Fruitcake.....

[bluma123]

Why is everyone down on the fruitcake?

I want some homemade fruitcake that isn't 10 years old. Anyones nanna make it or has a recipe? Even better of it has booze in it.

[okie shooter]

I like a good fruit cake, and have only made one in my life, its one of those things you need to keep and allow them to age, thus most fruit cakes are actually made earler in the year, the liquored ones actually have their essance added mulplital times over a time span. Thus I would almost suggest getting a good one, not one of the bricks in the store, and enjoy that. I have one, not the bricks but a ring and have been working on it for about a week. Its almost cheaper to buy one as the fruits and such do add up when you make one.

[Les48]

Collage of the Ozarks makes one of the best fruit cakes I’ve tried. I could be a little bias since I spent a little time there. :icon_biggrin:

http://www.cofo.edu/products.asp?page=10

[Grasshopper]

Fruit cakes should be shot not shatt! Down with the fruit cake!:icon_biggrin:

[Geilt]

This time of year my step-mother makes little fruitcake squares.

Complete with brandy.

I'll see if I can't get the recipe from her.

[bluma123]

oh, I found a good one....think I might try it tomorrow

Recipe For Christmas Rum Cake
Ingredients:

* 1 or 2 qts. of rum
* 1 cup butter
* 1/8 tsp. sugar
* 2 large eggs
* 1 cup dried fruit
* baking powder
* 1 tsp. baking soda
* lemon juice
* brown sugar
* nuts

Directions:

1. Before you start, sample the rum to check for quality.
2. Select a large mixing bowl, measuring cup, etc. Check the rum again. It must be just right! To be sure the rum is of the highest quality, pour 1 level cup of rum into a glass and drink it as fast as you can. Repeat.
3. With an electric mixer, beat butter in large fluffy bowl. Add 1 seaspoon of thugar and beat again. Meanshile, it’s important to make sure the rum is of the finest quality—try another cup.
4. Open the second quart of rum if necessary. Add 1 arge leggs, 2 cups of fried druits and beat till high.
5. If the druits get stuck in the beats, just pru it loose with a drewscriver. Sample the rum again for cinscistincy.
6. Next, sift 3 cups of salt and feffer (it really doesn’t matter). Sample the wum again.
7. Sift 1 pint of lemon goose, add 1 bablespoon of brown thugar, of whatever color tou can find. Mix well. Grease oven, turn cake pan to 350 greeds.
8. Noe, pour the whole mess sinto the boven and ake. Check the crum again and go to bed.

[Geilt]

QUARTS of rum? Hmmm, nothing with that much rum could possibly be bad.

[Norton]

Bluma, I can't believe you brought this subject up.:thumbup:
I love real Southern Fruitcake and even asked my wife to get me one for Christmas last year. I remember eating a particular Brand when I was a kid called Claxton Fruitcake of Georgia. My Grandma said that was the best store Bought Fruitcake in the world. Did you know they used to put it in C rations (in a metal can) and I thought it tasted pretty good, at least better than pound cake or orange cake. People make fun of it but I don't care.. It is still better than those bland tastless brownies from a mix or cookies from a roll.

[bluma123]

I will have to try and find it. My daughter has never had fruitcake. I think she will either of love it of throw it at my head.

[Phirebug]

now i'm hungry for a fruitcake. you guys talk about some new gun i don't have, and i have to run out and buy one. you guys talk about some new scope i don't have, and i have to run out and buy one. i guess at least fruitcake's cheap :)

[Nazgul]

Why fruit cake...why?

[Hoot]

...snip... I remember eating a particular Brand when I was a kid called Claxton Fruitcake of Georgia....snip...

Ooh, I remember that fruitcake. My relatives in West Virginia sent me one once. Not sure how many hands it had passed through, but it was good. I loved the pecans. Warmed in the microwave releases the flavors. To each his (her) own, but I don't care for it with rum. It overwhelms my taste buds too much and is a distraction. Now the rum by itself is just dandy, especially when ice fishing. :wink:

Hoot

[bluma123]

I dunno...I saw a commercial about paying it forward with fruitcake and I thought...that fruitcake looks pretty good...I like fruitcake.

[ctdemolay0405]

Why fruit cake...why?

why bacon? we all have our tastes



but i think we all would like bacon more than fruitcake

[k98k792]

why bacon? we all have our tastes



but i think we all would like bacon more than fruitcake

You is the bacon king,of course you thinks dat! :jam:

[ctdemolay0405]

i never claimed to be the bacon king lol, i'm the king of being useless!

[ctdemolay0405]

i just noticed my sig has changed once again, not something i mind. from now on..... -the bacon king of connecticut yelling from a deep hole- FRUITCAKE SUCKS...... WITHOUT RUM

[okie shooter]

i just noticed my sig has changed once again, not something i mind. from now on..... -the bacon king of connecticut yelling from a deep hole- FRUITCAKE SUCKS...... WITHOUT RUM
So are there any bennifits to bacon king of conn, like there was for ferris buhler to be the sausage king of chicago.

