10755 fruitcake your relatives Recipes

butter, cold, yellow cake mix, pie filling (your choice ), chopped walnuts

your favourite brewed tea, peaches, peeled,chopped and frozen

whole candied cherries, dark raisins, mixed candied fruit (of your choice), mixed nuts , your choice of nuts (not salted), all-purpose flour, vegetable oil, firmly-packed brown sugar, eggs, all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, ground allspice, ground cinnamon, fresh-squeezed orange juice orange juice

eggs, well beaten, butter, brown sugar, currants, citron, candied orange peel or 1/2 lb candied lemon peel, dates, chopped, white raisins, candied cherry, candied pineapple, honey, molasses, brandy or 1/2 cup sherry wine or 1/2 cup cider, mixed nuts, chopped, flour, cinnamon, mace, baking powder

fruitcake (about 1 1/4 lb), frozen blueberries, thawed, plain yogurt

granulated sugar plus additional for sprinkling the ramekins, crumbled fruitcake, crumbled white bread, milk, eggs, separated, sugar

a 3-oz package cream cheese, minced peeled fresh gingerroot, fruitcake

bacon, chopped, fruitcake (about 11/4 lb), all-purpose flour, cold unsalted butter , cut into pieces, gorgonzola cheese, at room temperature, cream cheese, at room temperature, chopped chives, worcestershire sauce, cayenne pepper

kosher salt, pork tenderloins, sliced into 2-to-3-inch medallions, crumbled fruitcake, unsalted butter, softened, dijon mustard, worcestershire sauce, freshly ground pepper, vegetable oil, dry sherry, heavy cream, sauteed spinach , for serving (optional)

margarine, honey or 2 tbsp maple syrup, white sugar or 1 cup brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, flour, quick oats, nuts (optional), peanut butter (optional), cinnamon (optional), ginger (optional), your favorite chocolate chips or 1/2 bag peanut butter chips or 1/2 bag butterscotch chips or 1/2 bag cinnamon bark

meatloaf recipe (your favorite ), hot dogs, mashed potatoes, grated cheese

low-fat milk, low-fat vanilla ice cream, frozen blueberries or 3/4 cup frozen strawberries, etc, your choice

sandwich size zip lock bag, your favorite cold cereal to 1/2 the nag or whatever you desire the amount to be, level tsp instant non fat dry milk adjust to consistency you want, dry non dairy creamer (to give the non fat dry milk body if you want) note you may want to run the powdered milk and non dairy creamer through a food processor first to break the non daitry creamer down a bit smaller or use an inexpensive non dairy creamer that breaks down easily in cold liquid), sugar or splenda to taste (whatever you put on your cold cereal), addition of dried fruits and nuts, cinnamon etc is a plus, plastic spoon, water from a tap or your water bottle you probably carry with you or from a water fountain on the run..

fruitcakes get an awful lot of bad press , especially the mass produced varieties, but a rich homemade version can be incredibly delicious., fruitcake is a mixture of fruits and nuts with just enough batter to hold them together. when wrapped in cloth and foil, saturated with alcoholic liquors regularly, and kept in in tightly closed tins, a fruitcake may be kept for months or even years, have it your way ..., if there are certain fruits you don tsp like , you can always include more of another, or some of your own favorites. dried fruits cooked in juice can take the place of candied fruits, and seeds can replace nuts. to convert a favorite dark fruitcake recipe to a light fruitcake, leave out the dark spices, use light colored fruits (golden raisins, dried apricots, etc.), and replace dark corn syrup or molasses with light corn syrup

go to the crafts store., purchase 1 or more bags of dried fruit, some plaster of paris, brown paint and a disposable cake pan., go home ., unwrap the dried fruit , carefully folding the wrapper inside-out and placing it at the bottom of your trash can. better yet, send it through your personal paper shredder and use it for insulation in the attic., mix the plaster of paris with water and pour into the disposable cake pan. place dried fruit on top, gently pushing in so it looks baked in the batter. let dry., take your fruitcake out of the disposable cake pan ., cover the top, bottom and sides with brown paint, avoiding the fruit., wrap your fruitcake in festive , colored saran wrap and finish with a bow. i like using red wrap because it gives a warm glow to the fruitcake., give your fruitcake to someone you want to impress. when they lift it, they ll say, wow! you must have made a really rich fruitcake! don tsp forget to smile and say, oh, its paris-style fruitcake., worry about someone trying to eat your fruitcake. nobody actually eats fruitcake... that s just a rumor. just so you know, the dried fruit won go bad because it has the same preservatives as twinkies, which have a shelf-life of about 237 years.

brown sugar, water, crisco shortening, salt, cinnamon, raisins, dried mixed candied fruit (the stuff they sell during the holidays. leftovers can be kept in the freezer for next years fruitca), chopped walnuts (or your favorite ), maraschino cherry , drained. the liquid can be saved and used for part of the water called for, flour, baking soda , dissolved in, water