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13 hours ago, kayb said:I once determined I would make Eudora Welty’s White Fruitcake, from the Jackson Junior League’s cookbook, for Christmas.
iIt was awful. Gummy. Pasty.
I froze the loaves, sliced them thin, and baked them again.
Made damned fine biscotti.
Sounds like one of the kind of fruitcakes my mother liked to wrap in cheesecloth, douse in rum, and age for a year or two in a cookie tin...
13 hours ago, kayb said:I once determined I would make Eudora Welty’s White Fruitcake, from the Jackson Junior League’s cookbook, for Christmas.
iIt was awful. Gummy. Pasty.
I froze the loaves, sliced them thin, and baked them again.
Made damned fine biscotti.
Sounds like one of the kind of fruitcakes my mother liked to wrap in cheesecloth, douse in rum, and age for a year or two...
