"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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>> It always makes me smile when I read here that people have started making
>> fruitcakes. Many years ago I was making mine, and an American said to
>> me,
>> 'Do you all make these and give them to each other?' )
>
> That is funny. Most Americans' experience with fruitcake is this (or
> something similar):
>
> <http://www.amazon.com/Fruit-Cake-Boxed-Claxton-Fruitcake/dp/B000YGMK1W/ref=pd_bxgy_325_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=152DFBXMGF7VK BRBWZ6K>
>
> Those crummy things are often purchased as gifts for people one doesn't
> know very well, or as hostess gifts when visiting at the holidays.

Oh dear. I guess that devalues them and now I understand his comment.

> I favor light fruitcake made with dried rather than candied fruit. I
> haven't made any in more than a decade. Since fruitcake is such a
> joke around here, I have a hard time getting people to take them,
> even though they're quite tasty.

But why do posters here make ones to give away if no one really appreciates
them? I (and friends that I know about) make them for themselves and their
family

I don't make them any more because we don't eat them now, but I used to make
Christmas cakes and Christmas puddings every three years. Full of alcohol
they store really well and are much better for it Always better the second
and third year <g>


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