Tonight's Topic: "Fruitcakes 4 U!"
ANSWERS = [ A - C - C ]
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But how much do you know (or care) about that Fruitcake -- which might be anchoring Auntie's Christmas tree?
Accordingly, for tonight's Net, can you poke out the correct answer for each of the three Fruitcake questions that follow?
Please choose from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each question listed below.
Good Luck and remember YOU are always a WINNER with us, regardless of your actual answers!
OK, Let's start poking, poking at those nuts and fruits -- yes, that means you too, Harry!
Question #1: In the early 1700s, the ancestor of today's fruitcake arrived in America from England. What was it called?
A. The plum cake, or
B. The pound cake, or
C. The Savoy cake
"Around the turn of the eighteenth century, the plum cake (later called fruitcake) came to America from England.
This cake, raised by beating air into butter and eggs, was much richer and sweeter than the old yeast-raised celbration cakes.
It was baked in large sizes for weddings, smaller sizes for parties celebrating Christmas and Twelfth Night.
Also newly arrived from England in the eighteenth century were the pound cake, which was basically a small plum cake without fruit, and the Savoy Cake, a type of Sponge cake."
[SOURCE: The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink [2007], p 82, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530796-2]
This cake, raised by beating air into butter and eggs, was much richer and sweeter than the old yeast-raised celbration cakes.
It was baked in large sizes for weddings, smaller sizes for parties celebrating Christmas and Twelfth Night.
Also newly arrived from England in the eighteenth century were the pound cake, which was basically a small plum cake without fruit, and the Savoy Cake, a type of Sponge cake."
[SOURCE: The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink [2007], p 82, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530796-2]
A. Harvest festivals, or
B. Thanksgiving feasts, or
C. Weddings
"... It was baked in large sizes for weddings, smaller sizes for parties celebrating Christmas and Twelfth Night...."
[SOURCE: The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink [2007], p 82, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530796-2]
Question
#3: Those bright, shiny red and green fruits
used in most fruitcakes today are called Maraschino cherries. What is true about the name "Maraschino"?[SOURCE: The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink [2007], p 82, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530796-2]
A. It's the name of the cherry variety (like "Bing" cherries), or
B. It's the name of the region in Croatia where the Italian Dalmatian marasca wild cherry grows, or
C. It's the name of the manufacturing process used to preserve the fruit.
"The maraschino cherries we know and use today in our drinks and on our desserts are not a variety of cherry, but named so due to the manufacturing process used to preserve them.
Originally maraschino cherries were marasca cherries (originated in Croatia) preserved in Italy's maraschino liqueurs, which is distilled from the same cherry.
Over the years the cherries caught the attentions of mostly aristocratic Europeans as a tasty little treat.
The cherries made their way to America and around Prohibition a controversy arose; with the ban of alcohol, so went these liquor-soaked cherries."
[SOURCE: Maraschino Cherries]
"Food Inspection Decision 141, issued in 1912 under the Food and Drugs
Act of 1906, stated that "maraschino cherries" should be applied only to
marasca cherries preserved in maraschino.
This decision further described maraschino as a liqueur or cordial prepared by process of fermentation and distillation from the marasca cherry, a small variety of the European wild cherry indigenous to the Dalmatian Mountains.
Products prepared from cherries of the Royal Anne type, artificially colored and flavored and put up in flavored sugar sirup might be labeled "Imitation Maraschino Cherries" or, if there was no reference to "Maraschino," might be labeled to show that they are preserved cherries, artificially colored and flavored."
"...The term "Maraschino Cherries" is regarded as the common or usual name of an article consisting of cherries which have been dyed red, impregnated with sugar and packed in a sugar sirup flavored with oil of bitter almonds or a similar flavor."
[SOURCE: FDA -- CPG Sec. 550.550 Maraschino Cherries]
=================Originally maraschino cherries were marasca cherries (originated in Croatia) preserved in Italy's maraschino liqueurs, which is distilled from the same cherry.
Over the years the cherries caught the attentions of mostly aristocratic Europeans as a tasty little treat.
The cherries made their way to America and around Prohibition a controversy arose; with the ban of alcohol, so went these liquor-soaked cherries."
[SOURCE: Maraschino Cherries]
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This decision further described maraschino as a liqueur or cordial prepared by process of fermentation and distillation from the marasca cherry, a small variety of the European wild cherry indigenous to the Dalmatian Mountains.
Products prepared from cherries of the Royal Anne type, artificially colored and flavored and put up in flavored sugar sirup might be labeled "Imitation Maraschino Cherries" or, if there was no reference to "Maraschino," might be labeled to show that they are preserved cherries, artificially colored and flavored."
"...The term "Maraschino Cherries" is regarded as the common or usual name of an article consisting of cherries which have been dyed red, impregnated with sugar and packed in a sugar sirup flavored with oil of bitter almonds or a similar flavor."
[SOURCE: FDA -- CPG Sec. 550.550 Maraschino Cherries]
"The worst gift is a fruitcake.
There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep
sending it to each other."
[9 Funniest Things Ever Said About Fruitcake]
[9 Funniest Things Ever Said About Fruitcake]
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