Christmas Fruitcake -- A Delicious Recipe for a Holiday Tradition
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It's been a Christmas tradition for a number of years with the first recipe dating back to ancient Rome!
Growing up in Northeastern Ohio, we generally received a fruitcake each Christmas. Personally, I don't mind a little bit of fruitcake during the holidays despite the fact that the fruitcake fell out of favor within the past few decades.
I heard on The Today Show in an episode discussing Best Christmas Presents that a fruitcake would make a pitiful gift! Yes, imagine that! Well, I think if you look for a high-quality fruitcake or take the time to make your own, that it can be appreciated rather than pitied. Now, why do you suppose that the Fruitcake has been given some a bad rating? Drop me a line at the end of the lens and tell me your take on the Christmas Fruitcake! P.S. December 27th is National Fruitcake Day.
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A Yummy Christmas Fruitcake -- A Holiday Tradition
The earliest recipe for Fruitcake
The earliest recipe from ancient Rome lists pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins that were mixed into barley mash.
A Jolly Christmas Fruitcake Recipe
Ah, a little bourbon makes it jolly!
4 cups of sifted flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
4 teaspoons of nutmeg
1 cup of butter
2 cups of sugar
6 whole eggs
1/2 cup of bourbon
4 cups of pecans, coarsely chopped
1 pound of seeded light raisins
1/2 cup of candied cherries--green and red
Sift flour and baking powder and nutmeg together. Cream butter, add sugar and cream until fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add dry ingredients alternately with bourbon. Stir in nuts, raisins and cherries.
Turn mixture into well greased 10" tube pan. Bake at 300ºF for 2 hours or until straw inserted in cake comes out clean.
Remove from oven and let stand in pan for 20 minutes. Take out of pan and cool on rack. If you wish, sprinkle more bourbon on cake when it has cooled.
Wrap in foil or put in container. Before serving, sift powdered sugar over surface.
Classic Fruitcake Recipe
How to Cook Classic Christmas Meals : Traditional Fruit Cake Recipe
Make your Christmas dishes memorable. Learn how to make traditional fruit cake from scratch in this free how-to instructional video clip on classic Christmas cooking. Expert: Louis Ortiz Bio: Louis Ortiz is a professional chef instructor at a culinary institute. He has been working in the culinary industry for 10 years. Filmmaker: Emily Thomas
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What the heck is a Fruitcake anyway?
Fruitcake (or fruit cake) is a cake made with chopped candied fruit and/or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and (optionally) soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated. Fruitcakes are often served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.
Favorite Fruitcakes: Recipes, Legends, and Lore
Favorite Fruitcakes: Recipes, Legends, and Lore from the World's Best Cooks and Eaters
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A charming illustrated gift book that finally pays deserved homage to the fruitcake--with 38 delicious traditional recipes as well as funny and thoughtful commentary from some of the most revered voices in cooking and literature, including Julia Child, James Beard, and Eudora Welty.
Claxton Christmas Fruitcake
Claxton Fruitcake
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Claxton Fruitcake Five Pound Regular Recipe. Known the world over for old-fashioned goodness and traditional holiday appeal. Shipped fresh year round. Great for slicing at holiday parties. Claxton Fruit Cake is the "Choice of Millions Since 1910." $20.99.
Fruitcake and Creamed Honey Pack
Fruitcake and Creamed Honey Pack
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Wisconsin Christmas Fruitcake
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Wisconsin Fruit Cake - 2 lbs
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Sign up to be notified when this is available -- this is a HOT seller! Made with 90 score Grade A Wisconsin butter. Rum soaked raisins, brandy flavor, fancy pecan halves. Quality fruits without citron filler. 32 slices - Large 2 lb cake. $38.95.
A Fruitcake Christmas
Hermie and Friends: A Fruitcake Christmas
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It's Christmastime in the garden and Hermie and his friends are hustling and bustling to prepare for the big day. But more than anything they all eagerly anticipate the crowning moment of the holiday season: the arrival of Grannypillar's scrumptious fruitcake. Suddenly, Christmas is hijacked when Iggy and Ziggy Cockroach - the greediest bugs in the garden - steal Grannypillar's fruitcake. How will Christmas survive?
But deep in the hearts of the youngest of hearts, the true meaning of Christmas shines through. Hailey and Bailey, through an act of unheard generosity, together remind the garden that the celebration of Christmas is nothing about fruitcake, but about God's gift to us.
