Old-Fashioned Fruitcake Recipes
When I was young, the fruitcakes my mother bought were in round tins. They had small, red, green, and yellow hard square pieces of something in them, which I didn’t like. I don’t know what they were, but I doubt they were actual fruit. I’ve since eaten homemade fruitcake, and liked it. Most commercially-made fruitcakes are alcohol-free, but traditionally, some fruitcake recipes included alcohol; both for the flavor and as a preservative. That way, fruitcake could be made months ahead…