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Originally posted by mek

Try this fruitcake from monks in Berryville, Va. Check out the ingredients.
http://www.monasteryfruitcake.org

I’ve been — and live close to — there. Great fruitcake! [:)]

Try this fruitcake from monks in Berryville, Va. Check out the ingredients.
http://www.monasteryfruitcake.org

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Originally posted by lleechef

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Originally posted by clothier

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Originally posted by lleechef

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Originally posted by EdSails

I’m going to a Christmas party Saturday night that features a "white elephant" gift trade. I’ve decided I’ll take a nicely packaged fruitcake. Should be hours of fun watching for the reaction of the gift receivers![:D]

Take a Chia Pet! I did that one year and we had more laughs with that damned thing. Oh, and the guy who finally ended up with it was BALD! [}:)][}:)][:D][:D]

Have you ever recieved anything useful at a white elephant?

Oh yeah, all the time! Bear claw slippers, outdated cookbooks, mixed nuts, a stash of new Brazilians………sure……..all the time!

My friend has a week-after-Xmas party where you bring the gifts you don’t want and everyone trades. I got a pound of See’s candy and the Clapper, which I had been dying to try! I left happier than after my own Xmas! But I had to unplug it, because every time I laughed hard, the lights would go out, which only made me laugh harder, leaving the lights flashing on and off and everyone in hysterics.

I’m disappointed.

From the topic heading, I thought that this was going to be a discussion about those strange folks who inhabit our "left coast". Guess not though, eh?

Wally

The Bourbon fruitcake from Gethsemani Farms, a Trappist Abbey near Bardstown, KY, is the one you want.

http://www.gethsemanifarms.org/fruitcakes.html

They also have Bourbon fucge and UNBELIEVABLE trappist cheeses…..

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Originally posted by clothier

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Originally posted by lleechef

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Originally posted by EdSails

I’m going to a Christmas party Saturday night that features a "white elephant" gift trade. I’ve decided I’ll take a nicely packaged fruitcake. Should be hours of fun watching for the reaction of the gift receivers![:D]

Take a Chia Pet! I did that one year and we had more laughs with that damned thing. Oh, and the guy who finally ended up with it was BALD! [}:)][}:)][:D][:D]

Have you ever recieved anything useful at a white elephant?

Oh yeah, all the time! Bear claw slippers, outdated cookbooks, mixed nuts, a stash of new Brazilians………sure……..all the time!

There’s a good article in today’s edition of The Washington Post’s "Food" section (including a recipe) regarding making "Fruitcake Bread Pudding" from leftover fruitcake this holiday season.

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48806-2003Dec9.html

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Originally posted by kdiammond

While I like fruitcake — my holiday fruitcake is a modified carrot bundt. A butter batter with a lot of carrot shreds, rum soaked golden raisins, crushed pinapple, and a bunch of pecans. Fruitcake haters love it and carrot cake lovers go nuts (literally). I do not ice it but sometimes let it age a bit with some orange liquer.

Oh, yeah, like you’re gonna get away with not giving us that recipe??? Come on…

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Originally posted by EdSails

I’m going to a Christmas party Saturday night that features a "white elephant" gift trade. I’ve decided I’ll take a nicely packaged fruitcake. Should be hours of fun watching for the reaction of the gift receivers![:D]

Take a Chia Pet! I did that one year and we had more laughs with that damned thing. Oh, and the guy who finally ended up with it was BALD! [}:)][}:)][:D][:D]

I’m going to a Christmas party Saturday night that features a "white elephant" gift trade. I’ve decided I’ll take a nicely packaged fruitcake. Should be hours of fun watching for the reaction of the gift receivers![:D]

While I like fruitcake — my holiday fruitcake is a modified carrot bundt. A butter batter with a lot of carrot shreds, rum soaked golden raisins, crushed pinapple, and a bunch of pecans. Fruitcake haters love it and carrot cake lovers go nuts (literally). I do not ice it but sometimes let it age a bit with some orange liquer.

Hubby’s mom used to make an ice box fruitcake. We tried it this year, and it’s really good. No candied fruit in it…just some dates, nuts, raisins, marshmallows and marischino cherries. Good stuff.

Busterjohn,

Sorry about the black cake infringement there. I don’t have the cook it originated from. The recipe was passed on to me as such and we made it and loved it. Do you have the "Home Cooking" cookbook? Is it available retail now or does it have to be scouted out on a used basis? Have you made the Black Cake also? I think it is awesome?

I think Ort makes fruitcake and everything else out of livermush, wind and slaw…….[:D][xx(][:D] But we still love ya, Ort!