Nuts, dates, candied cherries, but my mom's recipe came out like a loaf of banana bread, not a compressed brick. Wrap it in cheesecloth soaked in brandy. Take out the artificial stuff and it can be delicious.
As did my mother's ... we kids took them to our teachers for a Christmas gift ... they always looked weird when we presented them, and when we went back to school after Christmas break, the teachers always told us how good they were. I was in my mid twenties before I realized that "fruitcake" for everybody else was not an amazing thing 😉
Fruit cake is a big thing in the UK with quite a few varieties. There`s Dundee cake in Scotland ( usually large & round ) made with all kinds of fruit with whisky added to make it moist. In England it`s usually a slab, like the cake you guys are eating with brandy instead of whisky & to make it a little more palatable will have a layer of marzipan & icing on the top. These are heavy cakes & a little goes a long way otherwise you may be reaching for the Gaviscon. Hope you guys will be ok!
If you can ever find a Homemade Rum Fruitcake you will never get a store bought one again. A friends daughter makes them. Soaks them with rum for months. Amazing
My mom used to make them for everyone in the family. I can't remember how many weeks it took her to make them as she would go every so often to pour the rum. She also did bourbon or brandy ones for those who didn't like rum.
I came here to say the same thing. My wife's co-worker years ago would give them at Christmas, she applied the rum daily for months! The end result was fantastic. I've also had a bourbon version of this, not sure what bourbon was used but I doubt it was crap. In Canada, fruitcake is very common.
The Claxton Fruitcake was Baked in Claxton Georgia. It was made to keep fruits . It is world famous it is so good chilled and eaten with coffee or hot tea..
Put a large piece in a glass jar and cover with brandy. Let it stand for ten days, then try it. Trenton has the sophistication and taste buds of a hobo. I live in Georgia, I am not of fan of Claxton, but I do love fruit cake.
My mother made fruitcake every year, being of Irish/English heritage. You could probably fail a breathyler test from the either bourbon or rum content. I admit I never liked it. We also had the Clayton. She made with candied fruit and nuts.
Fruit cakes have been around since Roman times and was a way to use up the candied fruit they preserved with sugar. Real fruit cake is made with liquor or brandy and preserves the cake for years! A 106-year-old fruitcake discovered in 2017 by the Antarctic Heritage Trust was described as in "excellent condition" and "almost" edible.
Please treat yourself to Abbey Of Gethsemani Farms Bourbon Fruitcake. The Monks near Bardstown, KY. make a "heavenly" tasting fruitcake. Currently, they are using Jim Beam bourbon. They have been making it for many, many decades. They also make four types of bourbon fudge.
So Trenton was kind of right with the preservation note, it was meant to preserve fruits and nuts through the winter and also act like a (for lack of better words) mid-winter MRE when the stored food was running low, which is also why they were (and if you can find them are) soaked in Brandy or whiskey (funnily enough)
What happened to last Friday’s video? Hopefully celebrating Kurt’s birthday. Looking forward to the next SLB Tries as well. My daughter (11) LOVE’s watching SLB Tries!
Actually good, homemade fruitcake uses dried and preserved fruits. Not the neon crap. It was soaked in bourbon or brandy to preserve the cake. It's dense, but spiced with baking spices. It's delicious.
Oldest still edible fruitcake was made Christmas 1878.. Yes it's still being eaten on as of Christmas 2023. 'Nut meat' is the flesh inside the shell of a nut that you eat.. God I hate being old ..
@SLB Tries - fruitcake is a national tradition in my country, and our own bakeries make our own traditional type that is sweeter and dark brown. It is so commonplace here they literally sell slices of it at all gas stations, grocery stores, and take-out counters! It was a pleasure seeing you guys try it for the first time, and that you actually enjoyed it so much!
The fire department I was on we used to sell fruit cakes to raise money it was a hard sell most people didn’t eat them they used them for door stops. And that’s not a joke. I finally got us away from the fruit cake and started a pasta dinner with meatballs. The first dinner we raised more money with that dinner than all the years they sold the fruit cakes.
I myself don't care for fruitcake, but my mom had a recipe for "fruitcake" that used 'Jewel gummies' (don't think that's what their called, just can't think of it right now) that I can eat.
It's sad that you guys have no idea about fruit cake. How can you not know about the nutty goodness of fruitcake? It's candied fruit and nuts. Basically the base flavors of Bourbon. If you really want to kick it up a notch... soak some rum in it.
