{"id":9300,"date":"2020-11-21T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T12:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=9300"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:32:40","slug":"a-growing-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/a-growing-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"A growing obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I may have told a fair few people already, but I have a growing obsession with fruit cake.  It all started when I went looking for my mother&#8217;s recipe for fruit cake and did not find anything that sounded right in all of the papers she left me.  So, I started trying out different recipes to see if I could get close to what I remember.  I made two different types of fruitcake last year.  I have made two different types already this year, and plan to make one more because, of course, I have found\/altered a recipe I now call &#8216;my&#8217; fruitcake.  Then I got an inspired idea to make a zine all about fruitcake: its history, its variations, etc.  It is a rabbit hole I may never dig myself out of.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I continue work on this zine that may end up becoming a full fledged book by volume of material alone, I thought I&#8217;d share this choice variation from the <em>Brer Rabbit&#8217;s Modern Recipes for the Modern Cook<\/em> (1940 Brer Rabbit Molasses).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"9301\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/a-growing-obsession\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2024,2209\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-367x400.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-550x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-550x600.jpg\" alt=\"page from the Brer Rabbit Modern Recipes for the Modern Cook showing a recipe for Farm Fruit Cake.\" class=\"wp-image-9301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-550x600.jpg 550w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-367x400.jpg 367w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-137x150.jpg 137w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-768x838.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-1407x1536.jpg 1407w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-1876x2048.jpg 1876w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes-132x144.jpg 132w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1940sbraerrabbitmodernrecipes.jpg 2024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is far from the only recipe I found relying on salt pork.  I also found a few mince meat recipes with salt pork.  One with ground beef.  I know the salt pork fat is standing in for shortening and is why the fruit cake can be made with so few eggs.  But&#8230;.I really don&#8217;t know what else to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may have told a fair few people already, but I have a growing obsession with fruit cake. It all started when I went looking for my mother&#8217;s recipe for fruit cake and did not find anything that sounded right in all of the papers she left me. So, I started trying out different recipes&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/a-growing-obsession\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A growing obsession<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[48,106],"class_list":["post-9300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holiday","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10436,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/12\/06\/fruitcake-murder-poison-theft\/","url_meta":{"origin":9300,"position":0},"title":"Fruitcake:  murder, poison, theft","author":"leems","date":"December 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I have an unfinished project tracking fruitcake recipes through newspaper clippings that calls to me. 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