[ctdemolay0405]

none that i'm aware of, ask K98

[Mp44]

My father used to make a Japanese fruit cake every Christmas.The kitchen would be sticky for a month afterwords.I'll look through his cook books and see if i can find and post a copy of the recipe.

[nevada]

2 qts rum: one to drink while dipping sliced fruit cake in the other.

[K.O.A.M.]

Home made fruitcake is great. Mass market fruitcake usually isn't.

[jmikey]

Claxton still makes the best commercial fruitcakes. Can't compare with my Grandmothers or my Aunts! Lots of hand shelled pecans and loads of gooey candied fruit topped off with a generous portion of good Tennessee "Sippin Whiskey".

[SteelCore]

Baconcake! ;)

One year I doubled up the alcohol on some rum balls, and man...they were soo powerful they tasted horrible!

If you could get 1-3 down for breakfast though, youd get a mild buzz b4 the food part of it started digesting.

After that, I do all my holiday cooking with Hashish instead:bash:

:nonono:...Uh, just kidding on the hash.

[ctdemolay0405]

there were the bacon cookies on the first post of the bacon thread.... i still wanna try those

[k98k792]

So are there any bennifits to bacon king of conn, like there was for ferris buhler to be the sausage king of chicago.

Every 5th piece of bacon you cook in Connecticut,must be put aside as tribute!
Then of course there is the Grand Parade during the big "Bacon Days" festival,which is accompanied by King Crimson playing "In the Court of the Bacon King"
Not to mention the hot "Bacon Wenches" that attend to his court!

All in all, a pretty sweet deal.

[SteelCore]

King Crimson playing "In the Court of the Bacon King"

Effing awesome! I'm there!

[LaraW]

I guess that makes me his Bacon Wench....

[ctdemolay0405]

in the words of the great Dexter Grif "I'm no stranger to sarcasm, sir"


+1 to anyone who can tell me where that character is from

[LaraW]

Red vs. Blue?

[ctdemolay0405]

I guess that makes me his Bacon Wench....
damn right, now only if you liked bacon..... doesnt this belong in the other thread.


and wouldnt this make bluma the fruitcake queen?

[ctdemolay0405]

Red vs. Blue?
yea, but u hate that show

[LaraW]

Yeah... not a fan of the bacon. :(

[ctdemolay0405]

sorry for hijacking ur thread with bacon bluma.... maybe we need bacon-fruitcake?

[LaraW]

Bacon-fruitcake-cookies.

[ctdemolay0405]

rum-bacon-fruitcake-cookies? (that was for you Steely and Nevada)

[k98k792]

No Lara,that would make you consort to the Bacon King .

Don't worry, Bluma will come along, put a smack down on us,and take the thread back!

[hunter_la5]

Yeah... not a fan of the bacon. :(

wow, that must be terrible.... how do you manage?

[Geilt]

Red vs. Blue?

Agreed. Red vs. Blue

[okie shooter]

Don't worry, Bluma will come along, put a smack down on us,and take the thread back!

I guess she might, but after reading about her desire for a fruit cake receipe with rum, and her discriptions of the rums use in them it might take her a while.

[nevada]

After enough rum balls it's: I'm no sarcasm to stranger"

[jmikey]

"By that run me again", nevada!

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[Nazgul]

Now bacon cake I would try!

[jmikey]

Ron, since I know you have good taste, I think I may just order one! Thanks for the info!
Mike

[bluma123]

BACON CAKE. Sounds perfect for PMS...you know, a little sweet a little salt...equals yum. Like eating beef jerky and throwing a few m&ms in there.

Shoot, I might just try that bacon cake.

I forgot the other Bluma quote. Oh fruitcake queen....ok...just because I dress like a tranny doesn't mean I am queen fruitcake.

HA

[XO3319]

Death to the Fruitcake!:airtight:

[jmikey]

:thumbup:Heretic! Fruitcake forever! Oh, and bacon too!

[okie shooter]

Well for all of the militaryrifle folks with the opposeing views of fruitcake, we could hold a "military firearms fruit cake taste off contest" some where with the first annual "militaryfirearm fruit cake target shoot" afterwards, the best of both worlds.

[jettag]

Fruitcakes that are ancient, made by monks.
Monks brew beer.
Beer is good.
Beerbread anyone?

[RandyCOG3]

Claxton still makes the best commercial fruitcakes.

So it would appear, but, really, how do you know?
I mean, if the production line burned down 10 years ago, but the warehouse was OK....

RandyCOG3

[jmikey]

:cheers:All you have to do is soak them in a little more whiskey!