Send me $24 and I'll send you a fruit cake receipt.

I don't "join" web sites, nor do I subscribe to magazines. Check your local library - lots of good information for free - as well as a Google away. I just Googled - fruit cake recipes - and got 7,060,000 hits. Seems like there should be a good recipe, possibly similar to your mom's, from that many.

I guess I'd like to think I could out cheapskate Cheapskate Monthly.

-Grainlady

I checked them out last month - they had a "Free July" where you got access for the month for free.

Nothing I saw there made me even WANT to join. There was nothing new... nothing you can't get anywhere else. And frankly, some of the posters were so needy...

JMHO! :)

"Free July" must have been when I stumbled on to them. And as far as the fruit cake thing....of course I googled fruit cake...I would have been a...errr...fruitcake, not to have. I was hoping that one of you wonderful folks had also come across it and saved it. It's not like a regular fruit cake that you would think of. Actually it only has fruit juice and brandy in it and has its beginnings like a big ol fermenting jar of starter. Kinda ends up like what you do with Amish Friendship bread. Except with a whole lot of sugar and a wallop of brandy in it...yup, I remember my mom drinking...I mean eating that cake.

I couldn't see spending the money on the site either. I was wondering if there were wonderful things going on behind the scenes that I was missing. I thougth that paying $24 to join a cheapskate community was kinda...ironic I guess. (Now if in secret you are a member of this website and don't want to admit it...feel free to let me know what you think..and I won't tell a sole...)

PJ

I found this wonderful site recently. If you search for a recipe, it will give you several of them.

I was looking for a good hot fudge recipe (the good thick kind like Dairy Queen has)and found the site I posted below has 280 recipes for it.

Maybe you can peruse the cake recipes, and find the one you are interested in.

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: 451 Fruitcake recipes

I signed up for thier free newsletter and I really enjoy getting thier tips on a daily basis. Great website.

"Great website."

Really? What features about the website did you find most useful?
I cannot for the life of me see why anyone pays to join that site....

Check your local library for magazines. I think there was one called "Penny pinchers gazette" full of money-saving techniques. One of the biggest money wasters, IMO, is on magazines,when publiclibraries have them avbailable for free,mine even lets you check out older issues and keep them up to four weeks. All for FREE!

Do tell me that I'm mistaken!

I get the impression that we have a bunch of cheapskates around here.

I don't know whether there may be a (semi-liquid) fruitcake recipe such as you desire in Tightwad Gazette, books I, II or III, which you may well find in your library ...

... but you'll find a whole load of other money-saving suggestions there. The books have been around for a while, but are still useful.

olr joyful

Want a recipe go to foodtv. You only give fruitcake to
people you dislike anyway.

PJ, HI... I have a really good, tired-and-true, Holiday Fruitcake recipe that is brushed with orange juice... this fruitcake will never be used to fill a pothole, used to pound nails, nor used as an anchor - You will thank me, I promise, when you eat it with pleasure, LOL Â if interested, let me know and I'll e-mail this recipe of mine off to you for FREE...

AuntCarol

Fruitcake that comes to my house is appreciated.

You need never fear the possibility of it being used as doorstop, to pound nails or even poison a dog that's suffering from arthritis so that life is no longer fun.

For those of you who don't like 'em, fine - choose your own poison.

But don't ridicule fruitcakes, please.

You'll hurt their feelings ...

... poor things.

Isn't it strange - 20% of the world is paying agencies to help them lose weight ...

... but 80% of the world can't afford to eat enough to stave off hunger.

What's the problem?

Money.

I wonder what our Heavenly Parent may have to say to us folks fortunate enough to enjoy a measure of affluence when, having drawn our last breath in this dimension of living, we knock at the heavenly gate seeking admittance?

I don't think that I'll be happy to hear it.

ole joyful

I usually read the columns online, but wouldn't subscribe to the pay site. I find about 1 in 4 of their columns interesting. Some are laughable. Today's was about a person who missed a card payment and was mad about the charges so they went to a "counselor" who told her to stop making all credit card payments for six months. Now of course she has $9,000.00 in charges and the interest rate has jumped to 32%, and minimum payments (minimum payments? what's that?) have gone from $30 to $250/month or something like that. Now she's mad at the world. I think it's funny.

But for the recipe help, yes there's a lot of good free sites, but also there's the cooking forum here on GW that is very helpful. Some may know of the one you're looking for and they'll give good suggestions on alternatives and suggestions on where to look.

Another thing to try is look for the recipe posted in other areas. If you remember the ingredients and use them as keywords it could help. You might find the recipe posted somewhere, perhaps it was in a column in a newspaper or something.

You might even email them and ask for the recipe. Worst thing would be they might say no or not respond. You might get lucky.

Hah! Got the recipe. They opened up an area one day where it was posted and I was able to cut and paste it into a Word document. If anyone is interested in it, just let me know. I guess I could cut and paste it into a message on here, but I don't know if that's allowed....

PJ

Glad you got the recipe, PJ. I've enjoyed Mary Hunt's column in the newspaper and have sent several of her money management articles to a friend. But I'm surprised at the fee for her website. I wouldn't dream of spending $24 to join.

I checked out the site and I thought some of the reader's tips were great. Looks like a lot of information that you can get without subscribing...

In the Bible ...

... Martha was the kitchen lady, the worker, while ...

... Mary was the talker.

In modern U.S. "lifestyle" - Martha's done pretty well for herself, being a talker.

As have quite a few others.

How come I can't get paid anything like that for shooting off my mouth?

Of course, some preachers have, especially some of the ones on TV - but I don't think that I want to follow their path.

And how about this famous football guy, that's to be paid $250 million - to play football for, something like 5 years, is it?

That's right - the one that's married to the Spicey girl.

Centre of their operations to be - wait for it - Hollywood.
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Aunt Carol,

of way back Sept. 2 post ... is it you , the recipe, or the fruitcake, that's " ... tired"? And we recognize, of course, that you're all true blue.

Just so we can get some of these niggling questions that pick at us, cleared up.

ole joyful