Yesterday brought a gift from a lovely lady, so welcome. Fruitcake! I love fruitcake, and anyone who doesn't perhaps hasn't had good fruitcake.
It's keeping up my strength to knit Izzies, see the first finished of this group, with more to come.
One of the things I like about this is that after you stuff the doll, you sculpt the shape with needle and thread, and transform it into a little person, hands in pockets. The intended recipients, Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation, have seen this picture and are happy with the proposed dolls.
When I'm not knitting along to Click and Clack, I'm reading another Weir, another doomed Queen
I like the settings Weir describes, how they got around, on horseback or in a litter, so slow, what they wore, the food, and the whole period ambience, especially the fear, of the King's power and illness against which they had few protections. And they were all so young, marrying in their early teens, grandparents by their thirties sometimes. It's a gripping world to enter.
Happy day, everyone, misfits arrives later today with ordinary food, no fruitcake, but I'm already supplied.
Claxton fruitcake has been around since I was a child! I remember it well.
ReplyDeleteI got into a period of listening to the novels of Philippa Gregory for awhile. It was like I was living in two time periods, two worlds!
I love those dollies. They are just so sweet.
Yes, about the two worlds at once.
DeleteI have had on fruitcake I liked, but it wasn't packed with that candied fruit. Otherwise, I'm a no. I really like the doll! Some kiddos are going to love you.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think you need to like candied fruit in order to like fruitcake. I hope little kids will enjoy their dolls.
DeleteI love good fruitcake too, both dark and light.
ReplyDeleteYes, however it's served, I'm good with it. My mother's was very dark, not sure how that happened.
DeleteClaxton fruitcake. We've had them since I was a kid. When I WAS that kid and my mom bought them, I never liked them. As an adult with a better palate, I love them. But I'd never heard about Yorkshire style and that's a wonderuful idea. (Anything with cheese is a wonderful idea!)
ReplyDeleteIn Yorkshire it would be a slice of Wensleydale, local to the region, on the plate with your Christmas cake.
DeleteI do like a nice fruit cake. But I usually find it very rich.
ReplyDeleteI use the weight watches cake and steam it overnight in a pudding pan in the slow cooker. It comes out the same consistency as a boiled fruit cake but because it’s just three ingredients. Flour, dried fruit and fruit juice. It’s not heavy. Which for an Aussie Christmas is perfect.
You do have to allow for a midsummer Christmas!
DeleteHave a wonderful day
ReplyDeleteI have a friend here who was a grandmother at 38.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't born till my mother was 43!
DeleteThey are called Pocket Pals by friends who make them. The idea and shape are the same as well as the intention. Provide a little relief (and smiles) to a distressed little one.
ReplyDeleteI can accept the glacé cherries in fruit cake but pick out any mixed peel I find. Yes to cheese and maybe sliced apple served with it - also nice as a pudding substitute with custard
You sound pretty flexible with your fruit cake. One thing I really like about my gift cake is that it has angelica, which my mom could rarely get.
DeleteI've made many of these dolls for little children in distress.
My preference is for a dark fruit cake but any fruit cake will do as long as it is moist and full of good things. The brits were onto something with the mix of sharp cheese and sweet cake.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's a great combo, with either whisky or dry sherry.
DeleteI am not a fan of friut cake but maybe I just haven't had a good one. Enjoy yours. I love the knitted items. Have a great evening.
ReplyDeleteYou're in a group of fruit cake fans, but it's okay not to like it anyway!
DeleteParents liked fruitcake, and Sue still does, but I have not seen any for the past few years.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they're out of fashion? They used to be pretty common in stores.
DeleteThe little knitted people are wonderful. I hope the children will be happier.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice pattern, and they do develop a personality each.
DeleteI live fruit cake that my grandmother use to make. It has been a good many years since I have had it. I have never heard of eating it with cheese but a nice thick sliced toasted in a frying pan for breakfast is the best
ReplyDeleteCathy
I never heard of that recipe! It sounds worth trying.
DeleteFruitcake fan here too, but we make ours without the candied fruit. Just dried fruits and nuts and barely enough batter to hold it together. Will have to try it with a good sharp Cheddar.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how much personality an Izzie develops. The recipients will love them.
Thanks for the book report. I often will find your recommendations in the library, and usually like them. :-)
Skiff of snow here tonight; our winter is icumen in just now.
Chris from Boise
I think banana bread with fruit and nut additions is the nearest I come to making fruitcake, but it's pretty close. I do like how different the Izzies are, though all on the same pattern
ReplyDeleteQuite frankly fruitcake with anything, for any meal is perfectly satisfactory (and about 4 of your 5 a day....)
ReplyDeleteI suppose you can count it that way. Like eating carrot cake and counting as a vegetable..
DeleteI must be in the camp of not having eaten 'good' fruitcake because any I've had is terrible. Never liked Christmas pudding either - too sweet and just plain yuck.
ReplyDeleteAll the more for me!
ReplyDeleteI too enjoy Weir's Tudor Queen books. Not bad history, either. She does her research, I am sure. I want my fruitcake without candied cherries; the spouse loves every sweet chunk of them. Half and half cake, maybe?
ReplyDeleteYes, maybe two small cakes, one augmented with cherries?
DeleteI LOVE fruit cake. I never know if I should admit it, but there it is. I have a lot of catching up to do here.
ReplyDeleteIf you look through the comments you'll find you're in good fruit cake company!
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