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marieToo -> RE: Fruit Cake(Tradition) Love It Or Hate It? (12/23/2006 7:39:14 AM)
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ORIGINAL: mistoferin
My father really loves a good traditional fruit cake. I make them for him and they are ALOT of work. You have to start by soaking the fruits in rum for 6 weeks. Then you make the batter and make the cakes. You wrap them in foil and seal them in a tin container with a tight fitting lid. Every 3rd day for the next 3 months you open them and spoon rum over the top and seal them back up. I don't think they are much like the ones you buy at the store though.
(He's also really into homemade mincemeat and plum pudding....which are very time consuming also.)
This brought back some memories, erin.
I was going to answer the thread by saying that most people really don't know what a good homemade fruitcake tastes like.
My father used to make fruitcake when I was a kid. And it was a similiar thing to what you describe...I remember him opening the tin it was stored in and adding rum periodically, it was like a baby he was taking care of. Adding the rum, wrapping it, storing it etc.
It is quite a project, but worth it. It was dark and heavy and just a little bit sticky and so flavorful. It would last for like a year. Its like it never went bad. We would just open it up and take a thin slice now and again. The store-bought fruit cakes dont even compare. But to answer the OP, I still like them, but not as much as homemade.
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