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! The Christmas Fruitcake a holiday tradition!
What about the Christmas Fruitcake? 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. The fruitcake is such a special treat for the holidays.
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! Let's celebrate: December 27th is National Fruitcake Day.
On December 21, 2009 this lens earned the Purple Star Award for quality content.
Christmas Fruitcake : A Delicious Recipe was originally created on December 20, 2007.
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Do you love this Holiday traditional food the Christmas Fruitcake?
A Yummy Christmas Fruitcake -- A Holiday Tradition
Christmas Fruitcake pics
The earliest recipe for Christmas Fruitcake
The earliest Christmas Fruitcake recipe, from ancient Rome, lists pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins mixed into barley mash.
A Traditional Christmas Fruitcake Recipe
I like a little libation added i.e. bourbon for example!
- Serves: 8 Xmas Party People
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 3 hours
Ingredients
- 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 coarsely chopped pecans
- 1 pound of seeded light raisins
- 1/2 cup of candied red and green cherries
Instructions
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 300º F 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.
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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.
Did you know? National Fruit Cake Month is celebrated the whole month of December!
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Christmas Fruitcake Zone
You can select from a variety of delicious Christmas Fruitcake. For yourself and Christmas gift-giving!
Claxton Christmas Fruitcake
Claxton Fruit Cake is the "Choice of Millions since 1910"
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Claxton Christmas Fruitcake Traditional 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."
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Grandmas Original Fruit and Nut Cake Ring
Grandmas know how to bake a Christmas Fruitcake
Grandmas Original Fruit and Nut Cake Ring
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* Two pound Christmas Fruitcake in a holiday theme box
* Fresh raisins, walnuts, pecans, pineapple, whole cherries
* Warm taste of bonded American bourbon, imported brandy and rum
* Great gift for giving and entertaining
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Tortuga Original Caribbean Rum Cake > Delicious Christmas Fruitcake
When you want a little kick > rum cake!
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* Moist and luscious, authentic rum cake
* A four-generations old family recipe
* Baked in the Caribbean
* Hand glazed with 5 year old Tortuga rum
* Original golden with walnuts
* 16 oz cake serves 6 to 8
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Trappist Abbey Christmas Fruitcake
Made by the Trappist monks of Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey
Fruitcake From Trappist Abbey (1 pound)
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Made by the Trappist monks of Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey in Layfayette; Oregon!
* A dark; old-style flavorful cake
* Filled with fruits and nuts
* Soaked in fine brandy and perfectly aged
* 16 ounces; 1 lb.
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Wisconsin Christmas Fruitcake
The traditional Christmas Fruitcake !
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We've found the perfect balance of fruits and nuts. Fruits and nuts gently folded into a buttery-rich cake batter. Treat yourself and your friends to the finest fruitcake in America. 1 lb. 4 oz. loaf.
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Try Christmas Fruitcake from Jane Parker
A selection of sizes and light or dark Christmas Fruitcake!
| 72 oz Light Fruit Cake
| 32 oz Dark Fruit Cake
* Guaranteed 2/3 fruit & nuts!
* Contains no alcohol
* Rich, brandy - like flavor
* Moist and delicious fruitcake you remember from Christmases past
* A traditional holiday favorite - sold only on the East Coast & now online!
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Hardcover: 96 pages.
Publisher: Rutland Group (August 1996).
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- Pub chain ties up food deals with Yorkshire firms
- The Keighley-based brewer has introduced fruit cake and cheese to its premium dining pub menus, using cake especially baked in Shipley and cheese from North Yorkshire. The cake, made with Taylor's award-winning Landlord bitter, is being produced by ...
- Princess Diana's Cake Recreated at Mall of America
- Diana's original wedding cake was five tiers and made of fruit cake. But these decorators had to be imaginative designing their cakes, since there are no complete photos of what the cake really looks like. The winning baker gets $500 and their cake ...
- Dream wedding for brave Kathy (31) who has just months to live
- The couple had a three-tier wedding cake, which contained fruit cake, chocolate cake and sponge cake, and was decorated with green and yellow icing to echo their springtime theme and they had parcel boxes on the tables as centre-pieces at the reception ...
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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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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!
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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
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Hardcover: 96 pages.
Publisher: Hill Street Press (November 2000).
Drop me a line ... Are you a Christmas Fruitcake fan or not?
I can't get enough of the Christmas Fruitcake!
Ask the Fruitcake Lady: Everything You Would Already Know If You Had Any Sense
Have any fond Fruitcake memories? Do you have a favorite fruitcake? Love getting a fruitcake for Christmas or not???
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GetFactsnotHype
Jan 26, 2012 @ 7:59 pm | delete
- I like fruitcake, even though I do not celebrate Christmas.
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COUNTRYLUTHIER
Jan 8, 2012 @ 10:32 pm | delete
- Sans plastic fruit, we might have a deal!
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sorana
Dec 30, 2011 @ 7:26 pm | delete
- I didn't know there was a National Fruitcake Day. I love fruitcake especially for Christmas.
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cffutah
Dec 23, 2011 @ 7:19 pm | delete
- use this more for a gag gift, sorry.
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KathyT
Dec 22, 2011 @ 1:02 pm | delete
- When I was a twirler (majorette) in High School, we actually had to go door-to-door selling holiday fruit cakes as a fundraiser. Talk about a tough way to go! ha ha! I personally do NOT like fruitcake, but my hubby loves them - at least the way his family makes them. Great lens! :) Kath
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