) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Naemanson I thought the same thing but the major influence here on Guam was Spanish. Spain took control of the island in the 17th century and held it until the end of the Spanish-American war in 1898. England had almost no presence here. As for the rest of you, FRUITCAKE LOVERS UNITE! FILL THE LAND WITH GOOD FRUITCAKE. DEPLETE THE LIQUOR STORES IN CONSTRUCTION OF THIS FINE CONFECTION. |
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13 Dec 03 - 09:53 PM (#1071814) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Donuel Anything wrapped in tin foil is opaque to X ray scanners. Should we all start wrapping our underwear in tin foil for our next flight we may be able to add a few more articles to the anti terrorist contraband list. A classic example of our zero tolerence laws was preventing a Congressional medal of honor winner to board a plane with his medal. It was apparently made of metal. |
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13 Dec 03 - 10:09 PM (#1071824) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: McGrath of Harlow I'd imagine it'd be easy enough to make a Semtex Fruitcake. The thing is, it's virtually impossible to screen out everything. As they said in the war (the big war) "Is your Journey Really Necessary?" |
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14 Dec 03 - 05:58 AM (#1071959) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: freda underhill The most delicious fruitcake I have ever had was made from persimmons, from a tree that grows in the cook's back yard. It was a beautiful, light fruity pudding, home made and delicious, served with a light vanilla custard... fred |
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14 Dec 03 - 05:04 PM (#1072290) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST,JTT My father used to make the Christmas cake every October. Then it would be put in a quiet, unused room, and once a week we'd all go in and he'd pour one glass of whiskey into the cake and drink another. Some time in the middle of November it got that just going into that room would make you come out ffeeling a bish funnnny. By the time Christmas Day came the thing could practically reel down the street by itself. And on Stephen's Day all the neighbours would be fluthered, purely from coming in for a genteel cup of tea and slice of cake. |
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14 Dec 03 - 06:22 PM (#1072349) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: RangerSteve It's not the cake, it's the fruit that sucks. And it's not really fruit, it's fruit peels. We don't put hair and feathers in beef or chicken stew, so why put citrus peels in cake? Peels were meant to be thrown away, or turned into compost. |
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14 Dec 03 - 06:36 PM (#1072363) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: wysiwyg "By their fruitcakes shall ye know them." ~S~ |
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14 Dec 03 - 08:19 PM (#1072470) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: McGrath of Harlow Interesting word, FrUitCaKe... |
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15 Dec 03 - 02:00 AM (#1072591) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Naemanson See, it must be an aphrodisiac! |
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15 Dec 03 - 08:33 AM (#1072794) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Two_bears > Fruitcakes have always been scary. I couldn't agree more! Fruit Cakes are evil (almost as bad as clowns). |
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16 Dec 03 - 06:52 AM (#1073398) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: freda underhill fruitcake an aphrodisiac? it depends what side of the anagram you're on. fruitcake could be an ARTIE FUCK then again, for those who are strongly against fruitcake it could be an IRATE FUCK, or for those who use packet mix, it could be a CUTE FAKIR. personally, I think that's what's really important among all this is the spirit of mangoes.. and I have never yet had a mangoe fruitcake. fred |
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16 Dec 03 - 07:20 AM (#1073423) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Naemanson Funny you should say that. Just today my landlady gave me two packets of dried mango. I imagine they would go well in a fruitcake. |
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16 Dec 03 - 07:34 AM (#1073433) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: freda underhill are you going to chop them up and soak them in brandy, before tossing in some eggs, sultanas & the rest? |
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16 Dec 03 - 08:35 AM (#1073475) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Kim C When fruitcake is good, it's very, very good; but when it's bad, it's horrid. Sort of like gin. There's an old story in my family, that back during the Depression, someone gave my great-grandmother a fruitcake. She threw it out in the yard because she thought the little green bits were "pizen." :-) |
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16 Dec 03 - 09:06 AM (#1073498) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Schantieman Come off it, Ranger: candied peel may or may not be your thing but it only features as one of the ingredients alondside currants, sultanas, raisins (one day I shall find out the difference between those three. I mean the official difference - I know what they look/taste like!), glace cherries and, of course, figs! (not to mention the flour, eggs, brandy etc. etc.) Yum^3 S |
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16 Dec 03 - 11:41 AM (#1073757) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: The Fooles Troupe Currants, sultanas and raisins are all different grape varieties. You can make wine from them I do believe, but I am not an expert - they are normally grown to be sundried. I suppose there is nothing to prevent you from making wine with the dried fruit - I have heard of currant wine. I do believe blackcurrants are not grapes. Oh, and a Sultana is the wife of a Sultan... :-) Candied peel (the good quality stuff) is used because it gives a delightful citrus fragance, and kept well. In earlier days, nothing was wasted on a farm, which is why we have sausages.... :-) Windfall apples (scrumps) were used to make cider - which is where the name scrumpy comes from - actually a good use for them as windfall apples are too sweet and ripe to keep long in storage... Robin |
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16 Dec 03 - 01:01 PM (#1073810) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: Stilly River Sage My rule of thumb, established by experience, is "never buy cheap fruitcake--you'll regret it." The bakery I linked to makes a rich dark cake with big chunks of premium candied fruit. On a somewhat different note, my mother used to have a big jar of what I think was called "Brandied fruit." I forget how it worked, but I think we added canned fruit every so often. It was fermenting and the new fruit kept it going (this is apparently the fruit world's answer to sourdough). I liked the fruit, but a little went a long way. There must have been a starter of some sort, like sourdough. Anyone know how you would go about it (or while you're at it, how to start sourdough starter?) SRS |
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16 Dec 03 - 01:17 PM (#1073820) Subject: RE: BS: Latest threat - FRUITCAKE From: GUEST,MMario There are sourdough starter kits available on the internet - it's probably the best way to go because a new one (which would depend on "wild" yeasts could easily develop an off flavour. and a tuttti-fruitti jar can pretty easily be started. see: SOAR database for one recipe |