Scottish FruitCake

[Carol]

Now that Christmas is over for another year, I feel I can share this old favorite recipe with all my Cameron Cousins! I make it several times a year! LOL! Enjoy!

SCOTTISH FRUITCAKE RECIPE.

You'll need the following:

1 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
4 large brown eggs
2 cups of dried fruit
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
1 cup of nuts
1 bottle of whiskey.

Sample the whiskey to check for quality.


Take a large bowl. Check the whiskey again. To be sure it's the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer, beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar and beat again.

Make sure the whiskey is still okay. Cry another tup. Turn off the mixer. Beat two leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Mix on the tuner. If the fired druit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it loose with a drewscriver.

Sample the whiskey to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who cares? Check the whiskey. Now sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Spoon. Of sugar or something. Whatever you can find.

Grease the oven. Turn the cake tin to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Throw the bowl out of the window. Check the whiskey again and go to bed. Who the hec likes fruitcake anyway??

[RHCameron]

Carol, I think you need to back off the fruit cake a bit there this year, seems your spelling is a bit off lol.

[Carol]

Hi, and thanks for the friendly advice! Non-the-less, I doubt I'll be backing off the fruitcake baking sessions any year soon....You are not the first to suggest this course of action! Can't tell whether it is the Scot or the German in me that finds the "recipe" so tempting! LOL! and keep in touch...Carol

[FoundlingOfDollar]

A brief story regarding Scotch,

My family was visiting Edinburgh for New Years where we went to a tiny, local restaraunt run and staffed exclusively by an older gentleman and his wife. The restaraunt was wonderful. At the end of the meal we asked for a few glasses of the house single malt. My brother asked for a sip (he was 14 at the time and had never had anything to drink) so we gave him a sip, he barely took any and then sputtered a bit.

We were returning to our Bed and Breakfast (Dunedin House, I reccomend it) and my brother, not realizing that the cab had turned around before dropping us off, began to walk up to the wrong house. My dad corrected his error then returned to paying the cab driver, telling him "it looks like my son has had too much scotch." The cab driver returned (in one of the thickest accents we ehard on the entire trip), "Ach laddie, ya can not have too mutch scotch, ye'll fall down afore ye've had too much!"

Other than travelling to Dollar and seeing the origin of my family name, this was quite possibly the highlight (and most quoteable part) of our trip.

[Nicole (hammyski)]

That is freakin hilarious!!! Love it, just might have to follow in that attempt.. LOL

[cameroning]

Scottish Fruitcakes? I hadn't realized that this was a Campbell thread. LOL