Thread: Nostalgia

Originally Posted by Nikos

I am like you about nuts in foods. I just don't like nuts at all. However fruit cake seems to have a strange taste that I have never liked The fruit is a candied. Just not my kind of fruit.

Weird isn't it? I wouldn't eat nuts as a kid but then ate them for many years. If I eat them now, it is just as a roasted snack and then not often.

Originally Posted by Nikos

... However fruit cake seems to have a strange taste that I have never liked The fruit is candied. Just not my kind of fruit.

Yeah, while I like nuts in cake, like Carrot Cake, Walnut Cake, Butter Pecan Cake, etc. I hate Fruit Cake - YUCK!

Originally Posted by curly sue

When I was a kid, the adult ladies in my family ate fruitcake. They made a warm sauce to serve over it they called hard sauce. It was sort of a sweet and sour sauce.

I remember a warm rum sauce they use to put on it.

The Church Ladies down here who make them, put Bourbon in them - Of course, the "alcohol" burns off during the baking.

Anyone remember this? I remember my Dad would always drink hot coffee from his saucer. Coffee was too hot and this would cool it down. Here is an interesting article about it: Old Time Practice: Drinking Coffee from Saucers | Appalachian Magazine

I first heard of drinking from a saucer when I was a little girl. I've also seen it on tv.

The link for this story looks like an interesting site!

Know what this is?

A contraption for milking cows?

Originally Posted by Nikos

Looks like the way some cologne came back in the day.