Planning and Timetabling

Well it's only 110 days until Christmas...(sorry)
But well over half that time is required to perfect and finish........................

CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE

Earlier this week, there was a 25% off sale at the baking supply store. Even with that discount the cost of the candied fruit, cherries, peel, pineapple, ginger and nuts came to over $50. (Hubby paid for the Rum.)

As these take about 4 hours to cook, I was waiting for a break in the heat to turn on the oven. I ran out last year so I doubled the recipe, but that meant I had to enlist hubby to do the final stirring of the 10 lbs or so of cake and fruit batter.

But they're cooked. After letting them finish cooling I'll triple wrap them in plastic wrap, douse them in Rum and bury them in cookie tins in the coolest part of the house until at least .....Thanksgiving?

(That's what the small loaf is for....... taste testing!)

(ALMOST finished the quilt............Maybe this weekend will see it ready for binding.)