Food Friday: Christmas Fruit Cake
Every year I hear people complaining about fruit cake and every year no one shares a slice with me. Yes, I like fruit cake. When I think of fruit cake I remember an old neighbor who would serve it with tea in a cute tea set complete with a knitted tea cozy.
So here's not one but two fruit cake recipes for you from Recipes from Our Redeemer's (Benson, Minnesota, 1964)
So here's not one but two fruit cake recipes for you from Recipes from Our Redeemer's (Benson, Minnesota, 1964)
Oh, I remember "flouring" the raisins when I was a child and the grownups were making fruit cake -- which seemed to take an entire afternoon. First, though, we had to shell the pecans...a perilous undertaking, because you had to carefully pick out those little bitter dark strips or they'd ruin the cake. This was in the South.
ReplyDeleteHi Mariann!
ReplyDeleteShelling nuts does sound like a perilous undertaking. What I have found interesting is that some recipes include large amounts of alcohol while others don't have a drop, presumably for the tea-totalars.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a very Merry Christmas!
Gena