Are 87 percent of we forumites wrong ?

Esav Benyamin said:
Too good to wait till the holidays! I grew up on pickles, pickled herring, pickled tomatoes ... and crusty old rye bread!
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Pickled herring, now we're talking... we normally have mustard herring, garlic herring, onion herring, dill herring ... :D
 
I love GOOD home made fruit cake. The store bought "fruitcake-like-objects" just aren't the same.

Even like pickled herring, although creamed salt herring is better.

But Mincemeat pies are my favorite! My mother use to make a couple of dozen micemeat pies (as well as hundreds of mincemeat filled cookies).

She'd start the day before an make the mince meat...real meat in them...generally venision....lots of candied fruit, and chopped apples...and of course whiskey!

Question for those who like mincemeat pies...meat or no meat?

Pam
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Too good to wait till the holidays! I grew up on pickles, pickled herring, pickled tomatoes ... and crusty old rye bread!
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Boy,that sounds good to me! Who wants my fruitcake?:cool:
 
Mincemeat Rules

For some reason, I was the only person in my family who like mincemeat. My g'mother made one for Xmas one year (while there were doubles of apple, sweet potato and others that year). It took me about four hours to eat the whole thing (hey, I was 12). I'm older now and eat a bit slower. (My last minemeat pie took about two days to finish;) .

Fruitcake makes an excellent door stop.
 
Defintely if you have a fruitcake that's too dry you should take some cheesecloth, soak it in whiskey, bourbon, rum, whatever and wrap the fruitcake in it. It'll moisten and flavor it. I make homemade fruitcakes every year and have people begging for them. I soak the fruit in bourbon (Maker's Mark) for 3 days before using it in the cake. I also use regular dried fruit not that crazy candied gunk that commerical people use. It has cherries, cranberries, pineapple, apricots, 3 types of raisins and currants. It's heavy but more like poundcake heavy not the dark stuff they us in regular fruitcake.

Made a Bacardi Rum Cake recently. Really loaded it up with rum. Everyone in the house had a piece and then my dog ate the whole rest of the cake, almost a half because it was on the counter. She wobbled around for about a half hour and slept hard the rest of the night. I'm almost sure she had a hangover the next day. It was cute but I was up all night worried about her.
 
Just made my Christmas cake yesterday. A nice big dark fruitcake with just enough cake to stick the 2 1/2 lbs of fruit together.

Cant wait to eat it, I'm just waiting for it to cool down so I can ice it. Nothing beats a nice bit of fruit cake.

I have already eaten a couple of dozen mince pies this season...
 
The problem isn't that fruitcake is good or bad, the problem is that the 13% keep giving fruicakes as gifts to the 87%. Please stop!

-Bob
 
Love a good fruitcake when I can find it. The grocery store near here makes passable ones, going to see if I can't find a better one around here and freeze a few for snacking.

One of the more interesting family traditions for us is my aunt's xmas pudding... her personal touch? bacardi gold, with a 1/4 cup measuring cup.
one for the pudding, one for me, one for the pudding, one for me... to hell with the measuring cup... *start pouring into bowl till about 1/2 bottle*... hell with the pudding, rest for me! and usually about the same time the pudding was ready, she was done the bottle. Every year, same thing.
 
ako Knife Lady said:
I love GOOD home made fruit cake. The store bought "fruitcake-like-objects" just aren't the same.

Even like pickled herring, although creamed salt herring is better.

But Mincemeat pies are my favorite! My mother use to make a couple of dozen micemeat pies (as well as hundreds of mincemeat filled cookies).

She'd start the day before an make the mince meat...real meat in them...generally venision....lots of candied fruit, and chopped apples...and of course whiskey!

Question for those who like mincemeat pies...meat or no meat?

Pam
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Had to resort to buying Borden's mincemeat today. It has a small amount of beef. I like marmalade & theirs has lots of apples & various fruit rind . I'm salivating as I write......

Still have not located a Claxon bar fruitcake but I will keep trying. Sadly,my family's old bakers have passed away.


Uncle [ undaunted ] Alan:D :thumbup:
 
Among many other failings, I have a mania for fruitcake. I not only buy two or three a week during the holiday season (when they're widely available), but I also go to all the Walgreens and Wal-Marts and Targets and grocery stores I can find after January first to pick 'em up on clearance for pennies on the dollar; that supply usually lasts until about March, then I have a long fruitcake-less twilight until November. :(

PS - Here in the Denver area, the best fruitcake prices are at Super-Wal-Mart (two for $5).
 
I've really enjoyed real mincemeat pie on the several occasions I've had it. I don't like the overly sweet, meatless commercial versions that seem to be almost entirely filled with raisins.

I've only had commercial fruitcake and have never liked it. I don't doubt that homemade can be much better.

(P.S. Pickled herring is always good.:D)
 
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