"Kathy in NZ" > wrote in message
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> Christmas cake
>
> After maki;ng your Christmas fruit cake, months in advance -- you have
> already made it, haven't you? -- using a syringe, inject cake with
> brandy multiple times. Leave a week and inject cake again.
>
> It will keep almost forever.
>
I've been doing that for years since I bought a set of coarse-needled
hypodermics that were being sold by a woodworking company for injecting glue
into loose chair joints.

I sometimes use Cointreau or Grand Marnier instead of plain brandy.
Graham