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Mark and Shimelle sent a proper English Christmas cake. It arrived on Christmas Eve in a box that was covered in bright green tape marked "United States Department of the Treasury -- Customs Service". There was a slit in the bottom of the box, but I couldn't tell whether anything was missing. Inside was a beautiful handmade card and the cake. It's fantastic, all moist and fruity. Properly soaked/cured, as it were.
This reminds me -- when we were out doing some shopping last weekend I flipped through the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Holidays and wound up skimming the section on fruitcake and "repurposing" a fruitcake. Based on what I read there, this particular specimen is not suitable for repurposing. It is just too good.
I debated sending some of it to our friend Mike, who might appreciate some of this stuff being as he hails from the British Isles but is currently in Austin. These days, when you send stuff through the mail the postal worker at the counter asks if the package contains anything "liquid, fragile, flammable, perishable or dangerous". I think at least two of those would apply to this cake.
Good stuff.
~ flk.
This reminds me -- when we were out doing some shopping last weekend I flipped through the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Holidays and wound up skimming the section on fruitcake and "repurposing" a fruitcake. Based on what I read there, this particular specimen is not suitable for repurposing. It is just too good.
I debated sending some of it to our friend Mike, who might appreciate some of this stuff being as he hails from the British Isles but is currently in Austin. These days, when you send stuff through the mail the postal worker at the counter asks if the package contains anything "liquid, fragile, flammable, perishable or dangerous". I think at least two of those would apply to this cake.
Good stuff.
~ flk.
