Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Kitchen Natter => Topic started by: Pescador on October 05, 2017, 18:10
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When do you make your cake for late December use?
I think that last year I made mine ib late October and then fed it weekly, and it was beautiful.
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I try to make mine end of September.
after saying that ingredients bought but cake still not made!
must try to get it done this week end.
may just line the tins ready ....
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Must get some more brandy, and check what else goes in it!!
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I always used to make mine on Bonfire night when the kids were young but don't often make a full one now as it just sits there waiting to be eaten by me!
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I don't make mine til just before the day, we don't like a heavily fruited traditional cake any more.
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it just sits there waiting to be eaten by me!
Sounds ideal to me. Last year it lasted me till mid-March!! My problem is not starting it before the big day!
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it just sits there waiting to be eaten by me!
Sounds ideal to me. Last year it lasted me till mid-March!! My problem is not starting it before the big day!
Like !
A fruit cake in the freezer is better than money in the bank ! :)
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The last time I made a 'special cake', the icing got scrapped off (chiselled probably) and then re-iced for my daughter's christening. She is now 32 years old! Never bothered to make one again, prefer to make a couple of mousse type desserts that can sit in the freezer and those that want som ething sweet can help themselves.
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I made a traditional cake last year,(minus the icing,I don't like icing), for the first time in years. I think there might still be a bit left in the cupboard actually. Don't think I'll bother this year as there's only me that eats it & im still trying to get rid of it off my hips lol
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I usually make mine during 1/2 term when I will usually have a couple of grandchildren to help me. Come the season, family usually take a chunk each so I'm not left with it.
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Thank you all for your replies. It seems that I am in a very happy position of loving rich, brandy soaked, extravagant fruitcake, the children have flown the nest, and the wife's not too keen on it, so I tend to get a fair percentage of it!
Looking at my calendar, I'm going to have make it next week
Organising my list of wishes to make while I'm stirring it !!!
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Thinking about it I baked a square one last year halved & quartered it, gave a quarter to my sister, kept a quarter, an eighth to mum & the rest divided again to produce 16ths & decorated those as individual cakes to give as gifts to various friends, that were well received
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Will be doing mine next friday hubbys away all day no interuptions , going back to the bero dundee recipe .
chrissie b
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Thank you all for your replies. It seems that I am in a very happy position of loving rich, brandy soaked, extravagant fruitcake, the children have flown the nest, and the wife's not too keen on it, so I tend to get a fair percentage of it!
Looking at my calendar, I'm going to have make it next week
Organising my list of wishes to make while I'm stirring it !!!
I thought you made a wish when mixing the festive pudding on “stir-up Sunday “
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Yes, wishes while stirring the pudding mix :)
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Thank you all for your replies. It seems that I am in a very happy position of loving rich, brandy soaked, extravagant fruitcake, the children have flown the nest, and the wife's not too keen on it, so I tend to get a fair percentage of it!
Looking at my calendar, I'm going to have make it next week
Organising my list of wishes to make while I'm stirring it !!!
I thought you made a wish when mixing the festive pudding on “stir-up Sunday “
Haha surely no harm in chancing your luck with a wish to go in with the cake😊
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Started soaking my fruit at the end of September (whisky here, not brandy). The cake will be baked towards the week before stir up Sunday and it'll be fed every week until about the week before Christmas when I'll marzipan and ice it.