SC - Sweets to the sweet, have some fruitcake...

[Bonne of Traquair]

>
> > Hmmm. I don't want to say it isn't, and that somebody plagiarized
> > somebody's work, but it seems quite possible that there's been some
> > writing on the five-fingered discount.
>
>It's also possible that material was re-used with permission.

And it's also possible, that if the durned fruitcake is such a big deal, 
that the two families, as well as many other Irish families, indeed had 
similar habits (the kids help) and similar impressions (it smelled great 
when baking). The descriptions are sentimentally gushing enough that you'd 
likely find quite the same in almost every cookbook describing holiday 
traditions, as well as in newspaper columns, magazine articles etc. And you 
could cross the water and find a couple hundred more in England, Wales and 
Scotland, or for that matter France, Itally and Bosnia.  One could say that 
such descriptions are themselves 'traditional'.

bonne
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