Posted on 12/03/2008 10:11:41 AM PST by NYer
Cherries aren’t supposed to be “green”............
It was so bad they couldn't get a scope past it (they thought it was colon cancer) rushed me to the hospital and the next morning I was in an operating room opened up from above my belly button to my groin!
Not a trace of cancer but they removed scar tissue as big as my fist. I am just now recovering to the point I can do work around the yard. Still no heavy lifting.
Green cherries.
These are not 'green' as in unripe, just regular red cherries dyed green.
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This thread reminds me that I have a wonderful Danish fruitcake recipe my Mom gave me....haven't made it in years.
:-)
Yes...but they are just rentals and sent back to their respective monasteries after Christmas.
There they are cleaned, dusted [and in rare cases, patched if a piece should happen to be missing] and boxed for next year....
I bet you didn’t think this thread would be so fun!!
LOL!
Here is one that is the best.....
http://www.collinstreet.com/pages/deluxe_fruitcake
Deluxe Fruitcake!! Can’t wait.
I think the fruitcake jokes were just the start of the whole "anti-Christmas PC thing" that's been permeating our society for the past couple of decades.
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Well, you know, with fruitcake you either love it or hate I guess.
LOL.
I'm with you there.
Give me a nice Irish Coffee and I am set for the evening.
ping
English sherry sponge cake ... yum ... with real(!) whipped cream on top!!!
Beginning on Thanksgiving, a fruitcake (the same one every year) is left on the steps,of a neighbor. The rest of the Christmas season, the fruitcake makes the rounds of the community going from home to home. When you give the cake away you also sign a Christmas card and add a Christmas message for all to read.
The day after Thanksgiving when I went out to get the mail, there it was in all its fruity glory.
Whoever has the fruitcake at 12 midnight on Christmas Eve has to store it away in their freezer until next Thaanksgiving.
Last year my sister had it and a large plastic Santa and Snowman on her porch.
Yes, the Santa and Snowman also make the rounds during Christmas too.
I love fruitcake too. However, I wish it had much less sugar because I am diabetic.
“It killed me when fruitcake started to become a joke to some people. It damaged the economy in Claxton GA and made Claxton fruitcakes hard to find.”
Maybe they were used in the annual fruitcake toss. lol
Me too -- that is why I can only have one thin slice. Same for pumpkin pie: one thin slice for the whole holiday season.
If they are square or rectangular, they are citron, which is a fruit. We prefer the fruitcake from the Collin Street Bakery, two large ones will be gone by the middle of January. It’s a tradition this Texas family has kept for over 100 years. I’m drooling just thinking about a slice with a cup of tea.
I was going to post the link, and then read further to see yours. We love Collin Street fruitcake, will continue to buy it, and I get all teary-eyed thinking how my grandparents would send a can to us no matter where we were living overseas, every year, never missed one. Even sent them to Vietnam when my daddy was there. It meant home, and family and love. Just opening the box and seeing that tin cover makes me a little kid all over again. I’ll cut a slice and and it will be like my elders are all alive again, and I’ll see my daddy’s smile as he gets his first taste of fruitcake for the season. Drats, who would have known I’d have to type through tears on a fruitcake thread.
‘What are those green things in the fruit cake?? ‘
The green square bits are a local fruit called a citron.
I think it is really an unripe Waltermelon, but, all the same it’s basically the rine of the fruit.
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