Fruit Cake - The Firearms Forum

carver · 11-13-2012, 09:52 AM

I know that most folks don't care for fruit cake, but I like it, just can't eat it anymore. My mother made one every year, and I never saw anyone turn down a slice, or two. Her secret was Peach Brandy, and how it was applied! Buy a fruit cake, and a pint of Peach Brandy. Put the fruit cake in a good sealed cake holder. Apply the Brandy daily for at least 1 month. Mop it on, don't pour it on. Let it soak in slowly. Keep it covered so nothing evaporates!

Use the whole pint of brandy! When you cut it should be really moist, and really good!

hstout1143 · 11-13-2012, 10:06 AM

I always thought is was disgusting, then I had a piece of Amaretto fruit cake last year and I couldn't get enough of it.

carver · 11-13-2012, 10:08 AM

They are usually very dry, some some good spirits really makes a difference! I have never tried the Amaretto, but I would bet my last dollar that it is wonderful!

jim brady · 11-13-2012, 12:41 PM

Sounds REALLY GOOD, Carver! My Mom used to make it when I was a kid, and I never liked it much. When I was in Nam, I ate the C Ration fruit cake and really liked it. I now make it every year - tastes like the C Rat stuff. I use extra pecans and dried cherries in mine. I think the difference was Mom used the dried dates and the other hard dried fruits. Peach brandy? - gotta try it.

wv hillbilly · 11-20-2012, 06:45 PM

i love fruit cake.
my wife makes me a big one every year

jaydub · 11-20-2012, 06:58 PM

I got a fruit cake for christmas in 1990. I gave it as a gift the next year. Now it's a family tradition, this same cake gets sent to a different family member every year. Some have gotten it 4 or 5 times. Damn thing is 22 years old, luckly, some of us have grandkids to pass it on to. Maybe some prepper would like to have it.

soundguy · 11-20-2012, 07:11 PM

i'm the only one in our family that eats it.

I LOVE it.

great with coffee. love fruitcake cookies too.

like you carver.. I really can't eat it anymore... have to watch my sugar, um.. trigs, cholestrol.. and 4 or 5 other things that make life less fun..

( not suposed to eat it anyway.. though i do usually sneak a piece..

)

ka64 · 11-20-2012, 07:25 PM

My wife loves fruitcake!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Probably why she married me...........

vytoland · 11-20-2012, 08:08 PM

i love to eat a good fruit cake.....those with more nuts and fruit than dough

soundguy · 11-20-2012, 08:10 PM

my wife has a good sense of humor.. I'm guessing that's why she married me..

that or she has bad eyesight..

woolleyworm · 11-20-2012, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soundguy

my wife has a good sense of humor.. I'm guessing that's why she married me..

that or she has bad eyesight..

or both??

back to Carvers OP: I'm a fruitcake lover and not ashamed of it; it's tasty stuff !!

soundguy · 11-20-2012, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woolleyworm

or both??

!!

probably!

Dog Soldier · 11-20-2012, 09:30 PM

It is a known fact only one Fruit Cake was ever made. That Fruit was given away by everyone who ever recieved it. To this day that Fruit Cakes is being given away.

45nut · 12-07-2012, 03:34 PM

I didn't really like fruit cake growing up. I do now and not only that I make a fruit cake for my sister as one of her Christmas presents and my Mom asked me to bake her one too.

Our recipe was my Mammaw's that started out as a prune cake. It has pecans, prunes, raisins, dates, candied cherries, and the usual spices. I'll post the recipe in the next day or so. I love it.

soundguy · 12-07-2012, 03:48 PM

my mom, last year, made some fruit cake cookies.. loved them.. hoping for them again this year too!

GunnyGene · 12-07-2012, 03:55 PM

Good fruit cake is delicious. Bad fruit cake should be forwarded to the National Hockey League.

wv hillbilly · 12-09-2012, 10:40 AM

if you guys get fruit cakes as gifts and you dont like them send them to me

ozo · 12-09-2012, 11:45 AM

I'm not sure if life would be worth living.....
without fruitcakes....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneCa_yIuzg

then again....

aa1911 · 12-09-2012, 12:01 PM

I love the stuff!

you know what they say, you are what you eat!

