Countdown to Christmas ...24 - Old Fruit Cake Favourite Christmas cake is usually from a fruit cake recipe passed on from one generation to another in a family, ( in my case, my mother's recipe), but the oldest recipes are said to be much older - ancient, in fact. Fruit cake was probably first tasted in Ancient Egypt and Rome. The ancient Egyptians made fruit cake for their departed loved ones to carry with them to the afterlife. It was a dense cake with preserved fruit which was buried with pharaohs. Fruit cake was thought to be able to withstand a long journey and the richness of the fruit and nuts indicating the wealth of the consumer and the family's esteem for their deceased relative. From Fruitcake Facts In Ancient Rome, " raisins, nuts and pomegranate seeds were added to barley mash, making the fruitcake not only handy and lethal catapult ammunition, but also hearty compact foodstuff for the long campaigns waged by the conque...
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