My grandmother used to keep two big, gallon-size jars of brandied fruit "cooking" and would make these fantastic holiday cakes. Being oldest granddaugther, I was often assigned furniture polishing duty, and when I'd stop by that corner chest of drawers with the brandied fruit containers, I'd slip the lid off and take a big whiff and actually get a little high off the fumes.

Yeah, I admit it. I whiffed brandied fruit.

Merry Christmas everybody.

Roxy