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OT Great fruitcake!
Yeah, yeah, I know the smarty pants out there will say there's no such
thing. Good. Keep thinking that -- there will be more left for me. This year I decided to try Alton Brown's fruitcake recipe. ( http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci...6_8157,00.html ) I made a couple of very minor changes (made it wheatfree and eggless, macerated the fruit in brandy instead of rum), and it turned out FABULOUS! More cake-like (and less bread-like) than previous fruitcakes, but simply superb flavor. DH is busy scarfing it down. You'd think I'd been starving the poor boy, and he's not usually a big cake or fruit eater. His only suggestion was to add more nuts next time, and he's hinting that next time needs to be very, very soon. -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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OT Great fruitcake!
IIRC, the recipe called for rum for macerating, and brandy to spritz. Not
being a drinker, I only wanted to buy one alcohol, so I used just brandy. -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply "Jan" wrote in message . 125.201... Not to be picky.. you used rum or brandy?? recipe calls for brandy... so I'm betting you used rum??? what the heck... I'll buy both lol... Jan "Kathy Applebaum" wrote in . net: Yeah, yeah, I know the smarty pants out there will say there's no such thing. Good. Keep thinking that -- there will be more left for me. This year I decided to try Alton Brown's fruitcake recipe. ( http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci...D_9936_8157,00 .html ) I made a couple of very minor changes (made it wheatfree and eggless, macerated the fruit in brandy instead of rum), and it turned out FABULOUS! More cake-like (and less bread-like) than previous fruitcakes, but simply superb flavor. DH is busy scarfing it down. You'd think I'd been starving the poor boy, and he's not usually a big cake or fruit eater. His only suggestion was to add more nuts next time, and he's hinting that next time needs to be very, very soon. |
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OT Great fruitcake!
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"Kathy Applebaum" wrote: Yeah, yeah, I know the smarty pants out there will say there's no such thing. Good. Keep thinking that -- there will be more left for me. This year I decided to try Alton Brown's fruitcake recipe. ( http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci...6_8157,00.html ) I made a couple of very minor changes (made it wheatfree and eggless, macerated the fruit in brandy instead of rum), and it turned out FABULOUS! More cake-like (and less bread-like) than previous fruitcakes, but simply superb flavor. DH is busy scarfing it down. You'd think I'd been starving the poor boy, and he's not usually a big cake or fruit eater. His only suggestion was to add more nuts next time, and he's hinting that next time needs to be very, very soon. I'm pretty picky about my fruitcake and have been making the same recipe for years. I may have to give this one a try, though -- sounds good! -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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OT Great fruitcake!
"Jan" wrote in message . 125.201... Thank you so much for posting this!! After further thought..... I think I'm going to take the dried fruit soaked idea and sub that out in my grandmother's recipe in place of the candied fruit and see what happens.... thank you!! I miss fruit cake so very very much!!!! Glad to be of help! *hic* -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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OT Great fruitcake!
Jessamy wrote:
I always thought the brandy was *for* the cook - the things I learn here! That too... After all, you need to taste it - you wouldn't want to cook with summat nasty, after all! -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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OT Great fruitcake!
I always thought the brandy was *for* the cook - the things I learn here!
-- Jessamy In The Netherlands Take out: so much quilting to reply. Time to accept, time to grow, time to take things slow www.geocities.com/jess_ayad http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jes...pson/my_photos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yum!!! That type of fruit cake looks much much better!! The fruit isn't candied!! We could do that one!!! Yum yum yum..... grocery store here I come..... can I buy extra brandy for the cook??? vbg Jan |
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OT Great fruitcake!
only the *good* stuff enters this house I have yet to find a good cheap
supermarket brandy ;-) -- Jessamy In The Netherlands Take out: so much quilting to reply. Time to accept, time to grow, time to take things slow www.geocities.com/jess_ayad http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jes...pson/my_photos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Kate Dicey" schreef in bericht ... Jessamy wrote: I always thought the brandy was *for* the cook - the things I learn here! That too... After all, you need to taste it - you wouldn't want to cook with summat nasty, after all! -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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OT Great fruitcake!
Howdy!
http://www.collinstreet.com/ Ragmop/Sandy (hey, she said "Great fruitcake!" and this is "Kathy Applebaum" wrote in message . net... Yeah, yeah, I know the smarty pants out there will say there's no such thing. Good. Keep thinking that -- there will be more left for me. This year I decided to try Alton Brown's fruitcake recipe. ( http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci...6_8157,00.html ) I made a couple of very minor changes (made it wheatfree and eggless, macerated the fruit in brandy instead of rum), and it turned out FABULOUS! More cake-like (and less bread-like) than previous fruitcakes, but simply superb flavor. DH is busy scarfing it down. You'd think I'd been starving the poor boy, and he's not usually a big cake or fruit eater. His only suggestion was to add more nuts next time, and he's hinting that next time needs to be very, very soon. -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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OT Great fruitcake!
Kathy Applebaum wrote:
Yeah, yeah, I know the smarty pants out there will say there's no such thing. Good. Keep thinking that -- there will be more left for me. This year I decided to try Alton Brown's fruitcake recipe. ( http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci...6_8157,00.html ) I made a couple of very minor changes (made it wheatfree and eggless, macerated the fruit in brandy instead of rum), and it turned out FABULOUS! More cake-like (and less bread-like) than previous fruitcakes, but simply superb flavor. I adore Alton Brown. I think my own fruitcake is pretty good. I use an old raised-by-beaten-eggwhite-only dark batter, real butter, and add every kind of dried fruit and nut I can find (cranberry, cherry, peach, apricot, plum, apple, dark and golden raisins, pears, blueberries, almonds, pecans, etc.) I soak some of the goodies in run and some in whisky. I use lots of spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander, clove, ginger, orange peel, etc.) and some almond flavor. NO candied fruit!!! Takes all day, makes a huge mess, but each bite is different and yummy. Monique in TX. |
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OT Great fruitcake!
Sandy, what recipe do you use? I'd love to have one that somebody who's
"pretty picky about [her] fruitcake and [has] been making the same recipe for years]... --Heidi Plattsburgh (UPstate) NY http://community.webshots.com/user/rabbit2b === Sandy Foster wrote: I'm pretty picky about my fruitcake and have been making the same recipe for years. I may have to give this one a try, though -- sounds good! |
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