AL MOUNT · 12-09-2012, 01:27 PM

Many years ago my wife and I started a

"Fruit Cake Rescue Program".

Anyone that got one that didn't like them

we encouraged them to send it to us.

Silencer · 12-13-2012, 08:57 PM

I love fruit cake, but WAY too high in calories. I haven't had it in years.

hstout1143 · 12-13-2012, 09:21 PM

All right, that's it. I've been reading this post for a month and I've seen the fruit cakes in the stores. I've had enough. I can't take it anymore. I'm going out tomorrow and getting one and I'm going to eat the whole thing.

hstout1143 · 12-15-2012, 09:43 PM

I had to do it and it tastes fantastic.

76Highboy · 12-15-2012, 09:48 PM

Fruit cake? Here's what I think of it.

76Highboy · 12-15-2012, 09:55 PM

Now I can see that some of you guys are just plain sick in the head. I have tried it several times in my life and the stuff is just sickening. I'm pretty concerned for you guys.

11-13-2012, 09:52 AM	#1
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,542	Fruit Cake I know that most folks don't care for fruit cake, but I like it, just can't eat it anymore. My mother made one every year, and I never saw anyone turn down a slice, or two. Her secret was Peach Brandy, and how it was applied! Buy a fruit cake, and a pint of Peach Brandy. Put the fruit cake in a good sealed cake holder. Apply the Brandy daily for at least 1 month. Mop it on, don't pour it on. Let it soak in slowly. Keep it covered so nothing evaporates! Use the whole pint of brandy! When you cut it should be really moist, and really good! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. -->

11-13-2012, 10:06 AM	#2
hstout1143 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: California Contributor Posts: 1,814	Re: Fruit Cake I always thought is was disgusting, then I had a piece of Amaretto fruit cake last year and I couldn't get enough of it. __________________ NRA Life Member Kids that hunt and fish don't mug old ladies. "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan "Deo Duce, Ferro Comitante", With God as my leader and my sword as my companion

11-13-2012, 10:08 AM	#3
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,542	Re: Fruit Cake They are usually very dry, some some good spirits really makes a difference! I have never tried the Amaretto, but I would bet my last dollar that it is wonderful! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

11-13-2012, 12:41 PM	#4
jim brady Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1,099	Re: Fruit Cake Sounds REALLY GOOD, Carver! My Mom used to make it when I was a kid, and I never liked it much. When I was in Nam, I ate the C Ration fruit cake and really liked it. I now make it every year - tastes like the C Rat stuff. I use extra pecans and dried cherries in mine. I think the difference was Mom used the dried dates and the other hard dried fruits. Peach brandy? - gotta try it.

11-20-2012, 06:45 PM	#5
wv hillbilly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: mountains of wv. Posts: 2,025	Re: Fruit Cake i love fruit cake. my wife makes me a big one every year

11-20-2012, 06:58 PM	#6
jaydub Former Guest Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 43	Re: Fruit Cake I got a fruit cake for christmas in 1990. I gave it as a gift the next year. Now it's a family tradition, this same cake gets sent to a different family member every year. Some have gotten it 4 or 5 times. Damn thing is 22 years old, luckly, some of us have grandkids to pass it on to. Maybe some prepper would like to have it.

11-20-2012, 07:11 PM	#7
soundguy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: florida Contributor Posts: 4,736	Re: Fruit Cake i'm the only one in our family that eats it. I LOVE it. great with coffee. love fruitcake cookies too. like you carver.. I really can't eat it anymore... have to watch my sugar, um.. trigs, cholestrol.. and 4 or 5 other things that make life less fun.. ( not suposed to eat it anyway.. though i do usually sneak a piece.. ) Last edited by soundguy; 11-20-2012 at 07:13 PM..

11-20-2012, 07:25 PM	#8
ka64 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Michigan Contributor Posts: 1,418	Re: Fruit Cake My wife loves fruitcake!!!!!!!!!!!!! Probably why she married me...........

11-20-2012, 08:10 PM	#10
soundguy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: florida Contributor Posts: 4,736	Re: Fruit Cake my wife has a good sense of humor.. I'm guessing that's why she married me.. that or she has bad eyesight..

