wispfox

Must be careful to not buy things which will go bad when I'm gone for a week...

although i personally love just about all fruitcake, this had to be said...

does fruitcake *ever* go bad?

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I don't know!

But that's not all I'm going to the store for. ;)

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a-HA! :)

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fraterrisus

ya know, someone you know really loves to make lots of fruitcake for her friends. :)

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wcg.livejournal.com

It may, eventually, but it would take a very long time. In western Canada it's traditional for the top layer of a wedding cake (the Bride's cake) to be fruitcake, and to be saved for consumption on the 25th Anniversary.

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Loves to, or just does a lot of it? :)

(and yes, I did comment on that most recent post, and that post is what reminded me of fruitcake)

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All you have to do is ask!

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Hee! Ok, then 'would you please make me a fruitcake?'. :)

Fruitcake would be happy-making, since it's been years since I've had any.

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how neat! one of my favorite things to do is cook and have a bunch of people over to eat so i can enjoy seeing them enjoy what i've made... is it anything like that for you, also?

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It would be my pleasure! You will probably get it after Christmas, though, because this week is practically gone already. Is that okay? :)

Or I could just mail you the recipe. It's easy.

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I do love that! But this is more the pleasure of making people's bellies happy and full of spicy fruity cake. I do thrive on the thanks, though. :)

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Is that okay? :)

It's totally ok. And, since I'm gone on the other coast from Xmas till New Years, you have even more time! ;) (not that I'm in any rush, actually - so no rushing on my account!)

Or I could just mail you the recipe. It's easy.

I probably want the recipe anyway, actually, but I tend to be very poor at having enough initiative to cook anything ever. :)

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Also, as for your subject line - I wasn't entirely sure about the circumstances of you making them. Did not want to be asking when I didn't know if you enjoyed them, nor if you were tired of making them. :)

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ahhh. i was curious, partially, because we have a christmas cake (a fruitcake with marzipan and icing, delicious when fresh :) ) purchased in the UK last year still on our shelf.

unfortunately, i don't think we wrapped it tightly enough and it has likely solidified into a brick.

we keep it primarily for scientific purposes at this point. :)

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out of curiosity, is this a recipe in a well known source, or is it an ancestral family recipe? :)

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opalmirror.livejournal.com

I've tried the soy nog lately. Tastes awesome. Probably doesn't go bad as quickly as the milk-based stuff.

Fruitcake? Fruitcake? Why get fruitcake when there's plenty like me around? Fruitcake doesn't go bad for years and you can keep passing them around the family as mathoms.

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