Or is someone in my building baking a fruitcake??? It seems highly unlikely. I am just about the only foreigner within nearly a mile in any direction. And ovens are just about unknown in Chinese kitchens. Baking is one of those arts they never seem to have developed in these parts. Must be just the brain tumour acting up again. |
Friday, September 04, 2009
Olfactory hallucination?
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People actually bake fruit cakes?
Sure it's not that Xinjiang fruit cake-like thing?
Smelled like baking to me.
Those Xinjiang confections are just assembled cold, aren't they? I don't think there's any baking involved. Well, maybe they pour some melted sugar over it, but that would be all. It doesn't have that fruitcake smell that was so teasing my nostrils yesterday.
It's probably possible to steam a fruit cake - but I have no idea what it would smell like...
Like Christmas pud, you mean? The smell is not as rich, or as burny, is it?
I don't know if fruit cake is subject to quite as much scorn and comedy elsewhere as it is in the US. But I'm one of the few people I know who actually likes it. At Christmas, The Missus -- not every year, but most -- bakes a fruit cake which I tend to finish all by myself. (Spread out over a couple-three weeks, of course.) (That is, the eating is spread out. Although there's probably some going on in the eater, as well.)
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