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<DIV><FONT size=4>Melynda writes:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=3>"Serve in small slices to people you truly love,
or <STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>people you'd like to love
you</FONT></STRONG>."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Is this a recipe for a fruitcake or a secret love
potion? If the latter, I expect the Palouse will soon have multitudes of
moldering jars of fruit, wine, and rum. To those that try this delightful
recipe, please let us know if it is truly a secret love potion. I see a
huge entrepreneurial opportunity here.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=4>From: "Melynda Huskey" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:melyndahuskey@earthlink.net"><FONT
size=4>melyndahuskey@earthlink.net</FONT></A><FONT size=4>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>To: "Chasuk" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com"><FONT size=4>chasuk@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT
size=4>>; "Sunil Ramalingam" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com"><FONT
size=4>sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</FONT></A><FONT size=4>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Cc: <</FONT><A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT
size=4>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT size=4>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 11:59 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Subject: [Vision2020] Fruitcake [was Re: Mark, Chas and Dan,
of Xtains]</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT size=4>> I'm not sure fruitcake is
particularly Christian . . . in fact it's hard to think of foods as
distinctively Christian as the Ashkenazi food I've learned to cook since Joan
converted is distinctively Jewish--piroghi, brisket, charoset, rugelach, chicken
soup with dill and matzoh balls, chopped liver. (My own denomination, the
Quakers, is mostly known for earnest potlucks of simple soup and whole grain
bread while praying for an end to world hunger and examining one's conscience on
the question of conspicuous consumption.)<BR>> <BR>> In the spirit of the
season (or, as we Friends say, "that day called by some Christmas"), here is my
recipe for the apotheosis of all fruitcake. It's too late for this year,
but if you start on [the day called by some] Halloween, 2006, by the end of
December you'll have something fit to lay next to the gold, frankincense, and
myrrh.<BR>> <BR>> Black Cake<BR>> <BR>> In October, chop
finely:<BR>> <BR>> 1 lb. dried apricots<BR>> 1 lb. golden
raisins<BR>> 1 lb currents<BR>> 1/2 lb dried cherries or
cranberries<BR>> 1/2 lb candied citron<BR>> 1/2 lb candied lemon
peel<BR>> 1/2 lb candied orange peel<BR>> 1/4 lb candied ginger<BR>>
<BR>> Put the fruit in a very large tupperware or glass container with a
lid. Pour over it one bottle of Mogen David concord grape Passover wine
and one of those small bottles of dark rum. Leave the fruit in a cool,
dark place for at least two weeks, but the longer the better. You could
keep it for as long as a year. Stir it from time to time.<BR>> <BR>>
When you're ready to make the cakes, put 2 cups of brown sugar in a heavy
skillet over medium heat. Stir constantly until sugar is completely
melted--don't let it burn, but let it get richly brown. Very carefully,
pour in a cup of hot water. The caramel will spit and clump. Keep
stirring it, CAREFULLY, until the caramel melts again. Put it
aside.<BR>> <BR>> Cream together 1 lb of butter and 1 lb of brown
sugar. Carefully add the fruit and its juices, 1 tablespoon vanilla,
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg and cinnamon. Beat in 12 eggs, one at a time.
Pour in the caramel essence. In a separate bowl, whisk together 1 lb plus
1/2 cup of unbleached flour and 1 tablespoon baking powder. Add to the
batter and mix thoroughly.<BR>> <BR>> Grease two big loaf pans and line
with wax paper or parchment. Pour in the batter and bake 90-110 minutes at
350 F. Let the cakes cool in the pans. When they are cool to the
touch, pull them out of the pans, wrap carefully in wax paper and leave them to
season for a couple of days at room temperature.<BR>> <BR>> Serve in small
slices to people you truly love, or people you'd like to love you.<BR>>
<BR>> Melynda Huskey<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -----Original
Message-----<BR>>>From: Chasuk <</FONT><A
href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com"><FONT size=4>chasuk@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT
size=4>><BR>>>Sent: Dec 19, 2005 4:32 PM<BR>>>To: Sunil
Ramalingam <</FONT><A href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com"><FONT
size=4>sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</FONT></A><FONT size=4>><BR>>>Cc:
</FONT><A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT
size=4>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT size=4>>>Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] Mark, Chas and Dan, of Xtains<BR>>><BR>>>On 12/19/05,
Sunil Ramalingam <</FONT><A href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com"><FONT
size=4>sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</FONT></A><FONT size=4>>
wrote:<BR>>>> When we lived in Malaysia, my parents loved our Sri
Lankan neighbor's<BR>>>> fruitcake recipe, and have made it for the
last 35 years or so. People<BR>>>> there loved it, and my folks
sometimes shipped some of their fruitcake to<BR>>>> family in
India. When they returned to the US in the late 80s, they
kept<BR>>>> making it, and are baffled by all the fruitcake jokes
here.<BR>>><BR>>>I love fruitcake! Is the recipe a closely
guarded secret, or can it<BR>>>be shared with all of your great friends on
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