[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Fruitcake? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/23/2016 11:35:39 PM EDT
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I know a lot of WTF? ETA- We had a Claxton. |
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90% is crap.
Yet it can be GREAT. THIS is very good online stuff. |
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I love it, people,look,at me funny when I tell them I like it and will take any they get as a joke.
Every year people will give me a few that they were given and I will go out and buy a few for myself. I had some tonight 
I would always pack some with me when I would go winter camping or camping when it would get cold high in the mountains. It is packed full of carbs and depending on what brand or who made it other things that helped give me energy. The good ones weigh a ton it seems like and were a pain to hike with but it helped with long distance hikes and cold weather camping. |
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I know a lot of WTF? ETA- We had a Claxton. And Claxton (GA) smells just like the fruitcake. Benson's in Athens are also good. I have a Collin Street Bakery fruitcake on the kitchen counter right now just calling my name. |
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It depends on who made it, and what is all in it.
I have had way too many that were just gross. Candied fruit, stale nuts and too many of them, and dried up nasty cake. Just waaaay too many people go for the kitchen sink approach, and don't pay attention to balance, so it's too heavy, cloyingly sweet, too many damn nuts, and gross. Some are damn good though. One of the best I have had, comes from a little Bakery just outside of Shipishewanna. I ended up stopping in for a bite, and tried a slice. Got to talking, and ended up supplying them with Blueberries for the last many years. Nice and light, for a fruitcake...not too many nuts, and the cake is well done and moist. I didn't realize it, because their little bakery is always busy but small, but she cranks out a truck load of fruit cakes every year, and just keeps growing. They are retired Dairy Farmers, and just plain old good rural Midwestern folks, and not what one would think of, as culinary cult famous. Next door neighbor Bakery |
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There is only one actual fruitcake in existence. It has to do with multiple dimensions and wormholes, etc. I have seen the very same fruitcake for some odd 40 years now. It appears at family holiday gatherings, a work related party a few years later, etc. I know it is the same one as it has this piece of fruit in the center that looks like one of Marty Feldman's eyeballs. I think that just as it is about to be eaten, it shifts from this dimension to another.
Thank god, I hate that shit. |
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And Claxton (GA) smells just like the fruitcake. Benson's in Athens are also good. I have a Collin Street Bakery fruitcake on the kitchen counter right now just calling my name. I drove through Claxton on my way to Ft. Stewart. Driving along, sniff, sniff, damn, something smells gooodddd! Then see the factory and I'm all, oh! Really like my mom's bourbon fruitcake. Got bourbon in the batter, then after baking gets some poured on top, and then after baking gets wrapped in cheesecloth soaked in even more bourbon. Sometimes if mom gets too "lubricated"  during the process you have to eat it with a spoon. Also not something you want to eat if you're going to be driving. Not going anywhere today so I think I'll have a slice or 3 for breakfast. 
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Yep, Collin Street is good stuff. My wife has a family recipe that is really good too. I made my Great-Grandmother's Christmas pudding a couple of days ago. It wasn't nearly as good as hers. That lady could bake, and did up until shortly before she died at 96. I have some of her recipes, but I can't quite make them taste the same as hers. |
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