Fruitcake

どんあクリスマス料理が大好きですか。

家族はフルーツケーキが一番好きです。

代表的なアメリカ人はフルーツケーキがきらいです。

アメリカのフルーツケッキがおいしくないです。

ときから私は十四年でしたフルーツケーキを作る。

でんとうてきなイギリスのフルーツケーキです。

ブランデーにしみます。

ほんとにとてもおいしですよ。

Generally Speaking

What is your favorite Christmas food? In our house, it's fruitcake. Typically Americans don't like fruitcake. American fruitcake tastes terrible.

I've made fruitcake every year since I was 14. I make a traditional English fruitcake. It's soaked in brandy. It really is delicious.

質問とコメント

1. In America, there are many jokes about fruitcake. It is often given as a present, but no one likes it. The joke is that the person who receives it, saves it and gives it to someone else next Christmas.

2. American fruitcake that you buy at the supermarket is pretty nasty stuff. It contains artificially-colored glazed fruit that is bright red and green. It is sort of sticky and sort of gummy and doesn't taste real.

3. My fruitcake is a traditional English fruitcake. It is made with many kinds of dried fruit and walnuts. I do use maraschino cherries...but that is the only artificially-flavored ingredient.

4. Since I was 14 years old, I've made fruitcake every year. Usually I make it on the Friday after Thanksgiving. When I lived in Japan, I made half a recipe and baked it in tiny Japanese cake pans in a a tiny Japanese oven. I used dried persimmons as one of the fruits.

5. After baking, I wrap the fruitcakes in brandy-soaked cheese cloth. They soak in brandy for one month.

6. Because my husband is English, he has no qualms about eating fruitcake.

Ingredients

* 4 pounds of dried fruit (mostly raisins, all kinds; dates, dried cherries, dried pineapple, currants, whatever you like) * zest of one orange (grated orange peel) * 2 jars of maraschino cherries (drained) * walnuts or pecans * 10 eggs * 1 pound of butter * 1 cup brown sugar * 2 cups brandy * 4 cups flour * 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, * 1/4 tsp cloves, 1/4 tsp ginger