It is a Christmas cake... My grandparents made and sold Fruitcakes to raise their Christmas money... Thid was more than thirty years ago and I still find people who talk about their fruitcakes... We also find fruitcake cookies... For me Claxton is not a good fruitcake... I have never had a store bought fruitcake that was really good...
you had a typical fruitcake. my grandma made a stirred fruitcake. it looks and tastes different. more rich, integrated flavors, dark and sweet. not bready
Trenton whining about something not being refrigerated was definitely a surprise from someone who sniffs Brasso and eats other "funky" stuff....LoL😂Also, my Southern Mom makes an awesome fruitcake. I'd say better than that commercialized version you tried. T And hers is never refrigerated. Btw, the green thing is green cherry. You'll be fine Trenton, the egg is cooked. Nutmeat is the part of the nut you eat.
LOL! Kurt was seriously making me hungry, and I typically hate fruit cake. For Trenton, the green things are green dyed maraschino cherries, and nut meats are just the inside parts of a nut (the part you typically eat). 😀
We have fruit cake every year for Christmas! But we wrap the fruitcake in a wine soaked cloth to keep it moist. Also we made a warm wine sauce to drizzle over it. It is a great desert!!
Go Kurt.... Every fruitcake I've ever tried has been absolutely disgusting, but I know some people enjoy it. I know some are better than others, so this must have been a good one.... I'd give it a try!
Trenton should at least Google the item before blabbering incoherently. He’s showing how ignorant he is about something he’s totally ignorant about. Fruit cake doesn’t have raisins. I’ve been making fruitcake for 50 years.
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If Trenton ever has a daughter he must name her, Marge-A-Reen!
😂😂😂
Trenton is such a special child
Nuts, dates, candied cherries, but my mom's recipe came out like a loaf of banana bread, not a compressed brick. Wrap it in cheesecloth soaked in brandy. Take out the artificial stuff and it can be delicious.
That sounds heavenly
As did my mother's ... we kids took them to our teachers for a Christmas gift ... they always looked weird when we presented them, and when we went back to school after Christmas break, the teachers always told us how good they were. I was in my mid twenties before I realized that "fruitcake" for everybody else was not an amazing thing 😉
Exactly the same for us. The postman, the sanitation workers, everyone got a fruitcake. Nothing but rave reviews. @@DaveNorton-yi5ix
Collin Street Bakery out of Texas makes a great Fruitcake. Expensive but very good particularly if you like pecans. They will ship it to you.
I love seeing Kurt laugh! So contagious 😂
Fruit cake is a big thing in the UK with quite a few varieties. There`s Dundee cake in Scotland ( usually large & round ) made with all kinds of fruit with whisky added to make it moist. In England it`s usually a slab, like the cake you guys are eating with brandy instead of whisky & to make it a little more palatable will have a layer of marzipan & icing on the top. These are heavy cakes & a little goes a long way otherwise you may be reaching for the Gaviscon. Hope you guys will be ok!
I like that Trenton doesn’t like that it’s not chilled like the label says, yet he’ll store bourbon in the hot vehicle.
....touché.
I'm with Kurt - dried and candied fruit in breads, cakes, etc. are so good. For a serving option, soak the fruit cake in booze for a real treat.
Also, come back to it when it's chilled
Love Claxton Fruit cake. Sold in Publix stores here in Georgia
The green thing was likely a green marashino cherry.
Multiple uses...door stop..weapon..etc..
If you can ever find a Homemade Rum Fruitcake you will never get a store bought one again. A friends daughter makes them. Soaks them with rum for months. Amazing
My mom used to make them for everyone in the family. I can't remember how many weeks it took her to make them as she would go every so often to pour the rum. She also did bourbon or brandy ones for those who didn't like rum.
I came here to say the same thing. My wife's co-worker years ago would give them at Christmas, she applied the rum daily for months! The end result was fantastic. I've also had a bourbon version of this, not sure what bourbon was used but I doubt it was crap. In Canada, fruitcake is very common.
Fruit cake can also be served with a butterscotch sauce - which can have e bourbon as an ingredient.
The Claxton Fruitcake was Baked in Claxton Georgia. It was made to keep fruits . It is world famous it is so good chilled and eaten with coffee or hot tea..
Put a large piece in a glass jar and cover with brandy. Let it stand for ten days, then try it. Trenton has the sophistication and taste buds of a hobo. I live in Georgia, I am not of fan of Claxton, but I do love fruit cake.
Claxtons fruitcake is great value for the money. It's $4.99 at Food Lion in VA. It's probably not the greatest fruitcake ever but it's solid
The story is there is only one fruitcake and it keeps being passed on from everyone who has received it as a gift. I have also had the Collins.
Best fruitcake I ever had was from a bakery out of Texas, Mary of Puddin Hill.
