Christmas fruit cake is derived from the famous English Christmas or plum pudding.
The
recipe was much simpler with fewer ingredients although it included large
quantities of candied fruit, raisins, dates and nuts and is generally prepared
long in advance of Christmas and is liberally laced with Brandy.
Like
plum pudding it would originally have been flaming when served but in time this
changed and soon the cakes were being decorated with marzipan and icing
instead.
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