Favorite fruitcakes was [Sca-cooks] Flying Haggis

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Sue Clemenger wrote:

> So, Master A, (or anyone else, of course <g>), what's your favorite
> fruitcake? I actually like some of it, although I don't care for the
> ones made with commercial candied fruit....there's just something nasty
> and unnatural about green pineapple.....

I like Malachi McCormick's Irish-type fruitcake (I believe he's from Cork: it may be typical of that area) which is very nearly a pound cake with added fruit. No green pineapple, although I think he includes some candied citron peel, along with the usual currants, sultanas, almonds, etc. This is anomalous to my experience in its use of a white pound-cake-type base along with the typical "daily feeding" of the firewater of your choice. Most of the fruitcakes that seem to send children running in terror and strong men climbing trees to escape them have been, in my own experience, darker fruitcakes made with treacle or molasses, although of course a sufficiency of dark fruits will color the cake, too. In fairly typical British Isles fruitcake fashion, it is then covered with almond paste to seal in moisture, then iced with something akin to royal icing...


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