As for Claxon fruitcake and mast others, best when soaked in bourbon.
Trenton: "It says nut meat, and there's no comma in between them" 😂
My mother made fruitcake every year, being of Irish/English heritage. You could probably fail a breathyler test from the either bourbon or rum content. I admit I never liked it. We also had the Clayton. She made with candied fruit and nuts.
Grandma’s Fruit Cake from Beatrice Bakery is the ONLY fruit cake. Booze forward!
Claxton 1910 , first batch, I hear they are doing a second batch in 2030 :)
Too funny! Trenton’s pronunciation of Margarine was hilarious 😂
Mer-jar-eeen…..nailed it
Fruit cakes have been around since Roman times and was a way to use up the candied fruit they preserved with sugar. Real fruit cake is made with liquor or brandy and preserves the cake for years! A 106-year-old fruitcake discovered in 2017 by the Antarctic Heritage Trust was described as in "excellent condition" and "almost" edible.
I'm starting to think that Kurt has no taste buds and will literally eat anything.
You should try collin street bakery or assumption abbey not that supermarket stuff.
Please treat yourself to Abbey Of Gethsemani Farms Bourbon Fruitcake. The Monks near Bardstown, KY. make a "heavenly" tasting fruitcake. Currently, they are using Jim Beam bourbon. They have been making it for many, many decades. They also make four types of bourbon fudge.
Try it with Bourbon. It tried it with Woodford Double Oaked and OF 1910. Delicious! I have 3 more logs in my fridge.
You have to research the hilarious video Johnny Carson did on Fruitcake featured on Tonight Show!
Macy's has a good fruitcake during the holidays
I have my grandmother's recipe for fruit cake. Absolutely delicious!!
one of the things i look forward to at christmas time.
Trenton is such a baby.
Next time.....a FRUIT CAKE BLIND!!!! Get 3 or 4 more brands and have a blind tasting. That's gold, Jerry, GOLD!
Best Pop Tart flavor taste off? Breakfast Cereal taste off?
Love fruitcake. Buy one every year at Christmas. Either Walmart or Target, don’t remember.
4 words: Collin Street Bakery Fruitcake. Absolutely the Pappy of Fruitcake. Available on Amazon
I agree with Trenton! SLB Tries needs its own background! 😃
So Trenton was kind of right with the preservation note, it was meant to preserve fruits and nuts through the winter and also act like a (for lack of better words) mid-winter MRE when the stored food was running low, which is also why they were (and if you can find them are) soaked in Brandy or whiskey (funnily enough)
What happened to last Friday’s video? Hopefully celebrating Kurt’s birthday. Looking forward to the next SLB Tries as well. My daughter (11) LOVE’s watching SLB Tries!
Actually good, homemade fruitcake uses dried and preserved fruits. Not the neon crap. It was soaked in bourbon or brandy to preserve the cake. It's dense, but spiced with baking spices. It's delicious.
Oldest still edible fruitcake was made Christmas 1878..
Yes it's still being eaten on as of Christmas 2023.
'Nut meat' is the flesh inside the shell of a nut that you eat..
God I hate being old ..
@SLB Tries - fruitcake is a national tradition in my country, and our own bakeries make our own traditional type that is sweeter and dark brown. It is so commonplace here they literally sell slices of it at all gas stations, grocery stores, and take-out counters! It was a pleasure seeing you guys try it for the first time, and that you actually enjoyed it so much!
The fire department I was on we used to sell fruit cakes to raise money it was a hard sell most people didn’t eat them they used them for door stops. And that’s not a joke. I finally got us away from the fruit cake and started a pasta dinner with meatballs. The first dinner we raised more money with that dinner than all the years they sold the fruit cakes.
Love the Claxton fruitcake. The green thing is a cherry..
Please try Surstromming fish. Traditional Swedish food
This guy actually said corn 🤣
A good fruit cake is pretty good. My grandma used to make them when I was a kid.
looking forward to the next one!
I myself don't care for fruitcake, but my mom had a recipe for "fruitcake" that used 'Jewel gummies' (don't think that's what their called, just can't think of it right now) that I can eat.
You should try it with bourbon. Original fruit cake uses bourbon in the recipe
Should have had a glass of Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream to enjoy with that lovely fruit cake. Mmmmm good.
Now, I want to order a fruitcake.
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Fruit cake is good stuff. Extremely high in calories. Great for cycling
Southern Supreme Holiday Fruit Cake 2 Lb in Gift Box. I’m not a fruitcake fan but this one is pretty tasty. I like the fruitcake blind idea!!
