Posted on 01/08/2008 7:18:52 PM PST by genefromjersey
I'm (apparently) one of the few people in North America who actually LIKES commercially prepared fruit cake. (Tastes good AND "adds bulk" to diet.)
I found a whole tin on sale today and bought it before sanity could set in.
Very tasty, but way too much for one person !
Is it possible to freeze portions of standard over-the-counter fruit cakes ?
ps: NO. I do NOT want your surplus fruit cakes !!
Feel good about enjoying fruit cake and I join you!
Now, please vote support Mike Huckabee, with me.
(Not to compare!)
Hey, Gene - check this out:
http://askville.amazon.com/freeze-fruit-cake/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=6727607
Compare a real rum ball fresh out of the oven with a simulacrum from a coffee shop, and you get the idea.
fuitcake good
I love fruitcake also. Didn’t get one this year.
we used to freeze ‘em..an aunt used to make em.
should be OK as long as it doesn’t freezer burn
You can freeze it, but I don’t know if you need to. I just fed one to the crows that had been sitting around for a year. Hadn’t molded and appeared to be just fine.
Surplus fruitcakes should be sent to the Navy. I understand they have developed a process that can recycle them into anchors.
They have to be careful though. Too much fruitcake and they can’t get the things off the bottom.
Save the whales!
Don’t throw your fruitcake overboard.
The Assumption Abbey fruitcakes are the best I’ve ever had, bar none.
Check them out here:
http://www.assumptionabbey.org/avaframes.asp
Leftovers can be frozen, and thawed in the fridge later. I like to eat a slice with Philly cream cheese.
Yes....it is possible to freeze fruitcake...it freezes well just make sure to seal it well ...very well.....I’ve thawed it a year later.
I like fruitcake too.
Claxton or Corsicana ?
both yummy
I also like mince pies and plum cake with hard sauce
pass me dat Pepcid pulease?
Fruitcake.
Yeah, I think you can freeze it...
Just plain old “Ann Page”-made in Canada for A&P.
Wrap it in a cloth soaked with brandy or rum and just let it sit in the tin/container. It tastes way better. My mother would do that & just cut a slice when she wanted one.
lol...
btw....soaking them in brandy or cheap cognac or whiskey or rum will let one keep them on a cool dry shelf for months...no kidding
I always liked fruitcake as a kid;but,when I got married,that was the end of it. My wife-and later my kids-hated it,and wouldn’t have it in the house.
Now that I’m alone, I’m ALLOWED to try things I like, dammit ! I’m ALLOWED !!
(Sorry. I just get carried away when in the throes of fruit cake ecstasy...)
Mmmm...If I were to get one of those little bottles of brandy or rum, turn the cake upside down, and drizzle this impromptu hard sauce on the cake,I wonder if the cake would soak it up-or just get mushy ???
I think you owe it to mankind to find out. Well, to us, anyhow. Good booze?
In Terry Pratchett’s universe they have dwarf bread. I think that’s actually fruitcake, but the dwarves eat all the fruit and drink all the booze before they start baking.
Thank all of you for your incredible response !!
I think I’ll try 3 methods: 1. Soak a towel in rum, and wrap that around the cake; 2. Cut some slices single serving size,wrap ‘em up and freeze ‘em.3. Soak the bottom of the cake with rum or brandy.
(Lesssee: Shoak a brandy in rum an’ wrap a towel roun’ my head.Nope. That ain’t it ! )
Make sure the rum is good first. You wouldn’t want to ruin a fruitcake. You can usually tell by the first half bottle.
Julekake
You may not speak Norwegian but the cake's name translates!
Ronin said, ‘Surplus fruitcakes should be sent to the Navy. I understand they have developed a process that can recycle them into anchors.’
= = =
LOL
The Cadets at the Air Force Academy referred to them as “Fruit Weapons.”
I love them too.
This is the BEST FRUITCAKE in the WORLD.
They yooze lotsa booze. . . ... at one time the Beatrice Bakery Company was the largest consumer of distilled spirits in the state of Nebraska. . . .. maybe still are.
The Fruit & Nut Bar Cake is a wonderment of goodness. . . ... you won't even think about freezing any of it.
I love fruitcake too. My dad used to get one from work every year(he worked at Rainbo Bread). They were delicious.
