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Wife & I mixed up our annual fruitcake tonight. It is sitting in the fridge overnight per the instructions in my mother's recipe.
Fruitcake Anyone?
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Butter, brown sugar, pecans, candied cherries & pineapple, lemon flavor, flour, baking powder and eggs.
Only the good stuff. No filler!
Only the good stuff. No filler!
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whats that green schit they put in it?
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They don't look like cherries. They're like candy apple green.
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At the processing center, the cherries are bleached in a solution of calcium chloride and sulfur dioxide until they turn yellow. Next, they're marinated in huge vats of high fructose corn syrup and Red #4. View this video on YouTube. Which isn't the most natural process. 
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Sweet, leaves more for me!
4 sticks of butter
4 cups of pecans
1 pound candied cherries & pineapple
1 pound brown sugar
6 eggs
1 ounce lemon flavor
1 tsp baking powder
What exactly do folks find objectionable in the list above, other than calories?
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Usually the "green" stuff is money but that according to where you stash it.
No usually the green stuff is candied citron....
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We have a GatorChatter Cookbook. Is this a worthy recipe to enter and we have no fruitcake yet.
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Usually the "green" stuff is money but that according to where you stash it.
No usually the green stuff is candied citron....
No shag-nasty citron in my fruitcake recipe.
Citron and other non-desirable ingredients is why most folks don't like fruitcake.
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I will take your opinion of a pound cake vs a fruit cake with a grain of salt.
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Looks good! We make date nut bread for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but only a few days before.
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Short half life... relative to othe radioactive things.
