I'm fed up with celebrations....!!!

[yorkietalkjilly]

Just had a slice of fruitcake! Mmmm. Was sure good.

[kjc]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Just had a slice of fruitcake! Mmmm. Was sure good.

.... placing orders now...

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by kjc

.... placing orders now...

LOL. I've always wanted to put a glaze on one as they sometimes do in England.

[Harrysmum]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Sally, I was watching an old movie about wartime in Britain when obviously rationing was rife. The story starts with a large, fancy cake being the Hitchcockian MacGuffin and it and its weight are featured so prominently one begins to crave cake, which is beside the point. haha. But more than one character talks about how light the cake is and that it was obviously made with eggs or real eggs. What does that mean? Do you know what was used in place of eggs to make cake back in wartime Britain that coincidentally made cakes actually heavy in actual weight?

Jeanie - I was not alive during the war!!!!

But I've looked it up, and what I'm presuming is that they used dried eggs

Rationing started in June 1942, and only 1 egg was allowed per person per week. And so our War Office imported dried egg powder from the USA

Apparently it's the complete egg, with just the moisture and the shells removed. One tin equated to 12 eggs, and just had to be reconstituted with water as and when needed. Apparently it wasn't very popular though....I'll ask my mum about it all when I see her later x

[Harrysmum]

Originally Posted by kjc

OMG! I love fruitcake, the dark variety, and have been searching for a great one for years! I eat the whole cake (throughout the holidays... no one else eats it here) and I do extend the 'season' to include January! I love the all fruit mincemeat pies too! (never had one with meat, but willing to try!) And I thought I was alone and a closet fruitcake consumer at that, lol!

Sally... what's roasties?

Good morning Earlybird!

I love a slice of warm fruitcake...with Dairylea cheese squashed onto it!!!

And I'm sorry, roasties are just good old roast potatoes.... x

[Wallee]

Mmmm. I love dark fruit cake. I grew up eating that and my parents (who are in their 80's now still get requests from all of us kids to make it instead of gifts as it is very expensive to make now. They still use a recipe that was my grandmother 's from England. My dad still wraps it in cheesecloth and continually soaks it in dark rum. Hehe, I remember once when I first was married 30 years ago going to their place one Christmas morning and over indulging in the cake and getting a little drunk.