On 2019-12-12 4:13 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 10:39:25 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski
> wrote:

>> Once done, some will go into the mail to a friend that has been
>> enjoying them for 30 years. She cannot imagine Christmas without
>> them. The rest for family and friends here to enjoy.
>
> My auntie came into the office and gave me a fruitcake. She said it
> was my mom's fruitcake recipe. My mom has been gone some 30 years but
> the tradition continues. I suppose that when she's gone, so will the
> tradition.

My mother made both light and dark fruitcake. I love both but there were
nuts in the dark and they are hard on my system. I make a couple
batches of the light each November, eat some and give some away but only
to those who I know like fruitcake.

I am the only one in the family who makes it. My brother phoned a couple
years ago and asked if I was going to make some fruitcake for him. I
said I would do even better than that. I would give him Mom's recipe. He
said that he had the recipe but when he went to get the ingredients he
saw how expensive they were. I guess he figured they were too expensive
for him to make it for himself but not too expensive for me to pay for
them, do the work and give it to him. I set some aside for him, but drew
the line at delivering it to him. He never came by to get it, so we ate it.