11-20-2012, 09:30 PM	#13
Dog Soldier V.I.P. Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Great Desert Posts: 155	Re: Fruit Cake It is a known fact only one Fruit Cake was ever made. That Fruit was given away by everyone who ever recieved it. To this day that Fruit Cakes is being given away.

12-07-2012, 03:34 PM	#14
45nut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,433	Re: Fruit Cake I didn't really like fruit cake growing up. I do now and not only that I make a fruit cake for my sister as one of her Christmas presents and my Mom asked me to bake her one too. Our recipe was my Mammaw's that started out as a prune cake. It has pecans, prunes, raisins, dates, candied cherries, and the usual spices. I'll post the recipe in the next day or so. I love it. __________________ A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. Shane Nemo me impune lacesset We recall the case of the Shoshone war band which showed up complete with one 30-30 rifle per man the week after Pearl Harbor, and simply wanted to have the enemy pointed out to them. "We hear there's a war going on and we want to go fight it." Jeff Cooper *KCCO*

12-07-2012, 03:48 PM	#15
soundguy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: florida Contributor Posts: 4,736	Re: Fruit Cake my mom, last year, made some fruit cake cookies.. loved them.. hoping for them again this year too!

12-07-2012, 03:55 PM	#16
GunnyGene Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,962	Re: Fruit Cake Good fruit cake is delicious. Bad fruit cake should be forwarded to the National Hockey League.

12-09-2012, 10:40 AM	#17
wv hillbilly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: mountains of wv. Posts: 2,025	Re: Fruit Cake if you guys get fruit cakes as gifts and you dont like them send them to me

12-09-2012, 11:45 AM	#18
ozo Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Nashville TN Posts: 2,772	Re: Fruit Cake I'm not sure if life would be worth living..... without fruitcakes.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneCa_yIuzg then again.... __________________ http://www.nranews.com/#/nranews, "ozo. you're off your rocker sir." -johnlives4christ http://www.prisonplanet.com/ -America,Bless GOD-

12-09-2012, 12:01 PM	#19
aa1911 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 3,120	Re: Fruit Cake I love the stuff! you know what they say, you are what you eat! __________________ "Loud noises don't end gunfights.... well placed shots do."

12-09-2012, 01:27 PM	#20
AL MOUNT Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cleaning my Thompson in The Foothills of the Ozark Mountains Posts: 3,130	Re: Fruit Cake Many years ago my wife and I started a "Fruit Cake Rescue Program". Anyone that got one that didn't like them we encouraged them to send it to us. __________________ 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division Vietnam 67-68

12-13-2012, 08:57 PM	#21
Silencer Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Southern California: Inland Empire Posts: 1,330	Re: Fruit Cake I love fruit cake, but WAY too high in calories. I haven't had it in years. __________________ War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. Skeet Shooting Game! Don't Shoot Your Eye Out!

12-13-2012, 09:21 PM	#22
hstout1143 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: California Contributor Posts: 1,814	Re: Fruit Cake All right, that's it. I've been reading this post for a month and I've seen the fruit cakes in the stores. I've had enough. I can't take it anymore. I'm going out tomorrow and getting one and I'm going to eat the whole thing. __________________ NRA Life Member Kids that hunt and fish don't mug old ladies. "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan "Deo Duce, Ferro Comitante", With God as my leader and my sword as my companion Last edited by hstout1143; 12-13-2012 at 10:03 PM..

12-15-2012, 09:43 PM	#23
hstout1143 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: California Contributor Posts: 1,814	Re: Fruit Cake I had to do it and it tastes fantastic. __________________ NRA Life Member Kids that hunt and fish don't mug old ladies. "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan "Deo Duce, Ferro Comitante", With God as my leader and my sword as my companion Last edited by hstout1143; 04-22-2013 at 10:08 PM..

12-15-2012, 09:48 PM	#24
76Highboy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Meridian, Idaho Contributor Posts: 7,094	Re: Fruit Cake Fruit cake? Here's what I think of it.

12-15-2012, 09:55 PM	#25
76Highboy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Meridian, Idaho Contributor Posts: 7,094	Re: Fruit Cake Now I can see that some of you guys are just plain sick in the head. I have tried it several times in my life and the stuff is just sickening. I'm pretty concerned for you guys.