[span class="a12"]The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
-Johnny Carson
Funny thing is, my mom makes fruitcake every year. It's brutally expensive to make (all the candied fruit, dried nuts and booze- and the thick layer of marzipan on top). Her elderly relatives and some of her cohorts enjoy it.
Fruitcake is a sentimental thing for mom. They used to buy one from Woodwards every Xmas when she was growing up. Later, she started making it using Edith Adams' recipe (from the Vancouver Sun). She soaks the fruit in brandy in Nov, bakes the cakes the Remembrance Day weekend and then soaks the cakes until Xmas in rum.
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