Fabulous! My husband’s annual fruitcake arrived today and this Christmas has arrived 🤶🏻
Oddly, when my grandparents got married in 1927, their wedding cake was fruitcake. Apparently it was a thing, as I’ve found a number of other wedding recaps in newspapers of the day that also mentioned fruitcake.
Thanks for your comment, Lori! You're right that making fruitcake for a wedding was a thing. I have found several recipes for wedding fruitcakes. It's funny that in one book it was called "bride's cake" and in another "groom's cake." I'm not quite sure how that tradition got started, but it's undoubtedly worth another post!
I’m no expert, but from what I’ve come across and researched, the brides cake was usually a fruit cake - until the fancier almond vanilla cakes gained popularity, and the grooms cake was the more traditional chocolate cake. Neither were anything like the elaborate cakes we see today!
My Mom mused to make the very best fruitcake. I wish I had saved her résumé. But I didn’t appreciate it. Anyway hers had a lemony taste. It was so good.
Sorry it took me more than a year to reply, Charlotte! There are SO many fruitcake recipes, even for lemon-flavored ones. Here's a link to one I found that might be good. The writer put it in muffin tins, but you could make it in a loaf pan. You'd just need to cook it longer. Here's the link: https://www.seedtopantry.com/2016/11/02/light-and-lemony-fruitcake/
Fabulous! My husband’s annual fruitcake arrived today and this Christmas has arrived 🤶🏻
Oddly, when my grandparents got married in 1927, their wedding cake was fruitcake. Apparently it was a thing, as I’ve found a number of other wedding recaps in newspapers of the day that also mentioned fruitcake.
Thanks for your comment, Lori! You're right that making fruitcake for a wedding was a thing. I have found several recipes for wedding fruitcakes. It's funny that in one book it was called "bride's cake" and in another "groom's cake." I'm not quite sure how that tradition got started, but it's undoubtedly worth another post!
I’m no expert, but from what I’ve come across and researched, the brides cake was usually a fruit cake - until the fancier almond vanilla cakes gained popularity, and the grooms cake was the more traditional chocolate cake. Neither were anything like the elaborate cakes we see today!
Thanks for the additional info, Lori!
My Mom mused to make the very best fruitcake. I wish I had saved her résumé. But I didn’t appreciate it. Anyway hers had a lemony taste. It was so good.
Sorry it took me more than a year to reply, Charlotte! There are SO many fruitcake recipes, even for lemon-flavored ones. Here's a link to one I found that might be good. The writer put it in muffin tins, but you could make it in a loaf pan. You'd just need to cook it longer. Here's the link: https://www.seedtopantry.com/2016/11/02/light-and-lemony-fruitcake/
This looks so good, Ruth! Love all the work you’ve put into this glorious cake! And thanks as always for your generous shout-out! ❤️
Thanks so much, Jolene!