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The last 20 years or so, I've heard so many fruitcake jokes I can't believe it. I grew up eating it & most people in our town in eastern NC liked it. People gave it as gifts and we all ate it. I know a lot of people must still eat it or Claxton would have gone bankrupt years ago.
How many like me are out there? Do you joke about it in public and eat it in secret? Do you really dislike it? Have you ever tried it?
I've never had a commercially produced fruitcake that I liked...however my mother had a recipe for fruitcake that she made the day after Thanksgiving every year that I love. It wouldn't be the holidays without it!
After she passed away several years back I started to make it myself.
I love fruitcake, but good, homemade ones with lots of dried fruit and nuts; don't like the ones with candied fruit, citron, etc. Yuck. I need to find a good fruitcake recipe ... preferably one that calls for the liberal use of bourbon.
One year I was on a judging panel at the holiday county fair, and one of the contest divisions was "fruitcake." We had to sample some nasty stuff! But some were really good. Wish I still had those recipes.
I am from Jamaica and fruit cake is a must at Christmas but it is moist as we soak the fruits for one year in red wine. And not those artificial fruits that are green and yellow, it is mostly raisins. Then we bake the cakes in early December and soak them with wine or rum every day so they are really potent and super moist by Christmas...yummy!
Watching television last night and heard a fact thing on fruitcake.
A family called the Blakes, (if I am remembering it correctly) passed a fruit cake throughout the family for about two hundred years, (the same one).
I like fruit cake with the real stuff, none of that imitation garbage they try and pass off as fruit.
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But some were really good. Wish I still had those recipes.
