The Medium Life

I have never made a Christmas cake before for the simple reason that I will eat it all. I love Christmas cake with tons of thick icing, but I know me (the benefits of growing up/self awareness/facing the truth...) and I will not stop at one piece a day. However. I decided to make one. I decided that I would practice self-control and stick to one piece a day. (Snort/Dreaming) I chose a recipe from my Delia Smith Christmas cook book. The first thing was to soak the fruit mince mixture in 3 tablespoons of Brandy over night. I thought the next day the brandy must have evaporated as it seemed quite dry. You just cover the bowl with a tea towel overnight, but it is summer here, not winter like in Delia's England so I thought that explained it. Then, when I went on-line to see if the recipe was on-line, in case it was amazing and I could link to it, I discovered that on-line, on Delia's website, it said to soak the fruit mince in 100 mls of brandy. That is, around twice as m...