Quote from: Zythyra on January 10, 2009, 06:13:25 PM
I don't think you want to bring bacon in any form to Israel.

Z

Quote from: tekla on January 10, 2009, 05:39:56 PM
If Pica Pica was making it wouldn't it be a bacon bacon cake?

Bacon, is there anything it can't do?

i have made steamed bacon pudding, should i be expecting people in black to bundle me off soon, Or just be air-struck?

Funny, when I was in Israel I got bacon, in an omelette with cheese to boot.  The religion forbids them from eating it, not from serving it.

Fruitcakes make great catapult fodder. The less folks that eat bacon, the more for me. Mmmmmm bacon. Ba'con, chomp chomp. I loves bacon. Now I just have to figure how to make folks stop eating other food I like. 

Quote from: Pica Pica on January 11, 2009, 01:23:26 AM

Quote from: tekla on January 10, 2009, 05:39:56 PM
If Pica Pica was making it wouldn't it be a bacon bacon cake?

Bacon, is there anything it can't do?

i have made steamed bacon pudding, should i be expecting people in black to bundle me off soon, Or just be air-struck?

People in black loincloths.

Fruitcakes make great catapult fodder

Wow, I never thought of that, we build a little Trebuchet at work once and it was launching water balloons a solid block or so until the police told us it wasn't the best idea they came across that day.

i love a good trebuchet... the tower built one, but never fired it.

Quote from: Pica Pica on January 11, 2009, 03:17:15 PM
i love a good trebuchet... the tower built one, but never fired it.

I wonder how well an androgyne would work as trebuchet ammunition?

I think fruitcake is heavenly

I am fruitcake, hear me roar...

Quote from: KYLYKaHYT on August 29, 2009, 07:17:41 AM
I am fruitcake, hear me roar...

haha!

Again, another old discussion that was never fully finished.

Again, another old discussion that was never fully finished.

Not finishing it goes with the subject, fruitcakes are never fully finished either.

I read this about fruitcake storage. Interesting.

"after being slowly baked, the finished fruitcakes get their preservative treatment. Cheesecloth is soaked in brandy, bourbon, whiskey, rum or other liquor and then wrapped around the cooled fruitcake. The whole shebang is then wrapped in foil to ripen and age.

Fruitcakes soaked in liquor can literally last for years if you periodically add more liquor. Some fruitcake fans won't even touch a fruitcake until it has aged at least three years, although it's generally recommended that soaked fruitcakes be consumed within two years. Fruitcake should be tightly wrapped and stored in the refrigerator. Unwrap every few months and drizzle with liquor. Re-wrap tightly."

I wonder who originally thought of pickling a fruitcake in booze for storage?

Quote from: riven_one on September 02, 2009, 01:40:49 PM
Fruitcakes soaked in liquor can literally last for years if you periodically add more liquor. Some fruitcake fans won't even touch a fruitcake until it has aged at least three years, although it's generally recommended that soaked fruitcakes be consumed within two years.

Yeah, and if you plan to store your fruitcake for more than two or three years, you can simply substitute formaldehyde - or embalming fluid - for the booze. 

Fruitcakes soaked in liquor can literally last for years if you periodically add more liquor

Makes some sense, it sure worked for Uncle Frank.

Quote from: tekla on September 03, 2009, 03:36:25 PM
Fruitcakes soaked in liquor can literally last for years if you periodically add more liquor

Makes some sense, it sure worked for Uncle Frank.

and the queen mum

Her too.

Would eating some really old, liquored up fruit cake kill illness?  'Cause this one time when I was sick, I got REALLY, REALLY drunk and felt fantastic the next day...

Virginia contemplates keeping the fruitcakes she gets at Christmas and buying a large bottle of Jack