Fruit cake aka Christmas Cake

We all have traditions.   One of my favorite family traditions is my mother’s fruit cake at Christmas. She bakes this weighty cake (it has to be about 4 lbs) only once a year, about 4 – 5 weeks before Christmas.  Dad is in the kitchen to supervise or rather to make sure enough booze is added to the cake to make it ….drinkable.  It is, after all, his birthday cake.  Dad is a Christmas day baby. The cake recipe was handed down from my grandmother.  I don’t think my sister has ever made it but I have tackled the fruit [...]