On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:13:21 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-11-15 10:40 PM, Doris Night wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:15:55 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>
>>> No time to bake tomorrow. I have to get packed and prepare a eulogy,
>>> find old pictures. I have an early morning flight and get back here
>>> around 5 am Monday.
>>
>> Sorry to hear you have a funeral to go to. I'm thinking it was someone
>> close to you, as you are doing the eulogy.
>
>He was my oldest and dearest friend. We go back 57 years. His family was
>my second family. His sister is like a sister to me. We met when we were
>ten, moved to different towns and different directions, but always kept
>in touch and visited each other.
>
>> Anyway, have a nice time on the west coast. I'm guessing you'll be
>> catching up with lots of old friends and relatives.
>
>Not too many to catch up with will be the sister, but there will me one
>friend of his from high school who I knew well from visits. The sister
>has arranged for me to me picked up at the airport and I can stay with
>them and get a ride to the ceremony with them. It is on Saltspring
>Island and if I had had to go by public transportation or rent a car and
>deal with the ferry I doubt I would manage. It will be a quick trip. I
>catch a plane from Hamilton at 7 tomorrow morning and will be back 5 am
>Monday morning. Cripes last minute air fare is expensive.
>
>
>
>
>> When you get back, I'll have to bug you about your light fruitcake
>> recipe. I think if I left out the raisins I'd like it quite a bit. (I
>> hate raisins.)
>
>
>That could work. I omit the nuts and the pitted dates but I add chopped
>pitted prunes.
>
>
>
>Mom’s Fruit Cake
>
>3 cups Seedless white raisins
>2 cups red glazed cherries
>2 cups green glazed cherries
>2 cups candied pineapple
>2 cups pitted dates (optional)
>1 cup coarsely ground pecans (optional)
>5 ½ cups All purpose flour
>½ tsp Baking Soda
>¾ tsp. Salt
>¼ tsp. mace
>2 cups soft butter
>2 cups granulated sugar
>8 eggs
>½ pint sour cream
>2 tsp. Vanilla
>2 tsp. Grated lemon rind
>3 Tbsp. Lemon juice
>
>- Blend butter and sugar and add eggs one at a time. Add sour cream,
>vanilla, lemon juice and granted rind.
>
>- Place the fruits in a large bowl, sift dry ingredients over the fruit
>and stir together. Add liquid mixture to the dry and stir to mix thoroughly.
>
>- Line loaf pans with paper and pour batter into pans to a little more
>than half way. NB. Recipe makes enough for 6-7 loaf pans.
>
>- Bake at 300 degrees for 2 hours.
>
>Allow loaves to cool. Sprinkle a little brandy, rum or sherry over each
>loaf, wrap them individually in aluminium foil and let them sit for at
>least a few days before eating. If not using them within two weeks
>they should be frozen.

Thanks Dave. Safe travels.

Doris