I miss GOOD fruitcake and that is complicated by my wife's need to be gluten-free.
We were looking at her grandmother's hand-written recipes from the depression era and found one for "inexepensive fruitcake." Basically raisins, prunes and dates with no glazed, colored fruit.

I adapted it with 2 cups of white rice flour, 2 cups of buckwheat flour, 1 cup of almond flour, blackstrap molasses, pinch of apple pie seasoning a a fair amount of domestic brandy + sufficient water to mix. Made two solid loaves.

Came out great!

I don't want an answer, but I know some of you will post a number. I'm guessing that all of you have hundreds, if not thousands, of CDs/DVDs. If you buy a new car or a new computer, you will probably have no way to play those CDs. Sure, we can download what we want - if we can find it. Then, we have to organize it on the computer, keep it backed up, and decide what to transfer some of the songs to another device for playing in the house or car. In other words, it's a nuisance.

I still have Cd and DVD players, so I can take a disk off the shelf and play it. There are still lots of Cd players available on Amazon, but they're generally small, "Boombox" types. Amazon still has lots of DVD players available, too, and they're generally under $50. I wonder if I should buy one as insurance against future unavailability. You can also buy a VHS player, but they're close to $300. For almost $400, you can buy an 8mm projector that also records to digital. If I had a lot of undigitized 8mm film, I might be tempted.


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FYI - Vinyl record sales outperformed CDs in the US for the first time since 1987, according to a new report. Just over 41 million vinyl records were sold in 2022, to the tune of $1.2bn (£. 99bn). Only 33 million CDs were sold, amounting to $483m.

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