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I mean how did the whole fruitcake thing start? Everyone makes jokes about how no one eats the fruitcake for Christmas dinner. Sorry if the question seems stupid but I don't really understand.
What does it mean?
Answer
yeah! fruitcake is delicious....if it's not too sweet :) I had fruitcakes for Christmas too...yummy
History (From Wikipedia)
The earliest recipe from ancient Rome lists pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins that were mixed into barley mash.
In the Middle Ages, honey, spices, and preserved fruits were added and the name fruitcake was first used, from a combination of the Latin fructus, and French frui or frug.[1]
Starting in the 16th century, inexpensive sugar from the American Colonies, and the discovery that high concentrations of sugar could preserve fruits, created an excess of candied fruit, thus making fruitcakes more affordable and popular[2]
In the 18th century, Europeans were baking fruitcakes using nuts from the harvest for good luck in the following year. The cake was saved and eaten before the harvest of the next year, so it was about a year old when eaten. Fruitcakes proliferated until a law restricted them to Christmas, weddings, and a few other holidays because they were considered "sinfully" rich.[1] Even so, the fruitcake remained popular at Victorian Teas in England throughout the 19th century.
Germany
Dresdner stollen is a fruitcake that originated in Dresden over 500 years ago.[3] Traditional Stollen are made with yeast, water and flour, and usually dried citrus peel (called "Zitronad(e)"), dried fruit, almonds, and spices such as cardamom and cinnamon. They are baked in a traditional form and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Stollen have a higher ratio of cake batter to fruit and nuts than American fruitcakes.
Italy
Panforte is a chewy, dense Tuscan fruitcake dating back to 13th century Siena. Panforte are stongly flavored with spices and baked in a shallow form.
In the United States
Typical American fruitcakes are rich in fruit and nuts.
Mail-order fruitcakes in America began in 1913. Some well-known American bakers of fruitcake include Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas, and The Claxton Bakery in Claxton, Georgia. Both Collin Street and Claxton are southern companies with access to cheap nuts, for which the expression "nutty as a fruitcake" was derived in 1935.[2] Commercial fruitcakes are often sold from catalogs by charities as a fund raiser.
Most American mass-produced fruitcakes are alcohol free, but traditional recipes are saturated with liqueurs or brandy, and covered in powdered sugar, both of which prevent mold. Brandy or wine-soaked linens can be used to store the fruitcakes, and some people feel fruitcakes improve with age.
In the United States, the fruitcake has been a ridiculed dessert. Some blame the beginning of this trend with Tonight Show host Johnny Carson.[2] He would joke that there really is only one fruitcake in the world, passed from family to family. Carson is no longer alive but the tradition lived on with "The Fruitcake Lady" (Marie Rudisill), who made appearances on the show and offered her "fruitcake" opinions.
For the last twelve years over 500 people have shown up in Manitou Springs, Colorado each January for the Great Fruitcake Toss. "We encourage the use of recycled fruitcakes", says Leslie Lewis of the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce. The all-time Great Fruitcake Toss record is 1,420 feet, set in January 2007 by a group of eight Boeing engineers, who built the Omega 380, a mock artillery piece fueled by compressed air, pumped by an exercise bike. Dan w. Etion was the original founder and showed his idea to his brother named Stene G. Etion.
In the UK
In the UK, fruitcakes come in many varieties, from extremely light to those that are far moister and richer than their American counterparts, and remain extremely popular. The traditional Christmas cake is a fruitcake covered in marzipan, and then in white satin or royal icing. They are often further decorated with snow scenes, holly leaves and berries (real or artificial), or tiny decorative robins or snowmen.
Fruitcake (or fruit cake) is a cake made with chopped candied and/or dried fruit, nuts and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom certain rich versions may be iced and decorated. Fruitcakes are often served in the celebration of weddings and Christmas.
yeah! fruitcake is delicious....if it's not too sweet :) I had fruitcakes for Christmas too...yummy
History (From Wikipedia)
The earliest recipe from ancient Rome lists pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins that were mixed into barley mash.
In the Middle Ages, honey, spices, and preserved fruits were added and the name fruitcake was first used, from a combination of the Latin fructus, and French frui or frug.[1]
Starting in the 16th century, inexpensive sugar from the American Colonies, and the discovery that high concentrations of sugar could preserve fruits, created an excess of candied fruit, thus making fruitcakes more affordable and popular[2]
In the 18th century, Europeans were baking fruitcakes using nuts from the harvest for good luck in the following year. The cake was saved and eaten before the harvest of the next year, so it was about a year old when eaten. Fruitcakes proliferated until a law restricted them to Christmas, weddings, and a few other holidays because they were considered "sinfully" rich.[1] Even so, the fruitcake remained popular at Victorian Teas in England throughout the 19th century.
