The Angry family is back from Thanksgiving vacation, spent in New England with the Angry inlaws. Thus marks the formal beginning of the Christmas season.
We kept the Angry Kid so busy this weekend that she forgot her obsession with Christmas trees. This means we were compelled neither to drag the plastic tree up from the basement nor to head out into shopping madness to find a real tree destined to become a fire hazard before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
I am determined to have a good fruitcake this year. In pursuit of this goal, I purchased many bags of assorted citrus this morning, and a pot of citron has been simmering on the stove all evening. The house smells incredible.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
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Leave the fruitcake to the Trappists. Seriously -- MonasteryGreetings has a catalog, and they make the best damn fruitcake out there.
Failing that, e-mail me, and I'll give you the super-secret family Scripture Cake recipe.
I've never had a good fruitcake, only the sort that are more masonry than morsel. What does a good fruitcake taste like?
i don't think good fruitcake exists. That's an urban legend, designed to force you to waste years eating bad fruitcake in search of the good one that doesn't exist. Otherwise no one would eat fruit cake, so the myth must be maintained
The best fruitcake I ever had was my friend's when both she and her husband added the rum - double rum...yumm.. I was a bit tipsy after that cake.....so yes, a good fruitcake exists with sufficient (or overly sufficient) rum!
CrankyProf - now that was an EXCELLENT suggestion! I found something for everyone at my brother's place there, Christmas shopping for the US is done done done. My favorite was the book "The Bad Catholic's Guide to Wine, Whiskey and Song".
hey now, lets not get all foodist. i Love fruitcake and have a very good recipe from an old (old) Gourmet magazine. The trick is to steam all the dried fruit until it is plump and lovely, and preserve the cake in brandy. a good fruitcake should be made about a month before it is eaten, and will be just as good or better the next year.
People Ask for my fruitcake - honest!
Fruit cake is wicked pissa, you first 3 ah retahded.
-AB
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