Claxton is the best
Fruitcake was used during Victorian times as wedding cake, and in England still is. The status of the bridal couple was revealed by the age of the fruitcake! The older the better, sometimes *years* old! One story tells of Queen Victoria waiting to enjoy her birthday fruitcake for a full year, because she believed it showed restraint.
That said, if you soak it in booze, it will age beautifully and be a real treat, sometime around next Christmas, if you can wait that long. Randomly add more to it, keep it relatively cool and all should be well.
gene, I scammed down the thread alot speak of keeping it in the ‘tin’ after the rum soak...NO, NO, NO...same (soak up that rum!!!) procedure but use a plastic air tight container (think Rubbermaid or Tupperware). The seams/soder in tbose Christmassy tins can get rusty and nasty over tin...stick to plastic.
Freezing is unnecessary... fruitcake is already mummified.
Too bad the “Fruitcake Lady died. She would have known.
YOU ATE THE FRUITCAKE?!!
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.”
- Johnny Carson
Mince pie - um, haven’t had one of those in decades (showing my age). Have you ever had a muscadine hull pie? Oh, my gosh. Words fail me.
Sure.
I had fruitcake as the top part of our wedding cake. Froze it for a year. It was fine.
Go to youtube and look up 19 year old fruitcake. YT is blocked at work so I can’t get the link for you.
It shows a guy “unwrapping” a fruitcake that he and his brother have been giving each other as Christmas gifts for the last 19 years.
This year, it was wrapped in 120 lbs of concrete.
It’s been a fun little tradition. I’m the one that wrapped it in concrete this year.
Mmm... Fruit cake wrapped in 120 # of concrete ??
It sounds as if a radiation hazard might be present in the core: citro-nucleii and all that...
The fruitcake has been through so much it’ll never be eaten. We take reasonable measures to protect it though. Over the years it’s been “wrapped” in: a steel box welded shut, a custom, multi-level wood puzzle box, a steel box wrapped in Kevlar and dipped in Epoxy, a split log hollowed out and glued back together, a bucket of Great Stuff Foam, A 60lb roll of butyl rubber tape, 5 gallons of plaster etc.
He has access to a full metal and wood shop where he teaches and I work for an adhesive manufacturer and can get all kinds of cool stuff.
Shakespeare said it first:
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, Act III Scene 1:
SCENE I. A field near Frogmore.
Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE
SIR HUGH EVANS
I pray you now, good master Slender's serving-man, and friend Simple by your name, which way have you looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic?
SIMPLE
Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town way.
SIR HUGH EVANS
I most fehemently desire you you will also look that way.
SIMPLE
I will, sir.
Exit
SIR HUGH EVANS
'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog his urinals about his knave's costard when I have good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!
Sings
To shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sings madrigals; There will we make our peds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. To shallow--
Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry.
Sings
Melodious birds sing madrigals-- When as I sat in Pabylon-- And a thousand vagram posies. To shallow & c.
Re-enter SIMPLE
SIMPLE
Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.
SIR HUGH EVANS
He's welcome.
Sings
To shallow rivers, to whose falls- Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?
SIMPLE
No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over the stile, this way.
SIR HUGH EVANS
Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms.
Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER
SHALLOW
How now, master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh. Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful.
SLENDER
[Aside] Ah, sweet Anne Page!
PAGE
'Save you, good Sir Hugh!
I cannot say that I have but I sure eat them each fall....scuppernongs too.
Promise ‘im anything, but give ‘im our page !
Hmmm, sounds like Tom Foley or Barney Frank.
Cheers!
Have you ever tried one of theirs?
Progressh report (Hic !)
Lessee: Get bottle Puerto Rican rum....CHECK
Pour bottle inta container..(Um-thishere fruit jar oughter do)..............CHECK
Put fruitcake into container ??? (No way it’s gonna fit inside that jar....less’n I empty it first)
Empty container......CHECK
Whooo ! Who caresh ‘bout a dang ol’ fruitcake anyhow?
HIC Cheers!
P.S. I like fruitcake also, but there are not as many good ready-made ones as used to be...
All those are favorites of mine, too...:)
Yummy.
They grow on you. Outstanding fruitcake.
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