Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Happy Birthday, Jill

Jill of Who Could Ask for Anything More is 40 today. Happy birthday, Jill. Hope this will be your best decade yet.

6 comments:

Jill said...

Melanie- Thank you so very much! I've had a wonderful BIG 4-0 birthday today, and you've helped make it so special. I AM looking forward to this decade.

Baba said...

Hi Melanie, wow.. your Christmas cake looks wonderful...Is this a fruitcake? I am going over and wish Jill a birthday wish.I will be back later to get to know you. Baba

Melanie Rimmer said...

Fruitcake seems to be thought of badly in the US, from what I gather. I've heard tales of the fruitcake given as a gift, and passed along as a gift to someone else as soon as possible, until it had gone right round the family three times. I've followed internet discussions with Americans expressing very strong views on the hatefulness of fruitcake. I don't know what recipes you guys are making, but you really need to find a better one!

In Britain, most every family has a fruitcake like this one at Christmas. Nowadays perhaps more people buy them ready made. Covered in marzipan and royal icing and decorated with a plastic robin or a sprig of holly, with a red or golden ribbon around the edge. We expect to be offered a slice whenever we visit people at Christmas time, and although some people don't like it, most people do. It's particularly delicious with a glass or sherry or port, and I love Christmas cake served with strong hard cheese. We'd also expect to see a fruitcake like this at all weddings (what kind of cake do Americans serve at weddings?) and often at birthdays, baptisms and so on. It's considered a delicious luxury, so good we save it for special occasions. It should be rich and moist and flavoured with spices and alcohol, it should have big pieces of glace cherry and lots of lovely plump fruit.

Don't you have Christmas cake in the US? What about Christmas pudding, or mince pies? I can't imagine Christmas without them.

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