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#285464 - 08/15/17 07:31 PM Indestructible Fruitcake!
dougwalkabout Offline
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No, this is not a political thread! laugh

Researchers in Antarctica find 106-year-old British fruitcake from the Scott expedition in "almost edible" condition:

http://nationalpost.com/life/food/fruitc...69-9ffb658d8cf3

Now you know what to ask for this Christmas!

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#285465 - 08/15/17 08:05 PM Re: Indestructible Fruitcake! [Re: dougwalkabout]
haertig Offline
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It's a little known fact, but there are only four fruitcakes that have ever been made worldwide. People just keep re-sending those same four to other friends/relatives at Christmas, year after year. I probably have the same one you had back in 2003 sitting in my freezer right now, waiting to be mailed out again in a few short months.

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#285467 - 08/15/17 09:07 PM Re: Indestructible Fruitcake! [Re: dougwalkabout]
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Actually, there were five. The number dwindled to four for 106 years but thankfully that has been rectified. grin

(Okay, I'm not actually one to diss fruitcake. I was raised on the homemade variety, baked with care and flavour and brandy or dark rum. I will grant that the commercial ones appear to be baked primarily for shipping durability though.)


Edited by dougwalkabout (08/15/17 09:09 PM)

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#285468 - 08/15/17 09:55 PM Re: Indestructible Fruitcake! [Re: dougwalkabout]
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Hey! Cut it out and pass that fruitcake to me, you haters!! LOL!

I love fruit cake!! Especially the moist, dark, no rum or icing, and lots of nuts and fruit kind. It's cake and trail mix, for heaven's sake! What's not to like!!

Of course, I do blame my low alcohol tolerance today on the fruit cakes my mom made for Christmas 1980. She put them in the cold cellar in the Fall, so they would be ready for Christmas. Or maybe that was her mincemeat. Or both. (The mincemeat may have had rum in it too, come to think of it. LOL!) I'm not sure how many fruit cakes we ate, or how many jars of mincemeat, but my brother and I finished them all before the day before Christmas Eve. At 46 years old, I have rarely been in so much trouble.
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#285469 - 08/15/17 10:44 PM Re: Indestructible Fruitcake! [Re: haertig]
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Originally Posted By: haertig
I probably have the same one you had back in 2003 sitting in my freezer right now, waiting to be mailed out again in a few short months.


Six degrees of fruitcake separation?

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#285470 - 08/15/17 11:01 PM Re: Indestructible Fruitcake! [Re: dougwalkabout]
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Remember the C Ration pound cake. How come the US Govt never put fruit cake into the C Rations? Too much rum????
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#285471 - 08/15/17 11:07 PM Re: Indestructible Fruitcake! [Re: bacpacjac]
Jeanette_Isabelle Online   content
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Originally Posted By: bacpacjac
Of course, I do blame my low alcohol tolerance today on the fruit cakes my mom made for Christmas 1980. She put them in the cold cellar in the Fall, so they would be ready for Christmas. Or maybe that was her mincemeat. Or both. (The mincemeat may have had rum in it too, come to think of it. LOL!) I'm not sure how many fruit cakes we ate, or how many jars of mincemeat, but my brother and I finished them all before the day before Christmas Eve. At 46 years old, I have rarely been in so much trouble.

It's the get to know you stories like this that I enjoy reading on ETS.

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#285479 - 08/16/17 05:46 PM Re: Indestructible Fruitcake! [Re: dougwalkabout]
haertig Offline
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Originally Posted By: dougwalkabout
Actually, there were five. The number dwindled to four for 106 years but thankfully that has been rectified.

Yes! Further research reveals that they indeed made a fifth, anniversary edition fruitcake, to commemorate the original four. It was baked sometime back around 1873 I believe. And that fifth one made it's way up to Canada around the turn of the 20th century, but was inexplicably eaten by some family up there.

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#285495 - 08/17/17 02:49 PM Re: Indestructible Fruitcake! [Re: dougwalkabout]
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Doug ... ok - so in the interest of finding the truth. It should be possible to find out the recipe that was used for British fruit cakes ... 100 years ago. Thats about the time of the First World War. And that is why they were prepared then ... for British soldiers fighting in the trenches in WW1. So the recipe is definitely in old British cookbooks from that era.

Pete


Edited by Pete (08/17/17 02:50 PM)

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#285496 - 08/17/17 03:12 PM Re: Indestructible Fruitcake! [Re: Pete]
M_a_x Offline
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Originally Posted By: Pete
Doug ... It should be possible to find out the recipe that was used for British fruit cakes ... 100 years ago.


Here is a list a of ingredients and a tale about the joy of eating the cake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzdKDXGIues

Probably the soldiers were issued a cheaper version of it.

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