In the 1980s, simple was for suckers, and decadence ruled supreme. There was a surge in dessert recipes with the name "mud" ...

On Dec. 2, 1949, the Friday morning edition of the Clarion Ledger, shortened to just "The Clarion-Ledger" by this point, ...

The holiday season has always been about food at our house. I love to order items from the many catalogs that arrive in the mail: grapefruit from Florida, pecans from Alabama, country ham from ...

Those people probably haven't tried the fruitcakes from Assumption Abbey. It's a community of Catholic priests and monks near ...

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Dec. 27 is recognized as National Fruitcake Day. Hormel Foods has created an updated fruitcake recipe to improve the dessert's reputation. The modern recipe includes ingredients like candied bacon and ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Ruth Gerringer won The N&O fruitcake contest in 1992 and 1995 with fruit and nuts. Home bakers preserved Gerringer’s recipe; Norma ...

Ruth Gerringer won The N&O fruitcake contest in 1992 and 1995 with fruit and nuts. Home bakers preserved Gerringer’s recipe; Norma Hoots Lynch bakes it annually for church. Recipe emphasizes over five ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. As holiday staples go, fruitcake generally ranks among the most groan-inducing — a yuletide tradition as cherished as mailing ...

The expression “nutty as a fruitcake” was coined in 1935 when Southern bakeries added an excess of nuts to their fruitcakes.