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Fruitcake

"So when you write about this—and I know you will—be sure to tell everyone how saintly I've been," Oz says, looking back over his shoulder. He's holding a mixing bowl full of partially assembled fruitcake batter and scraping it into a larger bowl to which we'll add more ingredients. I've just pointed out that he should hold the mixing bowl by its handy handle. Quite reasonably on my part as he'd looked about to simply hug the bowl against his chest which would surely end up decorated with a big stripe of brown sugar, butter, egg, and bourbon.

In fact, the fruitcake prep was far less of an ordeal than it's ever been before, thanks to experience and good division of labor. In two weeks (it only needs two weeks to cure, not four), we'll know how it turned out. At which point I guess I'll post the recipe.