141-Year-Old Fruitcake Is a Michigan Family's Heirloom (cake, homemade, refrigerator)
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A Michigan family has been passing down a 141-year-old homemade fruitcake as a family heirloom.
Some families pass down jewelry, watches or even recipes. But a Michigan family has its own heirloom: a 141-year-old fruitcake.
“It’s a great thing,” said Julie Ruttinger, the great great granddaughter of Fidelia Ford, who baked the cake in 1878. “It was tradition. It’s a legacy.”
This made me laugh. Every year when I was a kid we had a great-aunt's Christmas gift of an unpleasant fruitcake in the back of the refrigerator until Christmas came close. Then Mom would toss it out and we'd wait for the fresh version.
This story from MN hasn't gone on for over a hundred years but is certainly an amusing tradition:
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