[Sca-cooks] One of the original fruitcakes has beenadmitted to ;

[Johnna Holloway]

At this point it's time to mention that there is an excellent book
that details much of the history of the 12th Night and "plum" cakes
and the holiday traditions associated with them.
Bridget Ann Henisch (author of Fast and Feast) is the author
and the title was Cakes and Characters. An English Christmas
Tradition. Prospect Books, 1984.

Johnnae

Edouard de Bruyerecourt wrote:

>At home (i.e. not with me during holiday travel) I have a very late 19th
>century home encyclopaedia with a wedding cake recipe that very much looks
>like a recipe for fruitcake. I don't recall if it calls for just fruit,
>candying the fruit, or using candied fruit. I expect it might be a more
>digestible confection than modern commercial varieties. Althought it did
>occur to me that one of the banes of modern fruitcakes, that they don't 'go
>bad' (any more than they are) would be a boon to a wedding cake being saved
>for the first aniversary.
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