Comments on: Fruitcake for freelancers

By: Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:24:54 +0000

Fruitcakes are like people. Sometimes the mix has too many nuts and fruits. A little booze makes one mellow, but too much causes one to fall apart. Without proper care they become hard and tasteless. With loving care they are a joy to have around. Regardless, as with people, I still like ‘em.

Colleen makes a superb fruitcake. I intended to share one with you once, but greed got in the way and I ate the whole thing. I didn’t need Speedy Alka Seltzer afterward either. She made only one batch of five cakes this year. Half of it went to my two eldest grandsons, who, being true descendants of this grandpa, like fruitcakes and mincemeat pies. Two remaining cakes are hidden in an old refrigerator in my workshop. We’ll see what the future holds for them.

Ron

By: Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:23:50 +0000

Maybe you and I had the same mother????? While, Sir William…you and I are different in mega ways…if we are both fruitcake lovers I think that is a
significant bonding! (apparently there are few of us in the world) My mother made the most divine ‘white’ she called it fruitcake, because it was
golden with huge chunks of nuts, fruit and whole cherries in it. Everyone
else in the family liked the dark better, much to my glee I got to have most
of the ‘white’ to myself. I being very unlike Ada and my mother (not a
cookie to be found in my freezer and it is December 16th)..I didn’t think to
get that recipe from her before she died and for some reason it wasn’t in
her huge collection in her recipe box. How can I get my hands on that
recipe?
Gloria Johnson, Club Carefree 50 director