[Sca-cooks] Re. Strange christmas dishes (fruit cake & Plural of "Lochac) OP

[Olwen the Odd]

>Ohhh! <light bulb flashes on above Marion's head and then fuses> - a
>"christmas cake" is a Fruit cake. It can have icing on it or not, and
>contain alcohol in it's cooking process or not (I prefer mine to be a light
>madira fruit cake sans alcohol flavouring).  I can probably rat up a recipe
>if you'd like [one of my work mates has a family tradition that they all
>gather together in September each year and make the dozen or so family
>Christmas cakes - masses of fruit peel and glaced cherries and oddles of
>rum
>in the blending process. The cakes are then stored in airtight containers
>until christmas when they get devoured. My own family has a tradition of
>shopping for one each year ;-p]
>
>Mari
>(catching up on old posts and recipe requests tonight)

Yes.  Do rat up a recipe for us, won't you please dearie?
Olwen

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