Actually, most fruitcakes fall on the awful end of the spectrum, as they are mass produced and sold in ugly tins with pictures of cartoon santas and teddy bears and cardinal-birds wearing scarves and such on them, and given to you by people whose level of taste is right along with that.
Glicee' (I am probably spelling it wrong) fruit are those candied ones that appear to be made out of transparent rubber and taste more or less like they are. They are mysteriously bright red and green and bear no resemblence to actual fruit.
I've been known to make fruitcake. Two sorts, even, a white one and a black one. But I get real dried fruit for them. They good, though quite hard and heavy. They are even better several months later, especially if I have remembered to take them out from time to time and inject more rum into them. Lately I've forgotten. My phase of wanting to inject booze into food with syringes seems to have passed. By the way, if you are on injectable hormones you might want to re-use your syringes to inject rum into peaches.
