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RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? - 12/23/2006 8:11:57 AM

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I saw Alton Brown make a good looking Fruitcake that only took about 30 hours total to make [you had to leave some stuff soaking overnight] So I dunno about the length of time needed for it.

But as for holiday treats, i'll stick with aroz con leche.

Rice Pudding I mean.

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RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? - 12/23/2006 8:14:12 AM

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Maybe that's why people tend to like the fruitcakes I make since I use my grandmother's recipe which came, originally, from England. It's the best!! You can always tell when the kids in my family have grown up because they start asking for their own fruitcake from me!

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Hate American fruitcake......LOVE English fruitcake, especially served with a nice white stilton cheese. Ours are the ones with the rum or brandy...but I like to let the Americans think all fruitcakes are equal so there's more for me :)

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RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? - 12/23/2006 11:06:21 AM

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now you're gonna have to make me one of those fruitcakes...

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RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? - 12/23/2006 11:31:21 AM

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This brought back some memories, erin.

I was going to answer the thread by saying that most people really don't know what a good homemade fruitcake tastes like.

My father used to make fruitcake when I was a kid. And it was a similiar thing to what you describe...I remember him opening the tin it was stored in and adding rum periodically, it was like a baby he was taking care of. Adding the rum, wrapping it, storing it etc.
It is quite a project, but worth it. It was dark and heavy and just a little bit sticky and so flavorful. It would last for like a year. Its like it never went bad. We would just open it up and take a thin slice now and again. The store-bought fruit cakes dont even compare. But to answer the OP, I still like them, but not as much as homemade.

The recipe that I use is actually a family recipe from my mother's side of the family. It's from Barbados. Her family immigrated there a couple hundred years ago and her Grandmother was the first here in the states. The cake is very dark, heavy and moist.....and as you said...you don't need more than a thin slice. The rum used is dark spiced Barbadian or Jamaican rum.

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RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? - 12/26/2006 8:53:07 PM

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My father really loves a good traditional fruit cake. I make them for him and they are ALOT of work. You have to start by soaking the fruits in rum for 6 weeks. Then you make the batter and make the cakes. You wrap them in foil and seal them in a tin container with a tight fitting lid. Every 3rd day for the next 3 months you open them and spoon rum over the top and seal them back up. I don't think they are much like the ones you buy at the store though.

What a wonderful daughter! I actually love fruitcake, perhaps cause I tend to be one.

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(He's also really into homemade mincemeat and plum pudding....which are very time consuming also.)

This is the third year I've made plum pudding, using my great-grandmother's recipe. I enjoy making it, and I'm always excited to hear about folks who like it.

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RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? - 12/26/2006 8:55:36 PM

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I was surprised when a neighbor gave us a fruitcake for Christmas and noone would touch it but my six year old wanted to try it..omg he devoured it! he must have eaten two large slices...we all said "ewwwww" he said "shut up" lol

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RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? - 12/27/2006 3:28:29 PM

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it can be the best cake to have , for sure if its cooked ok .

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RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? - 12/28/2006 2:51:24 AM

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I'm adding my two cents on the side of REAL fruitcake. Whether it be the "quick" way that the god AB makes, or the long drawn out traditional process.

The people that say they hate fruitcake have either never had one at all ... or worse, they've only tried the crap that is massmarketted in the states and sold at places like WalMart(*).

IF you ever get the chance to try a REAL fruitcake. Do it. I make large batches and slice the big one up to give as gifts (after wrapping the slices in rum-soaked cheesecloth)

(*) NOTHING sold at WalMart is the genuine article.

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RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? - 12/28/2006 3:12:25 AM

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Fruitcakes when made well are incredbly yummy, actually ... just too many of them are made badly. Krissi, next time someone sends you a bad one, why don't you try soaking it in rum for 6 weeks? 8)

Anything you soak in rum for 6 weeks would probably taste good. At least, it would if you drank the leftover rum first.

My mother and grandmother used to make a production run of fruitcakes every summer, with all the candied and dried fruits, nuts, and rum and brandy and whatnot, and seal them in a quart-size can. Then they were pressure cooked. They aged in the cellar till December, when most were sent out as gifts. They were one of the most treasured treats at Christmas gatherings, and once opened, seldom lasted over a day or two. I was totally mystified by the fruitcake joke, until I tasted a fruitcake from the supermarket. Paaah! No comparison at all.

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