A Return to More Simple Gifts for the Holidays
By Sandy Powers
These are not any difficulties in the foreseeable future, in which changes in the economic era. We will return to the fun in our lives is unrelated to money. Although we will still be full of holiday gifts, gifts, many of whom came from the kitchen rather than the mall. Let the kitchen during the holiday gifts are thoughtful and personal. This is a real gift, from you. One of my recipes, my family and friends who look forward to receiving my pineapple fruit cake. No one threw out this fruit cake in!
Fruitcakes date back to Roman times when pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and barley mush were mixed together to form a ring-shaped dessert. Roman soldiers packed fruitcake with them on their long marches because of the fruitcake?s long shelf life. During the Middle Ages, cooks added honey, spices, and dried fruits to fruitcakes. Crusaders, like the early Roman soldiers, carried the fruitcake with them to sustain themselves for long periods on their marches to the Holy Land. An interesting historical twist to the lore of the fruitcake occurred in the early 18th Century when a few European countries outlawed the fruitcake because they were considered ?sinfully rich.?
As a special touch to the Pineapple Fruitcake, I note a note that says some of the history of the fruitcake and attach the gift.
Pineapple Fruitcake
2 and ? cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
? cup butter
? cup white sugar
? cup brown sugar
4 eggs, beaten
3 tablespoons orange juice
1 cup candied pineapple chunks
? cup candied cherries
1 and ? cup walnut pieces
Sieve flour, salt and baking powder. Butter and sugar together. Beat eggs. Mix in flour mixture. Mix in orange juice. Mix. Fold fruit and nuts. Pour a good grease and flour 9-inch tube pan at 300 degrees about 2 hours .* baking or toothpick out, until the clean when inserted. Cool pan.
* To stretch gifts, is divided into two small bread pan batter. Adjust cooking time. Please toothpick after 45 minutes, then 15 minutes.