I hope the fruit wasn’t soaked in booze like my gram used to do,(or maybe that’s the secret) via Lucianne:
Claxton fruitcakes have now contributed to world peace, or at least they’ve made Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Bramhall of Spartanburg a popular American in Afghanistan.
SNIP (HEY, HOW DO I GET THE PRETTY CORALLY COLOR?
The US commander shared his "Southern delicacy" during teatime with an Afghan general, who devoured it and demanded to know which "secret" bakery in Kabul baked the cakes, because his people had never had such a delicacy. ... Faith called Sandy Sanders, a longtime Civitan, and asked for 5kg of cakes. Then Sanders called to say he had been to the warehouse and could send at least 10kg. "Later, he called and said, `What about 25kg?’" He called again and upped it to 50kg. In the end, Sanders and the Civitans mailed 70kg of fruitcake -- or six cases -- to Bramhall in Afghanistan. |