Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 09, 2022

Yuk!

when it’s fresh, not rock solid, right?

And if it came from the Collin Street Bakery.

My father loved fruit cake at Christmas, and he lived to age 97. I settle for a little Panettoni nowadays.

I like fruit cake!

What’s wrong with fruit cake ???

Plugger status: confirmed, I guess?

I loved it! (Before Diabetes)

fruitcakes are great, slightly warmed up

A small piece slightly warmed up with Whipped cream ;-)

I have two heritage recipes for Scottish fruit cake same fruit mix but one cake is light [no booze in the batter] and the other dark [heavy on the rum] and another for one that uses candies cherries, maraschino cherries and sultanas that isn’t counted as a fruit cake for some reason. My favorite though is Granny Crawford’s plum pudding. As anyone with UK heritage knows, a ‘pudding’ is a special desert, not what most in the USA think of as ‘pudding’. Granny’s included figs, plums [prunes rehydrated with sherry], dates, and golden and dark raisins in the dark fruitcake batter. a slice of that, served with a dollop of eggnog custard on the side, was the perfect finish to a holiday meal.

I really like good fruit cake.

I found fruit cake can be quite good, just not in excess, or else the guts can go nuclear!

My mother made a fruit cake for my grandmother one year. Mom soaked the cake in rum and bourbon. Neither we drinkers, but they sure were some happy old ladies after eating some of that cake.

There is good fruit cake and there is fruit cake made with sawdust.

My wife makes an icebox fruitcake that’s wonderful.

The Italian Panforte is the best! Made months before Christmas, using dried peaches, pears, cherries, etc. and soaked regularly in the dark liquor of choice. OMG! My mouth waters just thinking about it.

Old, dried out Fruit Cakes from the past have given it a bad name. When it is fresh and warmed it is good plain, ala-mode, or even with a dairy whipped topping. Prune Whip on the other hand, not so much.

I would help mom make 8-10 fruit cakes every year around October. She would then place them in a Tupperware container in the back room. About every other week she would open them up and pour in a cup or so of rum into each one. By Christmas time she would give those away. The were loved by all. (even me)

It’s been decades since I’ve even seen a fruitcake.

To be properly and fully enjoyed, fruitcake has to be paired with a generous serving of eggnog. (And neither the fruitcake nor the eggnog needs any alcohol, thank you very much!)

Not this Plugger!

Not this one, lets regift it.

I love homemade fruit cake.

I like REAL fruitcake… rich with lots of dried fruit and nuts, soaked for several months in good bourbon wrapped in cheesecloth in a nice tin. The store-bought versions are usually dry and lacking in sufficient fruit and nut – not ever a trace of real bourbon – full of additives, too.

Nope

One of the highlights from my Army days was being in the field, more often than not in inclement weather, and finding a small Olive Drab-colored tin can of G.I. -ration fruitcake in my box of packaged field rations. I savored every little nibble and scraped the inside of the can clean to waste nothing.

Ooh yea, made some last year. Since I do not imbibe, I soaked it in OJ. Delicious.

And why wouldn’t me? It is tasty and delicious!

My mom (89) loved fruit cake, but we try to make sure to get her good stuff. There is a good holiday gift catalog we used to order from (can’t get the name to come up) that once had an assortment of small different flavored fruit cakes. We sent it to my mom and she loved it! She said they were all very moist and packed with different assortments of fruits and nuts. Some with alcohol and some without.

Some of the best fruitcakes come from Mary of Puddin Hill. I grew up not far from the original store.

https://www.puddinhill.com

You need to have at least tried good fresh fruitcake at least once.

Alternately, your regional research university needs you. Perhaps everyone could donate the re gifted ‘blocks’ to build a bio habitat… or an eco pot hole filler.

Order a fruitcake from Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana Texas and you will find your love of fruitcake. Worth every penny. They are the best.

Sorry. No.

whats wrong with a brick that gets handed around every year?

NO we don’t

i knew in my heart that i wasn’t a plugger, but this is the clincher…

I have had Fruit Cake that I liked, and I’ve some I didn’t.

I will not eat it, fresh or old

I’ll leave it out until there’s mold.

It’s not real food that should be et.

I would not eat it on a bet!

(With apologies to Dr. Seuss).

And we LIKE it, ya whippersnappers!

yeah what is wrong with fruit cake?