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

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

One of my cookbooks (I believe it's Better Homes and Gardens, but I'm not sure) had recipes for TWO wedding cakes: the traditional white cake, and a light fruit cake, referred to as "Groom's Cake".  Both looked pretty interesting, but I've never made either.

Regards,
Brekke
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Edouard de Bruyerecourt 
  To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org 
  Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] One of the original fruitcakes has beenadmitted to ;


  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.

  Edouard



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