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Dec 24, 2018 22:40:17   #
Marg Loc: Canadian transplanted to NW Alabama
 
B like both
And to answer another - love mincemeat pie. Anybody know the origin of the name mincemeat? DH told me tonight he always thought it was ground beef. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Dec 25, 2018 00:03:34   #
Morry Loc: Palm Springs, CA
 
Love fruitcake. The candied type is what I like -- Costco style.

A bit of observed fruitcake lore. Wedding cake in Canada it seems is almost always fruitcake. In the US it seems that it is always white cake. This observation was make after photographing hundreds of weddings in the Northwest and having eaten a lot of wedding cake.

Happy holidays.

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Dec 25, 2018 00:15:48   #
Marg Loc: Canadian transplanted to NW Alabama
 
Morry wrote:
Love fruitcake. The candied type is what I like -- Costco style.

A bit of observed fruitcake lore. Wedding cake in Canada it seems is almost always fruitcake. In the US it seems that it is always white cake. This observation was make after photographing hundreds of weddings in the Northwest and having eaten a lot of wedding cake.

Happy holidays.


I am a Canadian transplanted to Alabama and I can attest to your observation. One of our 5 daughters had a Christmas wedding here in the south. She had a typical delicious white wedding cake but we wrapped slices of my grandmotherโ€™s fruitcake and she and her new husband moved around at the reception distributing the slices and spending time with each guest. Melding of both worlds.
Marg

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Dec 25, 2018 06:29:49   #
Al Freeedman
 
Only when Nancy & Chuck visit.

Captain AL

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Dec 25, 2018 08:42:46   #
dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho
 
Marg wrote:
B like both
And to answer another - love mincemeat pie. Anybody know the origin of the name mincemeat? DH told me tonight he always thought it was ground beef. ๐Ÿ˜‚


Mincemeat pie came from the American early days, I guess still popular in Europe at the time, and was made from real meat, usually venison, that was minced, not ground. It was mixed with raisins. Over the years it has devolved into no meat. I want to say there is still some company who still sells the old fashioned stuff online but I am not sure. Much of this came from my grandparents over the years although I don't think grandma ever made the real venison kind of mince meat pie, not since I was born anyway.

You have stirred my memory and I will try to find some time today to look into it more.

I do love mince meat pie but my wife doesn't. I used to make mince meat pies years ago but the filling came from a jar, made by Nonesuch as I recall.

Dennis

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Dec 25, 2018 17:52:33   #
Leo Perez
 
You bet.

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Dec 25, 2018 21:06:44   #
KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia
 
My wife used to make some great fruit cakes. I loved them but never found a commercial fruit cake I really liked. They were time consuming and NOT cheap to make.

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Dec 25, 2018 22:50:15   #
Marg Loc: Canadian transplanted to NW Alabama
 
Oh you are so right about not being cheap but so good!

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Dec 26, 2018 16:54:30   #
hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA
 
I like Mincemeat pie also, but it is getting hard to find one that is good. Marie Callendar's used to make them around Christmas, but now you have to special order them.

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Jan 4, 2019 18:46:10   #
DickC Loc: NE Washington state
 
I love fruit cake, and the booze in them!!

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