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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't like fruitcake, but I ADORE a christmas pudding (aka plum pudding).  
My kids give it the side eye, but I will eat the whole damn thing myself.[/quote]

Is that the kind of cake you keep in a cupboard and feed with alcohol?[/quote]

I keep it in the fridge but I guess my great-great-grandmother probably kept it in a cupboard.  I don't feed it with alcohol, and I actually don't like it when it's utterly soaked in booze.  I soak tea towels in brandy and wrap it in the tea towels, which preserves it until the holiday.  There is a also a small amount of brandy in the cake itself.  And then you pour some more brandy over it before lighting it on fire.  But the booze should really be an accent and not an overwhelming flavor.  [/quote]

This is exactly how fruitcake used to be made, too. It wasn't ready until it had been wrapped in booze-soaked cheesecloth for weeks. I'm sure that was how they preserved them in "the olden days."[/quote]

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