Germany
Dresdner stollen is a fruitcake that originated in Dresden over 500 years ago.[3] Traditional Stollen are made with yeast, water and flour, and usually dried citrus peel (called "Zitronad(e)"), dried fruit, almonds, and spices such as cardamom and cinnamon. They are baked in a traditional form and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Stollen have a higher ratio of cake batter to fruit and nuts than American fruitcakes.
Italy
Panforte is a chewy, dense Tuscan fruitcake dating back to 13th century Siena. Panforte are stongly flavored with spices and baked in a shallow form.
In the United States
Typical American fruitcakes are rich in fruit and nuts.
Mail-order fruitcakes in America began in 1913. Some well-known American bakers of fruitcake include Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas, and The Claxton Bakery in Claxton, Georgia. Both Collin Street and Claxton are southern companies with access to cheap nuts, for which the expression "nutty as a fruitcake" was derived in 1935.[2] Commercial fruitcakes are often sold from catalogs by charities as a fund raiser.
Most American mass-produced fruitcakes are alcohol free, but traditional recipes are saturated with liqueurs or brandy, and covered in powdered sugar, both of which prevent mold. Brandy or wine-soaked linens can be used to store the fruitcakes, and some people feel fruitcakes improve with age.
In the United States, the fruitcake has been a ridiculed dessert. Some blame the beginning of this trend with Tonight Show host Johnny Carson.[2] He would joke that there really is only one fruitcake in the world, passed from family to family. Carson is no longer alive but the tradition lived on with "The Fruitcake Lady" (Marie Rudisill), who made appearances on the show and offered her "fruitcake" opinions.
For the last twelve years over 500 people have shown up in Manitou Springs, Colorado each January for the Great Fruitcake Toss. "We encourage the use of recycled fruitcakes", says Leslie Lewis of the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce. The all-time Great Fruitcake Toss record is 1,420 feet, set in January 2007 by a group of eight Boeing engineers, who built the Omega 380, a mock artillery piece fueled by compressed air, pumped by an exercise bike. Dan w. Etion was the original founder and showed his idea to his brother named Stene G. Etion.
In the UK
In the UK, fruitcakes come in many varieties, from extremely light to those that are far moister and richer than their American counterparts, and remain extremely popular. The traditional Christmas cake is a fruitcake covered in marzipan, and then in white satin or royal icing. They are often further decorated with snow scenes, holly leaves and berries (real or artificial), or tiny decorative robins or snowmen.
Fruitcake (or fruit cake) is a cake made with chopped candied and/or dried fruit, nuts and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom certain rich versions may be iced and decorated. Fruitcakes are often served in the celebration of weddings and Christmas.
How much can I sell a large set of J&G Menkin Americana Style England Ironstone porcelain for?
Sami
I have 12 cups and saucers, 12 dinner plates, 1 casserole dish with lid, 1 gravy boat, a sugar jar with lid, a creamer pitcher, 11 cereal bowls, 11 desert bowls, 12 small plates, and 2 serving dishes. I can find them on ebay, etc. for between $4.99 to $20 a piece, but I can not find a set like this anywhere. All of them are generally free from chips, cracks, or scratches.
"Generally" free from scratches, chips, or cracks means they are all in fantastic condition except for there is a small chip under the sugar jars lid.
Answer
Taking TH7`s advice regarding adding,
`In near-mint condition`
you might find that someone in the `Visual Arts` category
can provide a helpful link to a correct valuation.Seems good stuff there!
Make sure to get it professionally valued though I`ve done that at times
and discovered the £ value to be of less value, than my attachment! :) (:
Good Luck ..
Don`t sell the gravy-boat to C.W...he thinks you mean `gravy train`
and he`s luring/ tracking The Amish for someone else on it
but the wheels-spokes keep sticking...Velveeta, and The Wild West,
y`know... LOL...0ooooh! :)
Taking TH7`s advice regarding adding,
`In near-mint condition`
you might find that someone in the `Visual Arts` category
can provide a helpful link to a correct valuation.Seems good stuff there!
Make sure to get it professionally valued though I`ve done that at times
and discovered the £ value to be of less value, than my attachment! :) (:
Good Luck ..
Don`t sell the gravy-boat to C.W...he thinks you mean `gravy train`
and he`s luring/ tracking The Amish for someone else on it
but the wheels-spokes keep sticking...Velveeta, and The Wild West,
y`know... LOL...0ooooh! :)
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