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Originally posted by Banner Lady:

I detest Christmas cake, which is probably why I can be so cavalier about making these, but as TP loves any kind of fruit cake, he will be my guinea pig. If they work even moderately well, they will be my effort for a charity bake sale. As I am running the bake sale, I feel I have to contribute.

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
"Gave us", as in, people in the UK actually eat prairie oysters? I have only heard the thnigs referenced as a joke or a dare, around here.

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'Lamb's fry' certainly used to - and may still - be sold in butchers particularly in the north of England.

And the cook in an 18th C country house would expect to send up not only joints but whole head, tongue, udder, feet, cheeks, ears, 'stones', sweetbreads, tripe, brains and eyeballs.

Nowadays, of course, we just call them burgers.

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Originally posted by mr cheesy:
Ah hahaha. I just love the idea that USAmericans shudder at British food.

I wave my pork-scratchings at you, cliffdweller.

OOoooooo scary.

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The things you Brits eat just make me shudder.

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This from a native of the nation that gave the world Twinkies, Grits, Cheese Wizz, Velveeta, the jello salad, corn dogs - the list in endless.

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L'o -- I agree with most of your list, but as a 'son of the south' I must protest your inclusion of grits. Properly prepared (with cheese & backed) they are truly something to 'make glad the heart of man.' (And woman, too, of course!) JMHO, naturally.

Plus I ate Jell-o most days of my growing-up, and apparently suffered no ill effects. The red kind got peaches and the green kind got pears (both canned, of course) included if it was to be taken to a church supper. (But MY mother never did it that way!)

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Originally posted by L'organist:
Don't agree with putting chocolate into Christmas pudding, but have taken to substituting grated beetroot and grated carrot for some of the dried fruit because the many diabetics in the family were having problems.

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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
*moans orgasmically*

We had a truly fantastic fruit cake today - made for last Christmas - full of great lumps of candied fruit, black as the inside of Satan's posing pouch, and solid enough to build walls from. Moister than a new bride, and richly fed with brandy like the bride's father.

It was amazing! It also seems to have inspired my tongue to run away with itself, must be the brandy.

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Originally posted by Ariel:
... then there was BSE, after which brains and T-bone steaks were totally off the menu ...

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Not totally; there was a butcher up the road from us in Belfast who carried on selling the most magnificent T-bone steaks all the way through the "crisis".

And I do mean "magnificent" - they overlapped the edges of a dinner-plate, and were utterly delicious.

I think I'll pass on the brains though ...

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Originally posted by Penny S:
... That's Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus in the manger.... there can't be any theological objection to eating the baby, but Mary and Joseph? It just doesn't feel right.

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Originally posted by mr cheesy:
I'm agin putting chocolate into things it shouldn't be in.

But definitely for using "agin" as often as possible in conversation for the rest of the day.

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Originally posted by Firenze:

They are also agin the haggis - but not alone in that. I remember hearing a former diplomat recount how she was trying to buy the ingredients in a butcher's in Geneva: 'You do sell those parts, don't you?' 'Yes madam, but not for humans.'

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
I like liver, kidneys and sweetbreads, but brains are vile. Without prejudgement that one, I was fed them in a French bistro as a child, didn't know the French, had never seen them before and hated them on first taste.

My local butcher got used to me buying odd things to cut up while my daughter was taking GCSE biology. We did go on to eat the kidneys.

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Originally posted by Gee D:
We were thinking of making a batch using some mini-muffin silicone trays we have, a dozen to a tray. From the quantities in the recipe, I'd say that the 3 trays would be enough. We weren't going to ice them. Some flaked almonds as you say would be good. What temperature oven did you use and for how long did you cook them please?

You said mixed fruit - I assume that means a packet of mixed fruit and peel from the health food shop?

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A friend was very unimpressed when his 'slice' of carrot cake at a local café was transformed into one of those candle shapes, he complained that the surface area for the icing was severely reduced.

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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
Oh, and any unwanted/leftover or surplus to requirements Christmas cake will be crumbled, mixed with melted chocolate and made into Christmas balls during the Christmas to New Year period.

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Sorry, does not compute - how can Christmas cake be 'left over'? I know you're in another hemisphere, but that sounds like an alternate universe!

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