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Fruit Cake Is Best With Fresh Ingredients
By Ginger O’Riley
Fruit cake can be a delicious cake depending on the ingredients.
If the cake includes fresh fruit with a little flavour by adding
brandy, coffee or cream, then you have a delicious fruit cake.
The secret to your success is fresh fruit. I pick my own fruit
from my miniature fruit trees. I know if I pick my own fruit,
they are fresh. If I buy fruit from the food store, I do not know
how many days, weeks or months they have been in refrigerated
storage, in transit to the store. Losing a lot of their natural
flavours in the meantime.
Fresh Fruit Off The Branch
I did not realise how good fruit tasted until I planted my own
miniature fruit trees in the backyard and started eating fresh
fruit, off the branch. I suddenly realised there was a natural
taste and a delicious flavour when the fruit are fresh, off the
branch.
This is why I now use fresh fruit in my fruit cakes.
When I was growing up, fruitcakes were not always cooked with
fresh ingredients and they created fear and stress when I had
to eat a piece of fruitcake. If I could remember anything from
my childhood, it was having to eat fruitcake.
Fear And Stress From Grandma’s Fruitcake
When I was growing up, there was nothing more stressful or feared
during the holidays than grandma’s fruitcake. I know that my experience
is not unique. Fruitcakes are feared all over the country.
The everlasting fruit cake is the bane of any holiday season.
Fruit and flower baskets, Christmas ornaments, cheesy family cards,
eggnog – all of these meet appreciation wherever they are given.
Those tough, indestructible fruit cakes alone ruin the holiday
season!
I have always been a fan of cooking – especially baking. I love
to bake cakes and cookies, and I can’t figure out why in the world
such a disgusting cake would become such an entrenched tradition.
A Good Tasting Fruit Cake
In my whole life, I have only met a handful of people who like
fruitcakes – and many of them are fruitcakes themselves.
I set out to discover if there were such a thing as a good tasting
fruit cake.
Were they always these indestructible things that you could send
in the mail, leave sitting for weeks, or even stack papers on
top of without damaging in the slightest? Were they ever, in other
words, intended to eat?
Many Different Recipes
I haven’t been able to find out where the much-maligned fruit
cake originates, but I have discovered that there are many different
recipes.
Most of the time, people are familiar with the bland, generic
one. These cakes are dense, dry, and easy to preserve. In this
day and age where we can have fresh food whenever we want, we
are a little bit spoiled.
A Durable Holiday Fruit Cake
Few of us see the usefulness of having such a durable holiday
fruit cake, but my guess is that, in earlier times, they were
pretty handy.
In the winter when everything was dead and the ground was cold,
having something sweet and doughy that you could review your options
and snack on all year would be a rare luxury. So much for the
uselessness of the fruit cake!
Add A Little Brandy
I have also discovered that there are some cake and fruit recipes
that are actually quite good. If you add a little bit of brandy,
for example, you can turn a bland fruit cake it is something delicious.
You can also add coffee, cream, or many other additions. Using
fresh fruit, although not strictly traditional, will also make
it lighter and tastier for people.
A Little Creativity
In short, there is no reason why you can’t make a fruit
cakes that tastes good while still deserving that name. All it
takes is a little bit of creativity.
I have decided to use some of fresh fruit from my miniature fruit
trees and make my own version of a delicious fruit cake. I have
included a little cognac for taste and flavour and voila! Everyone
loves it.
Fruitcake For Dinner Party Dessert
I made two fruit cakes for a dinner party I was hosting a couples
of nights ago. I served the cake as a dessert and it was finished
as quickly as I served it. People wanted more fruit cake. They
all came up with the Marie Antoinette quote about letting the
poor eat cake.
A number of people even asked for my secret recipe with my secret
ingredients. I only gave my recipe to those who promised that
they will not pass my fruitcake recipe to others without my written
permission in triplicate. That got a laugh.
I felt proud that everyone enjoyed my cooking and they wanted
more of my delicious fruit cake.
About the Author:
Ginger O’Riley has written a number of humorous articles
on cakes, food and cooking including
Chicken Recipes,
Bread Making,
Potato Salad,
Low Carb Cooking,
Home Cooking,
Slow Cooker Recipes,
Breakfast Recipes,
Muffin Recipes.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Did You Know?
Is dark chocolate better for you than white chocolate?
When comparing dark and white chocolate you
are actually referring to an absence of an important ingredient.
Dark chocolates have the cocoa liquor added to the mixture. White
chocolates do not have this ingredient.
The white chocolates only have the cocoa
butter. Both still have sugar and vanilla but that is where the
similarities end. Many chocolatiers have petitioned to have white
chocolates labeled as something else because they do not have
the liquor that makes them chocolates. In terms of health related
benefits the dark chocolates definitely have a winning edge.
The darker the chocolates are, the more
antioxidants they contain that can combat free radicals. You also
may not know that research into the effects of flavonoids that
are found in dark chocolates have lead researchers to believe
that chocolates can be more effective than codeine when it comes
to coughs.
Chocolates have also been used as aphrodisiacs.
There is not a lot of concrete evidence that they work but they
do produce serotonin which can give you a "feel good" sensation.
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