I don’t know what it is about holidays and fruitcake.
I love the former but not-so-much the latter. There’s something about fruit and cake together that just makes my tongue curl – and not in a good way. It’s a texture thing that goes waaaaaay back to when I was shorter than everybody else because of my age.
(I told my mom to marry a taller man, but she didn’t listen.)
Height deficiencies aside, I’m always fascinated by international holiday traditions. The English, for example, make Christmas pudding, which isn’t anything like American pudding. (I don’t eat that either…Yes, it’s a texture thing.)
Nor is this “pudding” like our fruitcake, which I doubt has to steam-cook for six hours. The one is this video, however, is much lovelier than any of the fruitcake’s I’ve seen. And the wall of brandy that hit me when I zoomed in to capture the lighting of the proverbial “pudding” left me feeling chipper the rest of the day.
So enjoy and be sure to check out Clare’s blog, Clare Fare, for stellar recipes. Or, watch the rest of the video series.
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