
17+ Fruit Cake History Pictures
17+ Fruit Cake History
Pictures. Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. People bring fruitcake as gifts, they make jokes about it, and sometimes they even eat it!
When folk were fasting during lent.
The name simnel probably comes from the ancient roman word simila, meaning fine flour. The ancient egyptians made fruitcake for their departed loved ones to carry with them to the afterlife. Cake history is all around us! Fruitcakes are holiday and wedding cakes which have a very heavy fruit content.