Gruitcake (was) RE: [at-l] food

[greyowl at rcn.com (greyowl@xxxxxxx)]

My wife makes a great fruitcake.  The fruit is soaked in rum 
before mixing in the batter.  After baking and allowing the 
fruit cake to cool a 1/2 cup of brandy is poured on each loaf 
and the loaf is sealed in platics (airtight) for three 
monthw.  The cake is unsealed each month for some additional 
seasoning.  After three months the cake is too thin to eat 
with a fork and too thick for a soda straw.  When we serve it 
to friends they need a dsignated driver.  With all the 
alcohol no nasty little beasties could survive.  And there 
are plenty of calories.

Grey Owl


---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:50:14 -0400
>From: "Jim Bullard" <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>  
>Subject: Re: Gruitcake (was) RE: [at-l] food  
>To: "AT-L List (E-mail)" <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>
>   Well I couldn't find any "Gruitcake" but Google says
>   the address for Benson's Bakery (fruitcake and
>   sourdough bread) is Elder St., Bogart, GA 30622. I
>   don't know if that is the one you are referring to.
>   There was a link to their website but all I got was
>   a message that I wasn't authorized to access the
>   site (???).
>    
>   I think it was Ed Garvey who swore by Claxton
>   Fruitcake as trail food. I remember selling Claxton
>   Fruitcake as a fundraiser for our church when I was
>   a teenager but I never ate the stuff.  Come to think
>   of it they were just about the size and shape of a
>   brick. They probably would have made good doorstops.
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: William Neal
>     To: 'Rlphjoh@aol.com' ; AT-L List (E-mail)
>     Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:18 AM
>     Subject: Gruitcake (was) RE: [at-l] food
>     Try Benson's fruitcake.  You'll have to do a
>     web-search for them.  At one time they were mostly
>     fruitcakes-for-fund-raising.  And they made and
>     sold some individual slices (I understand they
>     don't do indy slices anymore).  But the cake was
>     delicious.  More like a fruit and nut candy bar
>     with a cake binder that was delicious.  Most
>     fruitcakes are not even worthy of doorstop status,
>     but this one is so delicious that if I find it --
>     it is now sold in stores -- before Christmas, I
>     never have any on Christmas day.  This would be a
>     great cake to take on the trail.
>      
>     William, The Turtle
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Rlphjoh@aol.com [mailto:Rlphjoh@aol.com]
>       Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:59 AM
>       To: shane@theplacewithnoname.com
>       Cc: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>       Subject: Re: [at-l] food
>
>       Hmmmmmmm  we always used fruitcake received at
>       Christmas time for door stops. Do people really
>       eat those things???  I know Ernest T Bass used
>       them to throw through window panes   LOL......
>
>       Im kidding....... yours and everyone elses
>       replys on food have been quite helpful. Thank
>       you all !!!   Hmmmm  I am gonna have to come up
>       with a trail name.  This I must ponder
>       on........
>
>       <<<Oh, and fruitcake.  You can hike for weeks on
>       nothing but fruitcake...>>>
>
>       Shane
>
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