I love fruitcake and have memories of my mother making them for the holidays back in the 1940's. After the cake was baked, she would moisten a clean kitchen towel with brandy and wrap the cake in the damp towel. The wrapped cake would then be placed in a tin with a tight fitting cover and this would then be carried up to be placed in the attic. Once a week or so, she would go up and check the cake to make sure (I think) that the towel was still moist. I am now in my 70's and still make fruitcake every year for the family. I now use a fruitcake recipe that KAF posted several years ago and it is even better than the original one I used to make.

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