Fruitcake is a heavy cake made of dried or candied fruits and nuts that are soaked in brandy or rum, often used in the celebration of weddings and Christmas.
The earliest recipe from ancient Rome lists pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins that were mixed into barley mash.
In the Middle Ages, honey, spices, and preserved fruits were added and the name fruitcake was first used. Robert Sietsema finds that inexpensive sugar from the American Colonies and the discovery that high concentrations of sugar could preserve fruits created an excess of candied fruit. The fruitcake was the way to use them.
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Assumption Abbey Fruitcakes - Dark, rich, traditional style of fruitcake. Baked slowly and aged, prepared by Trappist monks.
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Bage Company - Homemade Jamaican fruitcakes, also known as rum cakes.
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Brit Cakes - Moist fruity cake, freshly baked from a traditional British recipe. Soaked in rum, made to order with or without nuts.
Calypso Slices - Caribbean rum cake, nut free. Gift packaged in wooden, reusable crates in 1 or 2-pound sizes.
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Claxton Fruit Cake - From Georgia, in regular and dark flavors, made with a pound-cake batter.
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Collin Street Bakery - A family owned and operated bakery specializing in fruitcake. Cakes are packed in holiday tins.
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Critical Cakes - Caribbean black fruitcake, contains no salt, citron, nuts or nut by-products.
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Fruitcakes and More - Made with a rum glaze, and without citron. Available in 1 or 1.5-pound loaves.
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Georgia Fruit Cake Company - One and two-pound cakes, also available soaked in Kentucky bourbon. Order by mail or fax; downloadable order form in PDF format.
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Gethsemani Farms of the Abbey of Gethsemani - Handmade bourbon fruitcakes, bourbon fudge, and cheeses from Trappist, Kentucky monastery.
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Gloria's Classic Fruitcakes - Baked with glaçed fruits and all natural ingredients. Available in loafs or gift tins.
Meta Description: [ Gloria Sample's Classic Fruitcakes: "I bake the fruitcakes myself, using glaçed fruits and all natural ingredients. I make sure they're always moist, delicious, and every bit as memorable as my great grandmother's. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as my family has." ]
Gram's Fruitcake Company - Produces fruitcake without the little colored bits, but full of delicious things.
Knaub Farm Fruitcakes and Cookies - New York fruitcakes aged 3 months, pfeffernuse and cookies. Ships in USA.
Monastery Fruitcake - From Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, VA, made by Trappist monks. Links to other abbeys.
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Weston Fruitcake Company - Order fruitcakes online. Offering their signature 1882 fruitcake.
Whitaker's Gourmet Fruitcake - Made with bourbon-soaked fruit, wrapped in rum-soaked cheesecloth.
Zen Kitchen - Holiday fruitcakes preserved with Carribean Rum and wrapped in cloth and powdered sugar.
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