"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "graham" > wrote in message
> news:gZzZe.261260$Hk.212205@pd7tw1no...
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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
>
Must be the pirate in you:-)

Graham