Susan A. Kitchens on Spoutible

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#DailyPictureTheme This is 1 of those times I'm so glad I did a thing—In Dec 2016, when Mama's oven was on the blink, I invited her to come bake fruitcake and teach me how it's done.
So glad I took photos: Then, bc of process #Plenty of dried fruit. Now, bc of Mama 🥰 who no longer walks the earth.

A gray-haired woman wearing a cooking apron examines the contents of a dutch oven, filled with glistening raisins, currants, dates, and other dried fruit soaked in rum.

02:09 PM - Sep 19, 2023

Susan A. Kitchens

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2/5

I think I'll make a thread of it since there are other photos that fit the #DailyPictureTheme in this baking session series.

To bake a big ole batch of fruitcake, you need to have #plenty of loaf pans. Here, drying in the dish drainer after being washed, either before or after the bake.

Dish drainer contains a bunch of aluminum loaf pans, in a jumble, drying off.

11:10 PM - Sep 19, 2023

Susan A. Kitchens

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3/5

Adding #plenty of nuts to the fruit mixture. There is added rum or brandy, too, you can see a bit of liquid on the bottom of this big pan. (and now I want to find the directions to see what the significance of it was)

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#FruitCake

A large metal dutch oven has nuts added to the fruit mixture. There is a bit of liquid at the bottom of the pan. It's liquor liquid. Rum. Maybe Brandy.

11:14 PM - Sep 19, 2023

Susan A. Kitchens

@susan

4/5

#Plenty of loaves of fruitcake in a 250° F oven, with a big hot water bath there to keep the whole environment nice and moist. Looking at this photo, I remember my mother say that no pan should touch any other pan. So there's that.

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Viewing inside the oven, with two racks and 5 loaf pans on the top rack, two loaf pans on the bottom rack, and a large pan with water. No pan is touching another pan.

11:18 PM - Sep 19, 2023

Susan A. Kitchens

@susan

5/5

#Plenty of #fruitcake .
A view of the fruitcake loaves cooling on cooling racks.
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Trying to remember how & why we did the nut-topped one. It might have been to mark "do not soak this loaf with brandy bc loaf is destined for sober family member."

from above, seven loaves of fruitcake on wire racks, cooling. Some are still in the pan, some are out of the pan. One loaf has walnuts pressed into the top of the loaf.

11:25 PM - Sep 19, 2023

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