Christmas cakes

[jean2579]

My DIL has agreed that I can make the Chrissy cake this year for family dinner.
How soon should I start, and how long does it need to stand. There will be sherry or brandy in it.

[imastawka]

Yep.  It's Chrissy Eve for Stawka's house too.

Adopted that practice when I married 43 year Christmas Day.

No racing from one to the other on Christmas Day.

2 Days of presents, works well.

Twin Grandaughters' birthday on Boxing Day - they get 3 days of presents!

[imastawka]

Strange little gremlins have removed a whole sentence and a half from my post!!

It should read -

....when I married 43 years ago.  Christmas Eve works out well for

the Aussies in the family too.  No racing from one house to the other.

(and we have rollmops too)

[wilk1149]

Oh no, not rollmops. I was reminiscing with my sister a couple of years ago and was giving her a hard time about rollmops and she swore until she was blue in the face that she had never eaten them let alone liked them. Then a couple of days later she rang me and said that she had just bought a jar and had ate the lot. Then said maybe she kinda remembers eating them

[green.fields]

I come from a dutch family as well but you can keep your rollmops, yuk.

Love christmas cakes and fruit cakes, why is it the younger ones don't like it. I used to go to a lot of trouble making them and fruit mince pies but I don't anymore, hubby and I left to eat it.

[wilk1149]

I'd kill to have some Olie Bollens, haven't had any since my grandmother passed away

[green.fields]

Oh yes, I wouldn't mind some of them either.

[imastawka]

Thanks, kas, they look easy-peasy.    Gunna give it a go

[wilk1149]

I'm a diabetic so I don't cook things I shouldn't be eating otherwise i'd eat too many