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Sweet Fruitcake Dessert




Introduction

This article, entitled ‘Sweet Fruitcake Dessert’ is another in the series of dessert recipe reports released by The Atlas Gourmet. The intention behind its publication, as with our previous dessert reports, is to educate you, the reader, on fruitcake and dessert baking news, and to facilitate debate. We trust that it is productive, and that the dessert baking intelligence furnished is of use to you. Prior to taking any kind of action based on the cooking learning offered in this essay, it is crucial that you examine our disclaimer.

This is the recipe that my grandmother brought with her when she and her family left Russia in the early 1900″s.
As a child around 1920’s or so, while living on a farm in Pennsylvania which at that time there were a great amount of people who came from Europe, you needed to be able to do for yourself, she learned from her mother how to make a most delicious white fruit cake, a white fruitcake is a fruitcake that does not have any molasses, molasses which is very bitter, not having the molasses in the fruitcake gives it a lighter color, this gives it the name white fruitcake.

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Posted on on January 15th, 2009 in Dessert Recipes | No Comments »


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