Tea? (Part 3)

[MikeG]

@MikeG would you be safe eating then riding after a few slices of that super sounding cake ?

Not sure I'm even safe riding before a piece of cake......

 

[MikeG]

You mean something like these? http://recipespastandpresent.org.uk/recipes/cakes.php

Although I've an Aunt that would disagree with your two month rule. Christmas cakes for next year were made last year. They only weigh around a 14lb apiece. When ready.

That rich Dundee cake is getting there.........

Take the 2 month rule as the absolute bare minimum. We fed the top tier of our wedding cake for 2 years before eating it. Now THAT was awesome!

 

[classic33]

@MikeG knows one of them, not too far from you either.

Nay lad, he doesn't know him. He'd like to know him so he could return the compliment however.

 

[MikeG]

Right up the back end.........

Sorry, what?

 

[MikeG]

Nay lad, he doesn't know him. He'd like to know him so he could return the compliment however.

Nah. I'd just shake his hand and buy him a beer........

 

[classic33]

Nah. I'd just shake his hand and buy him a beer........

That'd be illegal. Purchasing alcohol for consumption by a minor.

 

[classic33]

Classic, I'm going to help you out here. Pay attention.......

Make a dense home-made fruit cake, with the fruit soaked for 24 hours beforehand, and the cake made 2 months before it's eaten. Dark sugar. You need a recipe from about 1960 or earlier. Soak it little-and-often with a decent brandy. A few days before serving make a double triple batch of marzipan from ground almonds, egg whites and caster sugar. Spread some apricot jam on the cake, and put half inch thick slabs of marzipan over the whole thing. Then, mix up some home-made Royal icing, using egg whites and glycerine, and spread liberally. Allow to dry and set. Don't decorate. Don't put it on a cake stand. Don't give any to anyone else. Simple.

The sheer puniness of chocolate cakes and lemon drizzles, Victoria sponges and coffee and walnut mean they aren't fit to appear in the same thread. They're the things you get out for guests, as you hide the fruit cake away.

Now, I want you to take a long hard look at yourself, and sort yourself out. I don't want to have to ask WD to put your cakes where they belong.

Anything there you're struggling with?

Two things:
Why would you want a thick fruit cake & where would you purchase the thick fruit for the thick fruit cake?

 

[MikeG]

That'd be illegal. Purchasing alcohol for consumption by a minor.

He was a minor in 1992/3 or 4 when he shot me. By the judicious use of maths (OK, I took my shoes and socks off), I'm pretty sure that he's now old enough to consume a beer.

 

[classic33]

That rich Dundee cake is getting there.........

Take the 2 month rule as the absolute bare minimum. We fed the top tier of our wedding cake for 2 years before eating it. Now THAT was awesome!

Aunt is Irish! Why would she make a Dundee cake?

 

[MikeG]

Two things:
Why would you want a thick fruit cake & where would you purchase the thick fruit for the thick fruit cake?

Maybe thick was the wrong word. I'm often getting my worms mixed up. I should have said "rich". Dense, rich, dark, strong fruit cake.

 

[MikeG]

Aunt is Irish! Why would she make a Dundee cake?

To give to me, of course.

 

[classic33]

He was a minor in 1992/3 or 4 when he shot me. By the judicious use of maths (OK, I took my shoes and socks off), I'm pretty sure that he's now old enough to consume a beer.

Don't touch the fruit cake!

 

[MikeG]

Don't touch the fruit cake!

 

[stephec]

Don't touch the fruit cake!

There's enough on here already.

 

[classic33]

Maybe thick was the wrong word. I'm often getting my worms mixed up. I should have said "rich". Dense, rich, dark, strong fruit cake.

So you want a thick, rich fruitcake. That's also dark & strong?