Food & Dining
Links to Food & Dining On-Line

• Food:  Strouffli, Napolitano Honey Balls for Xmas from Mamma Louise

• Good Eats:  Game Bird Recipes from The Countryman Press, Weston

• Links to Food & Dining Info On-Line:  OK ... Fruitcake

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Some folks love it, while some consider it an inferior building
   material to brick.  But whatever your attitude, it's a part of Xmas.
   So in that spirit, we say:

OK ... Fruitcake

fruit·cake (frööt´käk´) n.
1. A heavy, spiced cake containing nuts and candied or dried fruits.
2. Slang. A crazy or an eccentric person.
The American Heritage Dictionary

Fruitcakes make ideal gifts because the Postal Service
has been unable to find a way to damage them.
                                                                 Dave Barry

When, where, and how "fruitcake" came to be associated with someone 'nuts' {?!?} or eccentric is something we'll leave to the linguists and etymologists.  For our purposes this month, all we're interested in is the original definition -- that confection of fruit, nuts, and, depending upon the confectioner, God knows what else.  ...

In that dark, we hope rum- or brandy-soaked light, we went in search of fruitcake recipes on the web, and, as you might guess, we found them -- just like fruitcakes at Christmas -- in abundance.

Given the sheer magnitude of sifting and sorting through all of them, and in the spirit of generosity which is Christmas, we thought better of it and decided to leave that task to you.  And since we were not about to try each recipe, we don't have any easy way of rating them.  Therefore, once again, we leave off our more usual approach to links -- three or so with a few comments -- and leave you to your own devices and desires to peruse {or not} any or all of the many fruitcake recipes we found.

Here, then, in no particular order, are more fruitcake recipes than even the most sane person with lots of time on her or his hands would ever know what to do with.  ...  Good luck.  ...

Links to Fruitcakes Galore ...

• Grand Final of Britain's Finest Fruit Cake Recipe Competition

• Fruitcake Fundamentals

• Santa's Net Fruit Cake

• Carrot Fruit Cake

• Recipe for fruit-cake-1

• Recipe for fruit-cake-2

• Urban Legends Reference Pages: Christmas, The Ultimate Fruitcake Recipe

• From Sandi's Recipe File - Feast Day Fruit Cake

• Fruit Cake W-O Nuts

• Low fat fruit cake recipe

• Alfonso's Loft- Specialty Fruitcake

• Buttermilk Pecan Fruitcake

  • This is enough so far for each of the twelve days of Xmas.

• Creole Christmas Fruitcake

• Fiesta Fruitcake

• Boiled Fruit Cake

• Brazil Nut Fruit Cake

• Christmas Cake

• Japanese Fruit Cake with Filling

• Christmas Fruit Cake

• Fruit Cake Cookies

  • Has anyone been keeping score?

• Christmas Wreath Cake

• Easy Light Fruitcake

• Elegant Light Fruit Cake

• Marigot Bay Fruit Cake with Tropical Icing

• BBC - Food - Ask the Chef [When and how should I ice it?]

  • We're up to one for each year through your silver anniversary.

• Mom's Best Fruit Cake

• Never Fail Fruit Cake

• Persimmon Streusel Cake

• Stained Glass Cake

• New Orleans Fruit Cake

• The- Lowfat Fruit Cake

  • Ok.  Now you've got one for each day of any month, no matter how long.

• Sugarless Fruit Cake

• Tiny Christmas Fruitcakes

• Vegan Fruitcake

• White Fruit Cake

• Newfoundland--Dark Fruit Cake

• Nancy's Ridiculous Recipes - Christmas Fruit Cake

• Recipes from No. 10 -  #2 Fruit Cake [FYI:  That's No. 10 as in Downing Street.]

• Recipes for Cakes by iChef:  Fresh Fruit Cake

  • Thirty-nine is always a good number to stop at.  Jack Benny did.

• Rich Dark Fruit Cake

• SantaCentral.Com - Civil War Fruit Cake

• Friendship Fruit Cake

• Jamaican Fruitcake

• Old Fashioned Fruitcake

• Panforte Ei Siena

• Recipes, Cakes (Fruit Cake) - Bed & Breakfast Inns ONLINE

• Festival Dishes fruitcake from Indianeat.com

• Nonny's Fruit Cake

• Mexican Fruit Cake

Alright.  This won't take you up to Cinqo de Maio.  But it's enough recipes so that you'll be able to try one every day between Christmas and Ash Wednesday.  ... And by then, even if you've only tried a few, it's probably a good time to start fasting anyway.  ...  Meanwhile, enjoy.

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About Links to Farm & Garden On-Line
The amount of info on the web is enormous, as anyone who's ever tried to run a search can attest to.  To put it all in context, best estimates say that only a fraction -- maybe 20 - 40 % of what's out there -- is actually making its way to the search engines. 

Well, here at DownStreet, we'd like to try to help.  So each issue, we post a few links in Farm & Garden to sites that might interest you.  Sometimes the links will be related to one another  ...  sometimes we'll just offer up a somewhat random sampling.  Sometimes they're about Vermont sites, sometimes not. 

Of course, while we can't vouch for the fact that every link we provide will be of interest to everyone, we do our best to filter out the noise and the bustle and focus on quality sites.  ...  In that light, we hope you enjoy these sites as much as we have.

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