It's sad that you guys have no idea about fruit cake. How can you not know about the nutty goodness of fruitcake? It's candied fruit and nuts. Basically the base flavors of Bourbon. If you really want to kick it up a notch... soak some rum in it.
That was so funny!!! Loved watching Kurt dig in to that fruit cake. Hilarious 😂
you need to try a Traditional Figgy Pudding with Whiskey Carmel Sauce ❤❤
I love fruit cake, I get at least 2 every year. They are really good soaked in bourbon. Cheers 🍻
It is a Christmas cake... My grandparents made and sold Fruitcakes to raise their Christmas money... Thid was more than thirty years ago and I still find people who talk about their fruitcakes... We also find fruitcake cookies... For me Claxton is not a good fruitcake... I have never had a store bought fruitcake that was really good...
Trenton, fruitcake taste better with either butter or cream cheese spread on it.
you had a typical fruitcake. my grandma made a stirred fruitcake. it looks and tastes different. more rich, integrated flavors, dark and sweet. not bready
Fruit cake is one of my favorites
Nut meat is the part of the nut that is eaten. Fruit cake originated in the Roman Empire.
Claxton is the best. Next time I’ll just send you guys some. It’s only a half hour from me. It’s in between Savannah and Macon.
All I know is that I LOVE fruitcake, and I want one NOW!!!!!
We just ordered a 3 pack
Trenton whining about something not being refrigerated was definitely a surprise from someone who sniffs Brasso and eats other "funky" stuff....LoL😂Also, my Southern Mom makes an awesome fruitcake. I'd say better than that commercialized version you tried. T And hers is never refrigerated. Btw, the green thing is green cherry. You'll be fine Trenton, the egg is cooked. Nutmeat is the part of the nut you eat.
"Accidently threw at mom " LOLOL
WHOLE EGGS
LOL! Kurt was seriously making me hungry, and I typically hate fruit cake. For Trenton, the green things are green dyed maraschino cherries, and nut meats are just the inside parts of a nut (the part you typically eat). 😀
My vote would be to blind taste all the BuzzBalls. 🎉
Trent needs to get out and live life....he would starve if he had no choice.
And now I want to try fruitcake.
Why do I just want to hang out at the bar? I mean you got bourbon and fruit cake. What more do you need?
I knew Kurt was gonna love it… he’s got the love eyes every time he looks at it 😂😍
Marga-reen. Omg. Dying here 😂. Mom. …. Look alive. Oh lord.
We have fruit cake every year for Christmas! But we wrap the fruitcake in a wine soaked cloth to keep it moist. Also we made a warm wine sauce to drizzle over it. It is a great desert!!
Go Kurt.... Every fruitcake I've ever tried has been absolutely disgusting, but I know some people enjoy it. I know some are better than others, so this must have been a good one.... I'd give it a try!
Love fruitcake, now I need to try this
Wait.... Did Trenton think the fruitcake you guys were eating was actually that old?
Remember eating fruit cake but it soaked in Rum. It was really good.
That, there might be the key to liking it!
I LOVE the idea of bringing in foods and drinks to try that have been built up on SLB lore haha this is great!!
It's just a dense quick bread filled with candied fruit and nuts! Yum!
Collin street is the only fruitcake, that brick is the worst one…so not sure who led you to that terrible cake
Claxton is a town in Ga. That's where it's from. I get 3 or 4 of them every year. Love them. I live in Ga now but grew up in Indiana.
SLB goes axe throwing would be a good episode
Trenton’s palate continues to amaze me.
Try Limburger cheese. That is truly rough !!!
Is there a place I can buy it online? Been trying to find it but haven't been able to.
We alway season ours with bourbon
Ideas for a new Tries episode: Haggis, Hog Maw (a PA Dutch delicacy), Lutefisk (icelandic fermented shark).
I live 50 miles from Claxton...That is some good stuff right there!
Like father, like son…… Kurt a couple times when fruitcake wasn’t chilled “It’ll be fine!” That’s Trent’s line!!!! Hahaha😂
Good fruit cake is awesome…the rest is absolutely horrible.
Love the fire starter log comparison Just listen to Comedian Jim Gaffigan's take on fruit cake
Surprisingly, Costco sells a fantastic fruitcake. The Kirkland one.
Love it.
Trenton should at least Google the item before blabbering incoherently. He’s showing how ignorant he is about something he’s totally ignorant about. Fruit cake doesn’t have raisins. I’ve been making fruitcake for 50 years.
I don't claim to be an expert in any subject, just here to have fun with my family :)
Sorry guys but Collin Street from Texas is best!