Fruitcake

• fuzzy_dogs_mom Posted : 12/14/2006 2:10:18 PM That sounds just heavenly - fruitcake and eggnog.  Yummm! Especially if you add a little Southern Comfort to the eggnog. []   Joyce 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• espencer Posted : 12/14/2006 2:52:26 PM ORIGINAL: fuzzy_dogs_mom That sounds just heavenly - fruitcake and eggnog.  Yummm! Especially if you add a little Southern Comfort to the eggnog. []   Joyce   Dont you mean "Heavynly" instead? hehe talking about adding and extra couple pounds on the holidays [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• ron2 Posted : 12/14/2006 9:56:37 PM I was raised with the opinion that a fruitcake, especially an older one, was suitable for use as a wheel chock when working on you car. You put it behind a tire before you raise the jack to help keep the car from rolling back.   0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• houndlove Posted : 12/14/2006 10:31:25 PM Good thing I married into an Italian family. We get given Panetone, which is way way more paletable than fruit cake. Makes good french toast, too. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• lorib Posted : 12/15/2006 1:48:07 AM ORIGINAL: espencer Jim Gaffigan (comedian) says this about a fruit cake: Fruit = Good Cake = Great Fruitcake = Nasty Crap Oh God, I laughed so hard at this one that Gypsy woke up out of a dead sleep to glare at me! I am not a fan of the stuff either, but would try the white recipe if I could have sugar. My idea would be to put it out for the birds to eat, or set it at my curb with a "free" sign on it.  Hey, if you put ANYTHING out with a "free" sign on it here, it will be gone in a heartbeat! You could also use it for a brick in your walk way, part of a building, as a weapon in a car jacking, hmmm...maybe some idiot could be convinced that it was a new, conentrated form of drugs and I could sell it for big bucks!  My monetary problems woudl be solved!!! Naaaaah...I would probably get arrested for peddling fake dope![sm=rotfl.gif] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• leslie__chessies Posted : 12/15/2006 10:01:15 AM My brother and his friends have a fruitcake "chain letter" every year.  The fruitcake is placed on the doorstep of a friend with a letter saying to sign your name on the letter and deliver it to another friend.  Per the letter, the house where the fruitcake resides at midnight of Christmas Eve must host a Superbowl Party for all of those listed on the letter.  Needless to say, there is always a mad scramble on Christmas Eve trying to ditch the stale fruitcake before the stroke of midnight. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• karin Posted : 12/15/2006 7:46:43 PM That sounds like fun! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• tacran Posted : 12/15/2006 8:11:05 PM Fruitcake is like some other "infamous" foods that have a bad rap (liver, brussel sprouts, etc.).  I think a lot depends on who cooks/bakes them.  I generally don't like fruitcake, but I've had a few pieces in my lifetime that were pretty good because they were homemade by someone with an awesome gourmet recipe - not a pre-packaged kind that came from a mail order company or someplace like that.    The idea about a chain-fruitcake is hysterical!  Do they serve the fruitcake at the Super Bowl party?  Perhaps they could carve it into a bowl-shape to hold the dip for the chips! [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• spiritdogs Posted : 12/15/2006 8:36:37 PM Callie - send that recipe my way before Jan. 1 and someone makes me resolve not to eat it LOL. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• ladiebug Posted : 12/16/2006 2:13:27 PM I'll have to try Callie's recipe.  I've had both good and bad.  The Italian pannetone I enjoyed most as French toast, otherwise I found it too dry. Anyway, I thought I'd give this one a try, heard it's good: [linkhttp://www.monasteryfruitcake.org/products.asp]http://www.monasteryfruitcake.org/products.asp[/link] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• fuzzy_dogs_mom Posted : 12/16/2006 5:13:11 PM Mmmm.  That one does look good.  I think I may go shopping at the Abbey.   Joyce 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Mikaela Ritter Posted : 12/16/2006 5:27:11 PM My family has a big Christmas get together and we all exchange presents...one year someone gave a fruitcake to someone as a joke and the next year that person gave it to someone else and it's just gone on from there.  We write down who had it last on the back of the box so we know who not to give it to...it's been cycling around for like 5+ years I think [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• calliecritturs Posted : 12/16/2006 5:28:28 PM Anne -- the recipe's on its way to you.  But I"m not gonna promise to make you not eat it.   Generally I make the 2 loaves that the one 'recipe' makes but I put dividers in the pans so it makes 4 smaller 'cakes'.  Billy just almost can NOT wait this year -- ever since I was stirring that vanilla, sugar and butter together he's been completely focused on those cakes.  "just a crumb, Mom, PLEASE???" 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• fuzzy_dogs_mom Posted : 12/16/2006 5:29:52 PM That's hilarious. [sm=rotfl.gif]Has anyone ever  been tempted to just slice into it to see how it's held up?  Brandy is supposed to be some sort of presrvative, I think.   Joyce 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Mikaela Ritter Posted : 12/16/2006 5:35:41 PM One of my pet rats found it once and nibbled the corner off the cardboard box and into the corner of the cake itself (which just adds to the hilarity of the fruitcake exchange - looks even better now that it's all nibbled on!)....I know I couldn't help but peek in and see what it looked like, but I've forgotten now.  I think it was very hard and very...square []  Sort of like a brick, only....somehow made out of cake and fruit.   0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login