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Ah, Christmas Cakes -- the Ultimate Book
The Ultimate Book of Christmas Cakes
The Ultimate Book of Christmas Cakes (The Creative Cakes Series)
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Hardcover: 96 pages.
Publisher: Rutland Group (August 1996).
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Well, hey Julia! I just found your lens through a search engine. I just did a lens on TheFruitcake Lady a few weeks ago, you gotta come see it! Oh, your lens is beautiful, of course and yes fruitcake is awesome and makes a great Christmas gift.
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2Eklectik wrote...
I'm the only one in my family that loves fruitcake. Every year my wife gets me one, but has not yet been tempted enough to try it. Maybe this year I'll make my own and get the kids to try some too. It's never too early to start loving Fruitcake. Thanks for the recipe.
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The Fruitcake Lady?
Did you know that Marie Rudisill, aka "The Fruitcake Lady," made her first Tonight Show with Jay Leno appearance in December 2000 in a now classic segment, when she helped Jay Leno and Mel Gibson make fruitcake? For a bit of fun this year, maybe you'd like to try her book.
Ask the Fruitcake Lady!
This looks like a fun book!
Ask the Fruitcake Lady: Everything You Would Already Know If You Had Any Sense
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Marie Rudisill, aka "The Fruitcake Lady," made her first Tonight Show with Jay Leno appearance in December 2000 in a now classic segment, when she helped Jay Leno and Mel Gibson make fruitcake.
Since 2002 she has regularly dished out sassy advice to fans in her popular segment called "Ask The Fruitcake Lady."A frenzied mother asks, "My teenage son sleeps all the time. How do I get him to help around the house?" The Fruitcake Lady responds with a no-nonsense answer: "Well, all you got to do is get up there and say, Get your ass out of the bed! And I mean get it out!'"
Ask the Fruitcake Lady will gather together some of Marie's finest morsels of wisdom and advice, including:-Spicy advice on profanity in children -Nutty wisdom of talking to houseplants -Dishing out a good helping of sass when she addresses curing hangovers -Outrageous ways of dealing with mothers-in-law and bachelor parties -Finding a rich man to marry -What a single, soon-to-be 40 woman needs more than a man.
"The Fruitcake Lady" is not just any nonagenarian from Florida. She is Truman Capote's aunt, and it was her book, Fruitcake: Memories of Truman Capote and Sook, which brought her to the attention of Jay Leno. Her quips to viewers' questions have made her a favorite on the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
"Nutty as a fruitcake was derived in 1935."
Fruitcake : Memories of Truman Capote and Sook
Fruitcake : Memories of Truman Capote and Sook
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Publisher: Hill Street Press (November 2000).
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Why the #1 holiday is Christmas!
Christmas (), also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.Christmas, Merriam-Webster. Retrieved October 6, 2008."Christmas," MSN Encarta. Retrieved October 6, 2008."Christmas", The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini system of dating, is thought to have occurred between 7 and 2 BC.Smith, Mark D. "Of Jesus and Quirinius." Catholic Biblical Quarterly; Apr2000, Vol. 62 Issue 2, pp292-293.Pearson, Brook W. R. "The Lucan Censuses, Revisited." Catholic Biblical Quarterly; Apr99, Vol. 61 Issue 2, p282. December 25 is not known to be Jesus' actual date of birth, and the date may have been chosen to correspond with either a Roman festival"Christmas", EncartaRoll, Susan K., Toward the Origins of Christmas, (Peeters Publishers, 1995), p.130.Tighe, William J., "Calculating Christmas". or the winter solstice.Newton, Isaac, Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733). Ch. XI.A sun connection is possible because Christians consider Jesus to be the "sun of righteousness" prophesied in Malachi 4:2.
Modern customs of the holiday include gift-giving, Church celebrations, and the display of various decorations?including the Christmas tree, lights, mistletoe, nativity scenes, and holly. Santa Claus (also referred to as Father Christmas, although the two figures have different origins) is a popular mythological figure often associated with bringing gifts at Christmas for children. Santa is generally believed to be the result of a syncretization between Saint Nicholas and elements from pagan Nordic and Christian mythology, and his modern appearance is believed to have originated in 19th century media.
Christmas is celebrated throughout the Christian population, but is also celebrated by many non-Christians as a secular, cultural festival. Because gift-giving and several other aspects of the holiday involve heightened economic activity among both Christians and non-Christians, Christmas has become a major event for many retailers.
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