Someone must like fruit cake 'cause they SELL! My maternal grandmere used to spend days baking up her "spacial" fruit cakes in that old-fashioned wood stove oven down on her farm! She used lots of those candied fruits and hand-cracked walnuts and spices. Once the cakes were baked, she soaked them with a dousing of "medicinal spirits", wrapped them in cheesecloth and stored them away in a cool place 'til Christmas...she was 'curing' them.
And what did she do with them? Gave them away as gifts! Oh mi ga!...once in a blue moon, she would whup up her homemade pound cakes, soak 'em and wrap the baked gems for a spell! I used to, as a kid, try to find out what her "medicinal spirts" actully were...I figure that it had to be, uh........rum.
It's OK...go ahead and love those fruit cakes, a slice at a time, though. I'll take the homemade pound cake...with a scoop of 'dirty vanilla' cream!
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