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Phoenix61

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13. I make it every year before Thanksgiving.

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2022, 02:41 PM

Dec 2022

I use dried apricot, pineapple, and papaya. Plus
Raisins, dates, pecans and walnuts. After baking I let them dry out overnight the wrap in cheese cloth and soak in Capt Morgan’s Spiced Rum until Christmas.

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Fruit cake [View all] doc03 Dec 2022 OP

I've never had fruit cake. Niagara Dec 2022 #1

dense sweet bread. lots of butter Tetrachloride Dec 2022 #5

Your very lucky. jimfields33 Dec 2022 #9

I love good fruitcake. Bad fruitcake can be inedible, but that's true of highplainsdem Dec 2022 #2

Good fruit cake is very good and very rich .... you can not eat too much at one time Botany Dec 2022 #3

Depends on the fruitcake. 2naSalit Dec 2022 #4

Dad was in the cottonseed oil business. Every year he received gifts from vanlassie Dec 2022 #6

Ahh a wasted youth! Haha. MLAA Dec 2022 #8

"Love" might be a little strong, but I do like it on occasion... hlthe2b Dec 2022 #7

I have a recipe for fruitcake cookies without the citron woodsprite Dec 2022 #11

I like the cake part but not KarenS Dec 2022 #10

I make fruitcake as my mother taught me Easterncedar Dec 2022 #12

I make it every year before Thanksgiving. Phoenix61 Dec 2022 #13

My mom started her fruitcakes before Halloween. rsdsharp Dec 2022 #14