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Eva’s Byte #398 – Much Ado about Fruitcake
Or perhaps, much ado about nut-things…
National Fruitcake Day is December 27, 2022.
Fruitcakes “date” back to ancient times. When in Rome, doing as the Romans do, their heavy cakes were made from barley mash, pine nuts, pomegranate seeds, and raisins. By the Middle Ages, folks packed it all in with honey, spices, and preserved fruits. Leave it to the American colonists to add candied fruits to the mix.
Fruitcake is often drenched in either brandy, bourbon, whiskey, or rum pum pum pum.
Which leads me to hark the herald: a fruitcake is edible for up to 25 years after it’s made! An adolescent during the Cold War of the Sixties when nuclear fallout shelters were hammered-and-sickled into us, fruitcake would have paired nicely with Spam for an underground meal. One of those just desserts!
Fruitcake naysayers tend to grumble about it being overly sweet, dry, and/or hard. From what I’ve garnered, applying more liquor should moisten the cake sufficiently.
If 25 fruitcake varieties really do exist, there’s a strong possibility every one of us can have our fruitcake and eat it too.
In my capacity as a writer, I’m sweetening the plot drafting Chapter 24 (1261 words thus far) along my Contemporary work in progress.
*May each of us indulge in our favorite holiday sweets.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
National Fruitcake Day is December 27, 2022.
Fruitcakes “date” back to ancient times. When in Rome, doing as the Romans do, their heavy cakes were made from barley mash, pine nuts, pomegranate seeds, and raisins. By the Middle Ages, folks packed it all in with honey, spices, and preserved fruits. Leave it to the American colonists to add candied fruits to the mix.
Fruitcake is often drenched in either brandy, bourbon, whiskey, or rum pum pum pum.
Which leads me to hark the herald: a fruitcake is edible for up to 25 years after it’s made! An adolescent during the Cold War of the Sixties when nuclear fallout shelters were hammered-and-sickled into us, fruitcake would have paired nicely with Spam for an underground meal. One of those just desserts!
Fruitcake naysayers tend to grumble about it being overly sweet, dry, and/or hard. From what I’ve garnered, applying more liquor should moisten the cake sufficiently.
If 25 fruitcake varieties really do exist, there’s a strong possibility every one of us can have our fruitcake and eat it too.
In my capacity as a writer, I’m sweetening the plot drafting Chapter 24 (1261 words thus far) along my Contemporary work in progress.
*May each of us indulge in our favorite holiday sweets.
My sincere appreciation to you for reading this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/evapasco
