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

[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?