I just remembered a funny...when my dad was in the navy in the Vietnam era, mama sent him care packages. Anything that would travel well went. She made a fruitcake in September, soaked it with rum, and sent it off.
He said, "I was opening the package in the rack room (where the sailors sleep, beds are racks) and when I popped the tin open, it was like dogs who hadn't been fed in a month descending on a can of dog food. I was lucky to get ONE slice!" heh.
My mom makes fruitcake (I can't stand the stuff, myself), always has, always will. It's just how she is. Uses the little mini-loaf pans, too. Anyhoo, when I was 15 or 16, Mom made her fruitcakes in late August (School had just started), wrapped them up, and stuck' em in the freezer for handing out as Christmas gifts. Well, unbeknownst to my mother, I "adopted" a fruitcake. I put a different color rubber band around it to mark it as mine. Mom never added rum to her fruitcakes, and I had read enough to figure out that rum makes for a tastier fruitcake. So every week, I would take down "my" fruitcake, unwrap it, and pour enough rum into it to drown the entire Navy. Then I'd wrap it up and stick it back in the freezer.
Guess which Christmas fruitcake my grandmother got!
Comments 17
the Alton Brown recipe looks good, too. Maybe next year.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
http://sucrelefey.livejournal.com/99677.html
and mincemeat:
http://sucrelefey.livejournal.com/82353.html
Reply
He said, "I was opening the package in the rack room (where the sailors sleep, beds are racks) and when I popped the tin open, it was like dogs who hadn't been fed in a month descending on a can of dog food. I was lucky to get ONE slice!" heh.
Reply
a GOOD fruitcake starts fork fights...
Reply
Guess which Christmas fruitcake my grandmother got!
Reply
grandmom probably liked it
Reply
Leave a comment