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Fruitcake….. yes or no ?

Yvonne Smith

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I love fruitcake and look forward to having some each year during the holiday season. I just noticed that Walmart had the little fruitcakes on their website now, and I ordered one for us, since Bobby likes fruitcake also.
This is something that my mom used to get every Christmas season, and she got the big round one that came in the decorative tin. Now days, those are pretty much unaffordable, unless you like to spend a lot of money for a little cake, but we usually see them marked down in the stores after the first of January, and that is when I try to buy mine.
 
I love a rich fruitcake …same with a pudding at Christmas ….I usually buy a cake from the Lions club, they are usually about $20 ..it would cost that to make them with food prices as they are now

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I too like fruitcake, but have gone away from the candied and artificially-colored fruit many years ago. I make mine using regular dried fruit such as apricots, figs, dates, cherries, pineapple, and whatever else I can find. I also use a gluten and grain-free cake mix from Bob's Red Mill.
 

Such a Nice Fruitcake!​

"Johnny Carson said it, although I never believed it. Every year he began the Christmas season by reminding us that “There’s only one fruitcake in the world. It’s been passed around from person to person since time immemorial, and it doesn’t matter how hard you try. You’ll never escape The Fruitcake.” (MORE)

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Another thing that we always had at Thanksgiving and at Christmas, was mincemeat pie. It was my most favorite holiday pie, but you just can’t find it anymore, either in store bakeries, or even as a frozen pie to take home and bake.
You can barely even find the packets of mincemeat , and those are really expensive when you do find them. I am not sure why that is, I don’t think they even add any actual minced meat to the cans they sell. It is just apples, raisins, sugar, and spices.
My Grandma Bailey used to can the minced venison each year, along with whatever else we did with the deer meat, and then she used it to make real mincemeat pie.

My English mother-in-law made the best mince tarts in the whole world ! She only used lard for the pastry, and it was so flaky and delicious, because that was what she grew up using in England.
She had to make the tarts when no one else was at home, or we would all eat them before they even had a chance to cool down !
 
My Uncle was always asking my Mom to make a mince meat pie for our Thanksgiving. Finally, after much coaxing, she made one. I think he was surprised, and shocked a little. He did eat some, but never mentioned it again. Growing up I always read about how the class bully threatened to "make mince meat" out of Sluggo, in the Nancy comics!
 
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Joe Riley said:
My Uncle was always asking my Mom to make a mince meat pie for our Thanksgiving. Finally, after much coaxing, she made one. I think he was surprised, and shocked a little. He did eat some, but never mentioned it again. Growing up I always read about how the class bully threatened to "make mince meat" out of Sluggo, in the Nancy comics!
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My mother made mincemeat pie once for Christmas too. We didn't like it. She never made it again.
 
We want to make another fruit cake this year. Jake oldest brother loved our fruit cakes, we sent him one every year, bless his heart he passed this year. We use a recipe from Jakes mom, it is so good.
I use brandy to soak my nuts and fruit in overnight, then after cooking lightly brush the cake with brandy before we put it up or freeze it.

Some we made 3 or 4 years ago, so it is time to make some more.
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My gran made a fruit cake ,didn’t use butter or any oils ….she used a packet of pastry mix for the flour / fat content it was always nice , actually it’s the first ever Christmas gift I ever …got in my life, a pudding and a fruit cake from Gran
 
Kate Ellery said:
Me to ..I make one every now and then it’s called carrot cake slice …more like cake then a slice - its nice 😊, all mixed in one bowl
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According to my sister, my Mom's Ice Cream Carrot Cake was a Diet Killer. I always told her "The offer still stands to eat your share to spare your Diet's life." She never gave it up. (Smart...) 🥕
 
When I lived in Auburn, Alabama, my band used to play somewhat regularly at the Delta Delta Delta house at UGA. We loved playing there. That was one of the few places we could get away with playing mostly stuff by the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and other similar blues rock songs. None of that Top 40 nonsense for those girls. 🍑

One time when we played there, they fed us wonderful southern fried chiken after we finished setting up and doing a sound check. KFC had nothin' on their cooks!
 
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