And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The only fruit cake I ever liked was 60 years ago in Vietnam, one of the other Marines in the squad received a home made one from his mom for Christmas with the candy orange slices on top. He didn’t get it until after New Years Day and by then the orange slices and a couple other things had started getting moldy, we scraped the green off and after eating all the cake we agreed that it the best fruit cake we’d ever tasted. Must have been the mold!
God bless you guys. You appreciated a treat from home. We sent my Marine brother packages on a regular basis. He said it made him very popular. He made it home to tell us.
Off the subject of fruit cake ... but while I was serving as a tank commander on a US Marine flame thrower tank in Vietnam, one of my buddies' moms mailed me a bottle of bourbon ... but she simply took a glass bottle and mailed it in a plain box with no padding. A few days later, two postal inspectors came knocking on her door with a soaking wet (booze dripping) box. She then got another bottle, poured the contents into two plastic baby bottles and mailed them. He and I enjoyed several evenings of liquid courage.
Those packages from home meant a lot, my own mom sent homemade cookies that were as dry as an old bird nest by the time I got them but we all enjoyed them. Semper Fi.
no love for fruitcake, marinated or not. Now Peruvian panetone is another story. Enjoy every slice with butter washed down with homemade hot chocolate. Christmas-New Years a pot of "Abuela's" hot chocolate pretty much awaits company calling.
i will search for that recipe. Thanks. The traditional American wedding cake is a fruit cake but it is hardly made because it is expensive, Out five-tier cake in 1972 was over $400.00 at that time.
The traditional American wedding cake is fruit cake. Ours was over $400.00 in 1922 for a five-tier cake. I will find the recipe for the cake that you show. Thanks.
If your're into that sort of thing (I'm not):
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Continue being a dick, don't let us down.
DeleteOne aunt absolutely loved fruit cake. Not my thing.
ReplyDeleteI cannot stand fruit cake
ReplyDeleteIt's very popular to say that.
DeleteThe only fruit cake I ever liked was 60 years ago in Vietnam, one of the other Marines in the squad received a home made one from his mom for Christmas with the candy orange slices on top. He didn’t get it until after New Years Day and by then the orange slices and a couple other things had started getting moldy, we scraped the green off and after eating all the cake we agreed that it the best fruit cake we’d ever tasted. Must have been the mold!
ReplyDeleteGod bless you guys. You appreciated a treat from home. We sent my Marine brother packages on a regular basis. He said it made him very popular.
DeleteHe made it home to tell us.
Off the subject of fruit cake ... but while I was serving as a tank commander on a US Marine flame thrower tank in Vietnam, one of my buddies' moms mailed me a bottle of bourbon ... but she simply took a glass bottle and mailed it in a plain box with no padding. A few days later, two postal inspectors came knocking on her door with a soaking wet (booze dripping) box. She then got another bottle, poured the contents into two plastic baby bottles and mailed them. He and I enjoyed several evenings of liquid courage.
DeleteThose packages from home meant a lot, my own mom sent homemade cookies that were as dry as an old bird nest by the time I got them but we all enjoyed them. Semper Fi.
DeleteYeah, just soak them in water or C-ration coffee and they were almost as good as right out of the oven!!!
DeleteLeaning towards whipped cream cheese
ReplyDeleteLove me some good fruit bread and that looks first rate stuff.
ReplyDeleteno love for fruitcake, marinated or not.
ReplyDeleteNow Peruvian panetone is another story. Enjoy every slice with butter washed down with homemade hot chocolate. Christmas-New Years a pot of "Abuela's" hot chocolate pretty much awaits company calling.
Claxton fruitcake made for backpacking snacks back when I was hiking. Miss those days.
ReplyDeleteSomeone keeps their bread knife *sharp*!
ReplyDeletewife and kids get me "GRANDMA'S" fruitcake every christmas. good stuff !
ReplyDeleteI am both tempted to make it and horrified at the same time.
ReplyDeleteLooks dry and unappetising.
ReplyDeletei will search for that recipe. Thanks. The traditional American wedding cake is a fruit cake but it is hardly made because it is expensive, Out five-tier cake in 1972 was over $400.00 at that time.
ReplyDeleteThe traditional American wedding cake is fruit cake. Ours was over $400.00 in 1922 for a five-tier cake. I will find the recipe for the cake that you show. Thanks.
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