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Alton Brown's fruitcake is an expensive recipe, no bones about it -- so far $12 for liquor and $25 for fruit and spices, although I must specify that we had neither brandy nor rum in the house and I don't usually stock allspice and cloves, because mixed baking spice is usually sufficient when I want it.

But, aside from expense, it smells marvelous. And it's a refreshing change from red, green and yellow candied things (there are cherries, apricots, cranberries, sultanas, currants and I left out the dried blueberries, which were $8 for a 6oz bag, and the candied ginger).

I wonder how it's going to turn out.

Also, Cat Cora thwapped Elizabeth 'Citizen Cake' Falkner in the Battle of the Butchies.

Also also, our carpets are now clean.

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In reference to my comment in the car last night: now, THAT sounds like a good fruitcake.

How is Bast handling the clean carpet?

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Oh. Not well. When the man with the hoover and buffer was here, she ran into the bedroom and bunkered down in the laundry pile. Like, her ears were poking out, but I don't think she liked even that.

It was a morning of darkness and horror, I tell you.

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My god, that almost makes me wank fruitcake. Made with rice of course.

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You know, I bet it could be made with almond flour and rice flour half and half, because there's not a lot of flour in there. You make a suspension of fruit in a syrup of unfiltered apple juice, booze and sugar, and then add eggs and then a token cup of flour. We're cutting this one at Thanksgiving, if it doesn't go moldy, so I'll let you know which flours might best approximate the texture (but for now rice and almond are my best guesses.)

Oooh! I have a recipe for you! Clementine cake.

1 pounc clementines or satsumas
6 eggs
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
2 1/2 cup ground almonds
1 heaped teaspoon baking powder (Clabber Girl is gluten-free)

Put clementines in a pot and cover with cold water. Boil for two hours and let cool in the pot. When cool, cut and seed clementines, then put peel, flesh, and all in the food processor and puree.

Butter an 8 inch springform pan, then line the bottom with buttered wax paper. Preheat oven to 375F.

Beat eggs until thick and lemony-colored. Add sugar, almonds and baking powder. Fold in clementine puree. Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 40 minutes. Check for overbrowning and cover the top with foil. Continue baking 10-20 minutes longer, or until a toothpick in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Leave in the pan until cold.

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Now, I heart baking as much as the next guy, but for that price I could have Collins Street Bakery ship my Munner's favorite fruitcake to me. Or the Abbey of Gethsemane, and throw in the most drunken bourbonized fudge ever...

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Well, my favorite fruitcake is $30 for the full size, and has to be picked up in person and shipped to me, so I wanted to see if this compared. So I'm overbudget, but if I like it better... well, I'll have rum and brandy left over to do it next year.

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Fair. :)

*ponders macarons, sighs*

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That sounds like a damn fine fruitcake. I should try it. My mom adores fruitcake.

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I've made that recipe the last two years running, and am planning to make it again this year. Got special mini-loaf pans and everything.

SO TASTY!

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Thank you for the endorsement! I needed it, especially since mine took an extra half-hour to cook (my oven is patchy, but I was getting scared). Any mold problems?

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Nope, not in the slightest. Kept it in the naturally refrigerated mid-porch area.

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That sounds absolutely delicious. And I really don't like fruitcake, but probably because I've only had the gross candied fruit kind.

Battle Honey was a great episode. Elizabeth's blue cheese ice cream sounded absolutely revolting to me, though. Cat Cora is adorable and so tiny! She looked like a kid next to the Chairman and Faulkner.

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I don't know; all flavours are less pungent in a frozen suspension, and with the right honey, it could have worked -- sort of like a more assertive, woodsy cream cheese and honey on your toast.

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