King Arthur's Fruitcake

[browngirl]

The King Arthur Flour Blog posted a lovely article about fruitcake that made me wistful. Next year I really hope to resume my Fruitcake Project!

Comments

[quietann.livejournal.com]

I hope you can, too. I've never asked to be included, but I've always been tempted (and would happily supply ingredients.)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *blushes a lot*

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*ttakes notes on your ideal non-fruit cake*

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What is your fruitcake project?

wakanomori (husband) is English, and when we were living with his parents, I learned how to make Christmas pudding from his mom--which is essentially a fruitcake: but **very moist** (it's cooked by being boiled for many hours, and then it soaks in alcohol for a month… and if I were going to have had it ready for Christmas this year, I'd have needed to start it a few weeks ago…)

… anyway, I like it very much. You pour brandy on it on Christmas day and set it on fire, and then eat it :-)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, my fruitcake project. Um, everyone is starting to yell downstairs, here's a link or three before I run to try to help.

http://browngirl.livejournal.com/524609.html

http://browngirl.livejournal.com/535184.html

http://browngirl.livejournal.com/686198.html

http://browngirl.livejournal.com/687365.html

http://browngirl.livejournal.com/693038.html

So I came back to reply properly, though those links should prove entertaining. My family's from Jamaica, and one of the culinary inheritances from Britain is the fruitcake tradition, so most years of the last decade I've made and sent out fruitcakes. Next year, I hope!

(Mmm, steamed pudding. Also delicious!)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wow, you are magnificent!! (And looking at those entries from 2004, I so long for the old days of LJ… but what can you do, things change, etc. etc….)

There's a woman I know, a friend of a friend here, whose family is also from Jamaica, and one year, when I was glum about having not made a Christmas pudding for my husband, she drove over with a fruitcake for us! What a sweetie, right?