"graham" > wrote in message
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> "Kathy in NZ" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.

I alway use rum