Tis the season for *FRUITCAKE* Love it or leave it ?

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Toomuchstuff

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I love the fruitcake that my grocery store sells. It's not real cheap , but it's good. I never had one of the really classy ones that have the rum soaked fruit in it . I don't think I'd like the boozy taste. ALot of the ladies at the senior center talk about how their mom used to make home made fruit cake with the fruit marinating for weeks in rum or whiskey and how they'd always find a way to sneak some :eek: Funny stories !

What's your opinion about it ? Any funny fruitcake stories to tell ?
 

I love it but I've had to give it up!

My mother used to make it the weekend after Thanksgiving and let it ripen until Christmas.

She also made sheet pans of fruit cake and cut it into tiny pieces as wedding favors. We used to get drafted to help wrap those little pieces in cling film then in tissue paper and tie them off with a satin ribbon, what an awful time consuming job!!!

If you want to try a good fruitcake the folks at the Collins Street Bakery will ship you one in the mail.

https://www.collinstreet.com/?utm_s...MIpIf8pc7i1wIVhy-BCh2t7gBdEAAYASAAEgKuWPD_BwE

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I inherited the fruitcake-making duty from my grandmother and made them for several years. I would start on Friday afternoon and would chop/mix/bake/preserve practically around the clock until Sunday evening. Everybody in the family got a fruitcake. They professed to love them, but who knows? One of my sisters actually saved hers and used it as the top layer in her wedding cake.

Will I ever make one again? HELL to the NO!
 
Love the Collins Street one and I used to make a white fruitcake with just the things I liked in it, pecans, dates, red cherries and pineapple. Haven't made it in years as its too much trouble now.
 
The reason they keep so well is that nobody wants to eat them, so they sit there, and sit there, and sit there. Then it's the Xmas season again. They are an acquired taste. I've never "acquired" being destitute enough to eat some.
 
We love it! always have some with tea on T-day morn. while watching the Macys parade. I used to make the best w/lot's of booze in it, but now simply buy them.
 
I have misplaced my mom’s recipe, it was very dark, full of dried fruit, but no spices. Contained both cider and brandy. I recall it made three cakes, small, medium, and large, which we cooked in round springform pans. I wish I could find that recipe.
 
This is a great little book with many fruitcake recipes and stories about Truman Capote and his aunt. Marie Rudisill has published other books about fruitcake, southern cooking, life in the south, etc... I would not buy the book new but if you find a copy for a couple of bucks it's a great addition to a cookbook collection.

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I never ate fruitcake as a kid, but my husband had me buying a small Carlson's brand cake for the store for a couple of years, he'd eat most of it and I only had a small slice or two. I never liked it, but I haven't tried a quality one from a bakery soaked in rum, that might be more palatable. :p
 
My mother used to get the fruitcake that came in those beautiful round tins when I was a little girl, and so I have always loved fruitcake.
All I have ever had were the ones sold in grocery stores, so I have probably never had one that was soaked in rum or brandy (or whatever) ; but that sounds even better, and I am sure that I would really like that, too.
I usually wait until after the holiday when they mark the fruitcakes down for clearance before I buy any because they are just expensive for no more fruitcake than you get for the money.
 
My parents (God rest their souls), used to love the Claxton Georgia Fruitcake. Not for me, can't do the candied fruit.
 
Haven’t cared much for the stuff most my life.
I think the one we had when I was a medium sized kid turned the corner for me.
I had the Asian flu that Christmas
Didn’t seem to stop me from wolfing down a generous slice of cake
The little nodules of fruitlike substance was relatively disenchanting, but I managed a second piece
Not very long after, a tremendous urge to regurgitate sent me to the oval office
Passing those insipidly flavored nuggets thru my nose was rather off putting and pretty much put fruitcake in the not for human consumption category for me

However

A couple three years ago we got all loose with money and ordered one from wunna those catalogue houses
Not cheap
Quite good
They musta soaked those fruit bits in some sorta distinctive taste of delicious alcohol

We ordered another the following year as a gift for some deserving soul



.....we ate that one too
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