Timing is everything

lola, I don't think so. Whatever survives the holidays will get wrapped up and saved for next year. I'm thinking of trying to get on a schedule of making suet puddings in even-numbered years and saving one for the following year (as I did in 2008 and 2010) and fruitcakes in odd-numbered years and saving half. But we'll see if there is still fruitcake by Epiphany.

If you get tempted to try a commercial fruitcake, get a good one. There's a lot of bad fruitcake out there which I think is the source of the fruitcake jokes.

lola I trust this is not another vocative for 'Tony' :) I assume it denotes LOL again - but not on google, it doesn't! I've made a diary note to PM ye on 6 Jan, Vinny :)

P.S. By which time I expect the prayers of Nutrax to have worked and I'll have returned to the fold. Bah; humbug!

Does it matter?What does it matter? Does anyone actually eat them anyway? (From a non-fruitcake eater)

I would try one if Vinny made it. I'm not rushing out to the stores on Black Friday to stock up though, that's for sure.

I have said before that my theory is that people who say they don't like fruitcake haven't had the good stuff.

It's very expensive to make a fruitcake that's worth eating, so there is a lot of crap about. These guys make a good one, but they don't give it away.