PeterLucas wrote:
> Puester > wrote in
> :

>>
>> That sounds like something my husband would like. (He's one
>> of the few Yanks I know who likes fruitcake.)
>
>
>
> If he likes fruitcake, he'll *love* this one :-)
>
> Is that true? Most Yanks don't like fruitcake?
> I take it you're not a Yank?

I believe it depends on their experience with it. I wasn't
brought up
with it--the Portuguese immigrants had an entirely different
style
of baking--but my husband's mother always made or bought it
until she was in her dottage.

It depends on your definition of Yank. I was born in
Massachusetts,
a first generation Yank, but my heritage is Portuguese.

>
>> Question: What is mixed spice?
>>
>> Any ideas?

>
> Seems they all have different versions.
> And it seems you can't get it in the States for love, nor money.
>
> I can always drop some in the mail :-)

Thanks for the offer, but reading a few of your websites, I
think I
can successfully fake it with a variety of baking spices.

gloria p