Hello everyone — + a cake recipe request!

Hello everyone,

This is Liz Thomas — the new board wouldn’t let me in with my old profile for some reason.

I need to apologise for being away so long, I do lurk occasionally but I just don’t know where the time goes these days.  I just seem to be dashing back and forth between the office to work and the house to cook with nothing very much in between!

Anyway, hoping everyone is well and enjoying life.

G and I were talking today about what we are going to do for Christmas — which will be here this year — and what we are going to do.  No plans as yet but decided we should start cooking preparations so we do have something festive to look forward to.

A number of years ago (2003 to be precise) someone (I’m sorry I cannot remember who) posted a recipe for a scrumptious fruit cake by the actress Joan Hackett and G has expressed a desire for it for this Christmas.  Problem — cannot find it anywhere.  Tried the old archives and no joy.

Does anyone have this?  If I remember rightly it was a boiled cake and was soaked in apricot jam and brandy after cooking and had all sorts of fruits in it.

We took it to Thailand to share with friends for Christmas but only ate half of it.  The other half became a victim of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and ended up covered in sand on the floor of our beach bungalow!

If anyone has this recipe I’d be really grateful.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone — hope you all have a wonderful celebration.  I shall really try to check in more regularly in future.

Cheers!

Liz