Kitchen

[fromthebronx]

On 12/4/2014 Poodlepet2 said: Hello Fromthebronx! DH went to Einstein and we moved from Morris Park to Rhinelander....I miss the Bronx-especially the Italian section with all of those wonderful cafes and restaurants....it's funny : I was just reminiscing about the good old days....there was this house that we could see from the back of our apt on Rhinelander: every December, they decorated big time-there was traffic all the way to Pelham Parkway lined up to see it! That's funny that you can't find Claxton in the NE: that's where I first became acquainted with it. I love it! Poodlepet2

Hi PP2! The Morris Park section is still one of the nicest places to live in the Bronx. I live in Locust Point very near the Throggs Neck Bridge, so we're not too far from there. I just moved here at the end of 2007.

[greamy]

Could it be Southern Supreme, Bear Creek, North Carolina.

[JGalt]

Collin Street Bakery has always been my family's choice. They are expensive now. I was in Corsicana, Texas, a couple weeks ago, and bought the small fruit cakes, four in a package, different varieties. There isn't much "cake" in a Collin Street fruitcake; they are mostly big pecans and fruit. I've never liked traditional cakey, spicey fruit cakes. The Collin Street are nothing like that.

[Kachina624]

On 12/4/2014 Nightowlz said:

I cannot believe nobody has posted Collin Street Bakery, Corsicana, Texas. The VERY VERY VERY BEST IMO. I won't eat any other kind. Can you saw YUM!!! I saw the Claxton on Q the other day. It looked like it had a lot of the candied fruit in it.

When I buy fruitcake, I always order from from Collins Street. Excellent fruitcake.

[birdQ13]

So very bummed out that the monks at the Berryville, Virginia abbey sent out a notice this year they were not selling their AWESOME fruitcakes. I am already in withdrawal and not sure if I will try a substitute. Maybe they will offer next year, I am serious, they are really good.

[KatieB]

southernsupreme.com Theirs is the best fruitcake I've ever had. It's full of pecans and only uses candied cherries and candied pineapple..

[sidsmom]

Fruit cake

[Barbarainnc]

another vote for Southern Supreme Fruitcake!!!

[Mominohio]

I haven't seen a fruit cake since I was a young child. And I remember it was quite "yucky" to a little girl. I hadn't thought about it , but since my 'adult taste buds" grew in quite a few years ago, I should try again. Funny how we think we don't like something we haven't tried in decades. It might just be wonderful on this side of life!

[rudy]

On 12/7/2014 birdQ13 said:

So very bummed out that the monks at the Berryville, Virginia abbey sent out a notice this year they were not selling their AWESOME fruitcakes. I am already in withdrawal and not sure if I will try a substitute. Maybe they will offer next year, I am serious, they are really good.

Try the Gethsemani monks in Trappist, Kentucky for their fruitcakes. monks dot org or gethsemanifarms dot org