106 Year Old Fruitcake

[ikesdad]

Would you be brave enough to try a piece?.

With a goat ?
In a boat ?

In a house ?
With a mouse ?

 

[lelliott19]

With a goat ?
In a boat ?

I do not like 106 year old fruit cakes.
I do not like it even if @mofederal bakes.
I do not like it in a boat.
I do not like it with a goat.
Or in a box
or with a fox.
I do not like it here or there.
I do not like it anywhere.

 

[ikesdad]

Sam you am

 

[unionblue]

Civil War hardtack has been dug at recent civil war digs, blackened by fire, but still intact as the day it was issued. Civil War hardtack was issued (I've heard) during the Spanish-American War to U.S. Troops in Cuba.

If it ain't broke (and can't be broken) don't fix it, issue it. -- Greek Supply Sergeant at the gates of Troy.

 

[Deleted User CS]

I discovered the world's oldest plum pudding while watching the Christmas episode of the British Baking Show Masterclass - http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-15537655 This one is a 117 years old this year, the article I found is from 2011.

Seems British baked goods hold up to the test time of time

Anna Elizabeth. I just love that British baking show. Its the best. David.

 

[FarawayFriend]

I knew it! I just KNEW IT! I've long had a theory that there are only about a dozen fruitcakes on the planet, and that people just keep re-gifting them year after year after year. No one actually eats them. Now a thirteenth has been found. If any of you receive a fruitcake as a gift this Christmas season, compare it with the photos above to see if you received THIS ONE!

Probably you are right about a limited number of fruitcakes, taking turns of being presented at Christmas. While looking for the Scott one, I found another one that is "only" 76 years old, but has "traveled thousands of miles"...
"The cake came with a note dated May 20, 1971, that read: 'This fruitcake is one of six purchased by the undersigned during Christmas Week of 1941.
'During its 30 years of life the cake has traveled thousands of miles and has been subjected to all types of climatic conditions and shocks. We are moving again and wish to return the cake to its makers—The Kroger Company.'"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077755/Yule-sorry-eat-100-year-old-Christmas-cake-celebrates-milestone-70-year-old-fruit-cake-auction.html#ixzz51hlOVHSb

 

[Belle Montgomery]

I do NOT blame you one bit!

 

[Schwallanscher]

Would you be brave enough to try a piece?.

No I would not be brave enough.

that's a no brainer - rancid butter is not dangerous, it just smells and tastes bad - i'll try it

bring on that fruitcake

 

[tbuckley]

I assume that most of you have never had a good homemade fruit cake. My mother-in-law made fruit cakes that were actually good, unlike those sold in stores. I recently saw very small fruitcakes for $4.99 at a local business that were mostly walnuts. I miss the homemade fruit cakes and have never been able to duplicate those that my mother-in-law made, but knowing her, she probably kept the real recipe a secret.

 

[nitrofd]

that's a no brainer - rancid butter is not dangerous, it just smells and tastes bad - i'll try it

bring on that fruitcake

Schwally,we know you are strange.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Schwally,we know you are strange.

That's because he's from the mountainaous region of Germany, Bavaria. I have heard that in other mountainous regions, let's say: Nepal, they even make a sort of tea from rancid butter ...

I assume that most of you have never had a good homemade fruit cake. My mother-in-law made fruit cakes that were actually good, unlike those sold in stores. I recently very saw small fruitcakes for $4.99 at a local business that were mostly walnuts. I miss the homemade fruit cakes and have never been able to duplicate those that my mother-in-law made, but knowing her, she probably kept the real recipe a secret.

Well, I join in to the jokes about fruit cake - but I guess I would like it myself...
@donna has provided a good recipe and what convinced me was that it has to be soaked in either rum or port or something like that. If it is rich and moist, I'd probably love it. Which is not a good idea, because from the OP we have learned that the Scott Expedition brought fruit cake as "high energy" food. High energy means high calory. The one thing I can do without at Christmas time is a source of additional calories ...

 

[nitrofd]

That's because he's from the mountainaous region of Germany, Bavaria. I have heard that in other mountainous regions, let's say: Nepal, the even make a sort of tea from rancid butter ...



Well, I join in to the jokes about fruit cake - but I guess I would like it myself...
@donna has provided a good recipe and what convinced me was that it has to be soaked in either rum or port or something like that. If it is rich and moist, I'd probably love it. Which is not a good idea, because from the OP we have learned that the Scott Expedition brought fruit cake as "High energy" Food. High energy means high calory. The one thing I can do without at Christmas time is a source of additional calories ...

At Christmas time calories do not count.didn'the your mother ever tell you that.

 

[tbuckley]

At Christmas time calories do not count.didn'the your mother ever tell you that.

That's why we set our scales back ten pounds for the holidays. I set mine back the day before Halloween and don't reset it until February.

 

[FarawayFriend]

At Christmas time calories do not count.didn'the your mother ever tell you that.

That's why we set our scales back ten pounds for the holidays. I set mine back the day before Halloween and don't reset it until February.

You learn something new here every day!!!

 

[redbob]

As a sidelight to the Fruitcake Saga, a number of years ago my wife decided to make fruitcakes for her staff and after burning up two Kitchenaid Heavy duty mixers we resorted to a Heavy Duty Milwaukee right angle drill and an industrial paint paddle to mix them. This effort has not yet been matched and more importantly not repeated. Also, when I traveled through Claxton, Georgia (Home of the Claxton Fruitcake Company) I would break out into cold sweats over memories of fruitcakes past.

 

[Pvt.Shattuck]

Intact. You see, they wouldn't eat it in 1911, either.
I actually like fruitcake. Send them to me.

 

[jackt62]

Nothing like good ole' refrigeration.

 

[WJC]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...tarctica-looked-and-smelled-edible/569949001/



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Researchers in Antarctica have discovered a tin of untouched Fruit Cake. It was found on Cape Adare, Antarctica. It was found in the continent's oldest building, built in 1899. The fruit cake was thought to have been left there by Robert F. Scott's 1911 Terra Nova Expedition. The tin container, was actually made of tin-plated iron alloy tin, was somewhat rusty when found. It held a paper covered Huntley & Palmers fruitcake. The cake was found to be in good shape. Actually calling it near edible. The researcher's said it felt and looked like a new fruitcake. According to Lizzie Meek, the Antarctic Heritage Trust said, "If you got quite close to it that you could smell that slightly off smell of butter that's gone wrong." She did say the fruitcake looked and smelled edible. Except that rancid butter thing. The company H & P were a brand that Scott used during this time. It was brought along as a high energy food. The extreme cold is credited with it's preservation. About 1,500 objects were recovered from two huts.. I guess no animal testing was done on the fruitcake.

Thanks gfor posting this.
Some will see it as confirmation of their low opinion of fruit cakes.
I recall reading about this when it was announced and wondering at the amount of material that researchers were able to recover from those abandoned huts. True 'time capsules!

 

[Solomon]

Fun post! I've always wanted to get down to the continent.

I remember when some of Shackleton's whiskey was found, but didn't know it had been reproduced (per the article below) or that they'd returned it to his hut, unopened.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/shackleton-s-whisky-returned-to-antarctic-hut-1.1304252

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

The researcher's said it felt and looked like a new fruitcake.