fruitcake
Origin of fruitcake
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How to use fruitcake in a sentence
fruitcake is one of very few desserts that inspires a near universal derision.
Last year, I stored my tightly wrapped fruitcakes in my basement, tucked inside a securely sealed plastic storage container that I had used for moving.
As Claire Saffitz reminds you in her Dessert Person recipe, making a fruitcake is not a process that you decide to take on in the middle of December — it’s a process that you start right about now.
The New York Times’ Cooking’s recipe for fruitcake is called “Good fruitcake,” which one could only take to mean that most fruitcakes are bad.
fruitcake quickly acclimated to its American home, and even plays a supporting role in American literature.
One Cake to Rule Them All: How Stollen Stole Our Hearts | Molly Hannon | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Instead, think dried fruits, nuts, and spices—a holiday fruitcake you might actually want to eat.
Menu for a Moveable Feast: 10 Famous Authors and Their Favorite Foods & Recipes | Nicole Villeneuve | October 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd they eating crumbs of the cottage fruitcake, jawing the whole blooming time and sighing.
Ulysses | James JoyceHarry, who had been stuffing fruitcake on the sofa—sweets were his weakness—rose suddenly and came over to the group.
Virginia | Ellen GlasgowIm going to make a natural fruitcake, this week, for our little girls birthday.
The Natural Cure of Consumption, Constipation, Bright's Disease, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, | Charles Edward PageThe fruitcake was duly packed, transported, and eaten—we are bound to say without ill effect.
Julia Ward Howe | Laura E. RichardsI had a whole fruitcake taken bodaciously from me last year.
At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins | Nell Speed
British Dictionary definitions for fruitcake
/ (ˈfruːtˌkeɪk) /
a rich cake containing mixed dried fruit, lemon peel, nuts, etc
slang, mainly British a person considered to be eccentric or insane
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Other Idioms and Phrases with fruitcake
see nutty as a fruitcake.
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