Oatmeal cookies are the best! With raisens, butterscotch, walnuts or carob chips.
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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quester - Oct 28, 2005 7:57:19 am PDT #9578 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
quester - Oct 28, 2005 8:00:45 am PDT #9579 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
It's the distant and not-well-liked relative factor that does it, isn't it? I mean, if you have warm ovens and spice and gooey things soaking in booze and good smells and all that, it sounds quite nice. But when something vaguely stale arrives every year from Aunt Pearl who smells a little funny and doesn't seem to really like children, it's kind of the culinary equivalent of getting scratchy socks as a gift.
amych, this. Exactly.
sarameg - Oct 28, 2005 8:01:39 am PDT #9580 of 10002
ita, have/can you say something to them about it?
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2005 8:02:15 am PDT #9581 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Suddenly I am flashing back to the best dessert I ever had, which was a chocolate steamed cake, very rich and hot, with caramel drizzled on top.
You know what this is going to lead to, don't you?
....Hec's List of His 5 Best Desserts.
bon bon - Oct 28, 2005 8:02:23 am PDT #9582 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm not a fan of dried or pickled fruit, but the cake was good in spite of it. Like Tom was saying, fruitcake can be made right, but only with a lot of time and effort. So most fruitcakes are not unbelievably rich and complex confections of spice and liquor.
DavidS - Oct 28, 2005 8:03:53 am PDT #9583 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
....Hec's List of His 5 Best Desserts.
I already did that one.
DavidS - Oct 28, 2005 8:04:57 am PDT #9584 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I like fruitcake though I don't think I've had a really great homemade one.
What I really like though is rum cake. A great rumcake is bliss.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2005 8:05:00 am PDT #9585 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
....Hec's List of His 5 Best Desserts.
I already did that one.
Recently?
brenda m - Oct 28, 2005 8:05:02 am PDT #9586 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It did include dried raisins, currants, cranberries, blueberries, cherries and apricots (soaked overnight in booze). The only candied thing in it was ginger.
Ok, now that I would eat. Or might even try to make. It's just the candied stuff that skeeves me.
My neighbor makes a rum cake that will knock you on your ass. I suspect it's pretty much what a fruitless fruitcake would be.
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2005 8:05:40 am PDT #9587 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ahem....
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