I just watched an old Life After People episode, and they specifically mentioned that well-made fruitcake will be good for more than 20 years, even as all other human-made structures crumble around them. That's the kind of Xmas miracle I can get behind.

I haven't made fruitcake in a couple of years, what with my Novembers/Decembers being stressful this year and last. Next year, maybe.

Well, there's your problem. I was raised to believe you needed at least three months for proper soaking. Though to be fair, fresh ones that are made well are also quite tasty, and who's thinking about making christmas cake when it's still warm out.

Canadian wedding cakes are traditionally fruit cake with this cement like frosting that I have honest to god seen someone pull an electric carving knife from the gift table to cut through. For my mom's college roommate, who was Jamaican, the cake was started at least six months ahead so it could get properly soaked in rum every month leading up to the wedding. Which may explain some of the stories I've heard from that wedding.

Timelies all!

Today we will do our weekly supermarket run(though we don't need much, as we're going to Florida on Wed.). We will be wrapping gifts when we get back, as we are meeting friends for dinner tonight. Also, UCONN women's basketball game this afternoon on tv.

Those things are tender of crumb and moist and flavourful.

Yes, they are, and then they try to kill you, at least for some of us.

I hope the lighting went well, msbelle!

I do love fruitcake, and am sad about its bad reputation.

I am not sad about iits bad reputation, it means more for me

Interesting point.

I'm not a big fruitcake eater. And I am always shocked when I think the chocolate cake is a fruitcake.

I have cookies in the oven baking and a quiet house. I should read or take a nap.

My grandmother made a kickass fruitcake, but of course the fruits in question were Hawaiian and the nuts were macadamia nuts.

Bigass fire in town on Friday, it took out the LDS Tabernacle in Provo (not the more famous one in Salt Lake City). It's a pity, because it was one of the few nice old buildings in this town that believes if something is 30 years old it's sorely decrepit and needs torn town, preferably for a parking lot or title loan company.

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So now Provo has this really amazing looking Gothic Revival ruin smack in the middle of downtown, with empty pointed arch windows where the stained glass used to be and four spires on each corner rising above the brick walls that enclose nothing but rubble.