125-year-old fruitcake unearthed, fossilized
 

125-year-old fruitcake unearthed, fossilized

Associated Press
Dec. 22, 2003 08:41 AM


TECUMSEH, Mich. - A fruitcake that is an estimated 125 years old - an artifact of holiday cheer - is expected to make a tasty debut of sorts when it's introduced on national TV.

Morgan Ford, 83, of Tecumseh, is taking his great-grandmother Fidelia Bates' fruitcake to Burbank, Calif., to share a piece with Jay Leno on Tuesday's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

The cake rests in a glass bowl, covered by a glass top. A large raisin and what might be a clove are visible among the brown mass - Ford says it's fossilized - that emits a pleasant odor of spices.

Its baker died in Berkey, Ohio, in 1879 and the cake remained untouched for 85 years.

Not much is known about the origin of the cake; even the recipe is lost.

"I don't think my dad knew anything more about it than I do now," Ford said.

Ford intends to pass along the fruitcake to his son, James Ford, of Tecumseh.

"I guess I don't have anything else that's a family heirloom," James Ford said. "It's history. I think my dad gets a little more fun out of it than I do."

My Grandma gives me cake that taste like it 125 years old

Interesting if the bread grew ergot mold. Some strains of ergot produce a natural version of lysergic acide diethylamide aka LSD.
Would be hilarious seeing Leno eating some moldy bread and trippin on live TV.

I need a vacation . I was expecting a link to a recently discovered Gay mummy !

Here's the oldest fruitcake I know of:

http://www.revolutionsf.com/images/b...on/gandalf.jpg

Surely they're not eating a piece of that 125 year old petrified cake...there's no way.

LOL!!!!! How'd you know the mummy was gay? Bottle of Perrier and Liberache CDs?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh