Every year, I hear about re-gifted fruit cake. How everybody hates them.
Well, I'm here to help.
IF you send me your lost, and unwanted fruitcake, I'll eat them! (The ones I don't get to first, the kids may steal from me!)
Nate Dearyan
1189 Thunder Mtn. Rd.
Caddo Gap, AR 71935
I can promise them a good home, where they will be treated with affection, and tender loving care, until EOL. (End of Life)
Thank you!
And, for the Category Cops, well, eating fruitcake aught to be an Olympic sport. I'm sure I'd take the gold, if they included it!
Nate
Look in the cookbook
I put my mother's recipe in there and it makes a really good fruitcake. I can guarantee that even if you don't like the commercial garbage, you'll like my mom's.
I willingly accept Deluxe Fruitcake from Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana. It's the only one I've had over the years that I actually like. Of course, the odds of getting one is not good, so I usually go buy one or two when I am in the area. I think they also have a new outlet in Hillsboro, so sooner or later I will be driving by.
Good luck Nate.
There's a lot of fruitcakes on this board
maybe we should box them up and send them your way.
I have one I’ll gladly send you, and its “sports qualified” as a shot put. Of course I don’t use it as such, it’s currently deployed as a doorstop. I’m sure the fruitcake is still edible, just saw off about a half an inch or so on each side and voila! Just like you do with moldy cheese.
Have a great weekend!B-)
As a side note SWMBO has a great recipe from "Grandmaw" in Whigham, Georgia.
White Fruit Cake Recipe (for experienced cooks)
Ingredients:
1 and ½ c butter
2 c sugar
6 eggs
4 c flour all purpose
Ingredients:
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla extract
½ c whiskey or ¼ c whiskey and ¼ c water
1 lb candied cherries and 1 lb candied pineapple
1 qt pecans
Extra ½ c flour to roll fruit and nuts in
Directions:
Toss fruit, nuts, and ½ c flower together in a bowl
Using an electric mixer cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time beating each egg well.
Add tsp. vanilla
Add ½ c whiskey alternately with dry ingredients.
Last add fruit and nuts that have been tossed in flour.
Bake in slow oven. (Grandmaw always baked at 275 degrees for 2 ½ hours but SWMBO found 300 degrees for 3 ½ hours worked in her oven.)
I always thought there was just ONE fruitcake in the whole world and it just got passed around and around and around...
My Sister in law married a fruit cake. Tossed him, and some other gal got him. He was a fine fellow, if you wanted to play video games. Or go fishing. I did not fish enough, and computer games... well I had better things to do!
N
One of my neighbors when I was a teen made homemade fruit cake that was out of this world, used rum instead of whiskey and none of that nasty candied fruit. She used dates, figs, raisins and dried oranges, would have to lock them in the closet or her son and I would wipe them out before she could give them as gifts.
She also made a killer peanut butter pie and would make several of those as diversions to keep us out of the fruitcake.
