[Sca-cooks] Fruit cakes - gluten free

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Johnnae wrote:
> Since I am a librarian with cookbooks, I often get recipe requests from 
> people. The most recent one was for gluten free fruit cakes. I sent along
> some suggestions, with the caveat that I've never made a flour free
> fruitcake. A couple of these using ground almonds look pretty good actually. 
> http://www.organicauthority.com/desserts/not-your-grammas-fruitcake-recipe-gluten-free-and-fabulous.html
>
> At the risk of starting a fruit cake joke thread, I thought I'd ask if 
> anyone here has a recipe that they have tried or even a mail order source.

Well, the cook of the best fruit cake i ever ate refused to reveal his recipe. The cake had a base of wheat flour (so not gluten free), massive amounts of GOOD dried real fruit (not those detestable plastic-y red and green former cherries, plastic-y cubes of citron and angelica, etc.). It was so long ago - 1970s or 80s - that i don't remember exactly what fruits were in it, just what was not. But i do recall apricots and, IIRC, pecans. Rather than a dry weighty brick that you could use to deter an obnoxious relative or guest, it was moist and tender and flavorful. I imagine that there is now a similar recipe on-line somewhere... I guess i should look.

Someone sometimes called Urtatim