[Sca-cooks] Fruitcakes

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Kathleen A Roberts:
>On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:57:06 GMT
>  "rtanhil" <rtanhil at fast.net> wrote:
>>Sad, but true:
>>
>>I am one of the 4 people on Earth that like fruitcake.
>>Another is my mother, whom I blame.
>
>guess that makes me the third. 8)  and dundee cake.
>
>wonder who number four is.

Possibly me. I'm a fan of the standard Irish Christmas Cake, which 
has a lot of dried fruit and nuts, a little bit of candied peel (I 
believe the recipe I have someplace specifies orange and lemon peel, 
and doesn't mention citron, which is probably what people who 
complain about fruitcake hate the most). The actual cake portion is 
actually quite good: largely indistinguishable from pound cake. It 
turns somewhat dark from the raisins and such, though. You can make 
it in advance and "feed" it a drop or two of something for medicinal 
purposes if you want, but before serving it gets a spackling of 
almond paste or a thin coating of marzipan, and then a very thin 
layer of Royal Icing.

In general, I'm not a big fan of the darker, heavier fruitcakes, 
although I think I had something that was, I think, an English-style 
fruitcake that may have been tampered with by some Jamaicans, and 
that was quite good...

"Do we baaaake the cake? No, no, no, no! Do we steeeeaaaam the cake? 
No, no, no..."

(50 extra super special points for the first person to get _that_ 
obscure reference.)

Adamantius
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brioche."
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Rousseau, "Confessions", pub 1782

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