I’m a midwesterner & my family bakes & likes fruitcake. Homemade from good ingredients is better than the cheap sawdust, glue & colored bits of plastic versions commercial bakeries make.
My family’s recipe is from The Laura Secord Canadian cookbook. James Beard has 1 or more recipes from his English mother in his book Delights & Prejudice.
One of Capote’s aunts, Marie Rudisill, wrote a little cookbook, publishing the fruitcake recipes from Capote’s cousin Sook Faulk (immortalized in his A Christmas Memory & of the fruitcake weather quote).
I just ordered his book, Delights and Prejudices, and thank you for recommending it. It looks like a treasure, and I will let you know what I find inside. Thank you. The book is filled with personal anecdotes, food history and offers a glimpse into the world of a trailblazer in the culinary arts.
We made this fruitcake during Christmas and it was a big hit! Thanks for writing this story for us, and sharing it here.
“It’s fruitcake weather!”
I’m a midwesterner & my family bakes & likes fruitcake. Homemade from good ingredients is better than the cheap sawdust, glue & colored bits of plastic versions commercial bakeries make.
My family’s recipe is from The Laura Secord Canadian cookbook. James Beard has 1 or more recipes from his English mother in his book Delights & Prejudice.
One of Capote’s aunts, Marie Rudisill, wrote a little cookbook, publishing the fruitcake recipes from Capote’s cousin Sook Faulk (immortalized in his A Christmas Memory & of the fruitcake weather quote).
I just ordered his book, Delights and Prejudices, and thank you for recommending it. It looks like a treasure, and I will let you know what I find inside. Thank you. The book is filled with personal anecdotes, food history and offers a glimpse into the world of a trailblazer in the culinary arts.