Author Topic: Fruitcake; food or doorstop? (Read 558 times)

811952 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 05, 2005, 07:06:32 AM »

I thought those were rocks?!

Which reminds me: http://cdbaby.com/cd/bowtiebarstow

Read the notes before you listen!

richbass939 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 05, 2005, 04:01:10 PM »

John, Bowtie is, well, ummm, an unbelievable talent. You have to have a lot of confidence to sing like that.
Rich
Edit: Seriously, everyone. You have to check out this Bowtie link. Blue Skies has all his chops rolled into one song.

(Message edited by richbass939 on December 05, 2005)

keavin · « **Reply #17 on:** December 05, 2005, 04:39:21 PM »

I Know it's the holidays,,,,,But aint no fruits in alembics!http://www.liberace.com/gallery.cfm

(Message edited by keavin on December 05, 2005)

flaxattack · « **Reply #18 on:** December 05, 2005, 05:26:59 PM »

there must be 2 cakes circulating on the entire planet
i confess
i ate a harry and david fruit cake

keavin · « **Reply #19 on:** December 05, 2005, 05:41:15 PM »

LOL!!!!...

keavin · « **Reply #20 on:** December 05, 2005, 05:42:12 PM »

LOL!!!!...Alembics are Very Sweet!

jlpicard · « **Reply #21 on:** December 05, 2005, 08:42:32 PM »

My favorite thing to do is use one as a footrest while playing seated!! Actually ,if I am unlucky enough to get two, I use them as a riser to decouple my bass amp from the floor! LOL

jacko · « **Reply #22 on:** December 06, 2005, 01:29:07 AM »

I love a rich fruit cake. (if I ever meet one I'll marry her and she can fund my Alembic addiction). Seriously though, I know it's octobe when I've made the chrismas cake, soaked it in brandy and hidden it away for a couple of months. Reminds me, I need to get it out to 'feed' it.

Graeme

kmh364 · « **Reply #23 on:** December 06, 2005, 10:23:22 AM »

I can't tell the difference between whizzo butter and this dead crab! LOL!

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #24 on:** December 06, 2005, 10:54:23 AM »

The legs are still kicking on the Whizzo Butter.

...ouch

wideload · « **Reply #25 on:** December 06, 2005, 02:11:58 PM »

I am probably the only person in the world who liked fruitcake, specifically cakes from Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, TX. Being diabetic, I can no longer indulge my love for these exquisite confections, but I can drool while looking at pictures!

Larry

kmh364 · « **Reply #26 on:** December 07, 2005, 05:18:39 AM »

No Italians on here? We found the handful of people in the world who actually like petrified rock AKA, fruitcake, yet no Goombas chimed in about panetone?

BTW, don't let my name fool you, I'm 100% Irish in name only. I was raised as an Italian-American by my 100% Italian maternal grandparents. One day, I'll post a pic and you'll all laugh...my face doesn't match my name at all. Actually, just the sight of my face may provoke laughter, irregardless of my surname....hmmmmm, LOL!

Cheers,

Kevin

palembic · « **Reply #27 on:** December 07, 2005, 05:29:51 AM »

Well ...now that I know what it is all about ...I DO like it!
Really!
We have similar recepies here in Belgium!

PTBO

kmh364 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 07, 2005, 05:47:50 AM »

FWIW, what's it called in Belgium? If you really wanna be fancy, I'll take the Flemish and French versions, S'il Vous Plait!

Cheers,

Kevin

palembic · « **Reply #29 on:** December 07, 2005, 06:18:01 AM »

Well I'll be damned ...I dunno!
It is that traditional cake you have to eat at christmas and that you better make some months (a year?

) in advance.
I found a VERY old recepy in a kitchen-notebook from a grand-grand-aunt! I just read it but didn't copy it.

When I was about 7 years old we went to my grandparents and there they served it.
I still remember that the cake was garnished with lumps of sugar soaked in 80? Stroh Rhum.Then the lumps were set on fire and the lights dimmed. I remember we the kids looking with astonishment at the face of our grandmother coming into the dining room lit by the blue-ish light of the low burning sugarlumps and the alcohol!
HEAVY to eat ...but SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!

Paul TBO