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Fruitcake or fruit cake is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom , certain rich versions may be iced and decorated . Fruitcakes are usually served in celebration of weddings and Christmas .
Once one of the most popular cakes around, fruitcake, a dense bread-like cake studded with candied fruits, has become a national joke in the US., many calling it one of the worst holiday gifts.
It has been stated that the first published election cake recipe appeared in 1796 in American Cookery. [35] Plum cake recipes in the fruitcake style appeared in early cookbooks in the Southern United States, and did not actually call for plums. [36] After 1830 plum cake was often referred to as fruit cake or black cake. [13]
It is a light and crumbly cake, and light on fruit and candied peel; only currants, raisins, sultanas and cherries. [4] There is also the Scottish black bun, of a similar recipe using whisky and often caraway seeds, eaten on Hogmanay. [5] Aside from candied cherries, some Christmas cake recipes call for angelica for green colour. [5] [6]
Fruitcake Cookies. Recipe courtesy of Jane Malphrus. 1 lb fruitcake mix. 1/4 lb candied pineapple chopped. 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 cups chopped pecans. 5 ounces dates, chopped
A few years ago, my father arranged to send me a mail-order fruitcake at Christmastime. Made in Texas, it was famous among fruitcake lovers—or, at least, among people who gave fruitcakes to ...
One of the bakery's earliest fundraising partners was Civitan International; since 1951, local Civitans have sold millions of pounds of Claxton fruitcake each holiday season in support of their work with the developmentally disabled. [1] A little over a decade later, in 1964 and 1965, the company was part of the New York World's Fair. Mr.
Country Style Foods Limited is a bakery company that manufactures bread, cakes and baked goods, supplying in-store bakeries of major retailers and food service companies. It has its headquarters in the English city of Leeds, with operating sites in Berwick upon Tweed, Bridlington, Grimsby, Kettering, Newcastle upon Tyne, Stockton on Tees and Worcester.