SC - RE: Rum Pots

[Louise Sugar]

I used to have one too passed down from my German ancestors.....it was in a 
200 yr old pot that was also passed down to the oldest 
daughter/granddaughter....pot and contents were flung thru a window 2 yrs 
after I married my ex.....his excuse was that there was rotten fruit in a 
jar that I 'neglected to clean up'

sigh

- -----Original Message-----
From:	marilyn traber [SMTP:margali at 99main.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, September 24, 1997 12:45 PM
To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
Subject:	Re: SC - bird or bay?

Mary Morman wrote:

> how marvelous!  i thought i was the -only- one on earth to keep that
> jar
> of mixed fruit parts soaking all year long to use for holiday
> fruitcakes
> and mincemeant and pound cakes, and . . .
>
> elaina
>

the absolute origin of mine was my great aunt Bessie from Philadelphia,
and she started it in about 1912, and gave some to my grandmother when
she married my grandfather in 1920. When my mother married my dad in
1949, she got given some, and when I moved out and on my own, I got
some.

I notice that it was originally started with a bit different things,
primarily fruits and nuts but no spices. My mother is originally from
Iowa, where there is a strong mennonite population and she liked
spicing.

I have had homemade fruitcake "pudding" made with the preserved things
sold for that purpose in grocerie stores, and a number of peoples'
fruitcakes made with rumpot, and there is no comparison. I even gave
rumpot to my sister in law and mother in law. My mother in law makes the
most wonderful persimmon pudding with her batch!

margali
as a sidebar, her aunt bessie founded the Christian Childrens Fund-not
advertising them but thought people might be interested. She also lived
to be 97-must have been the preservative qualities of the rum pot[lol]

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