This submission comes all the way from State College, Pennsylvania, where our dear friends Chris and Chris reside. Apparently today is the disco submission day, and so I present to you another fabulous post. I gave Chris and Chris a tough challenge--they had to recreate a fruitcake that was originally made with a Betty Crocker date bar mix that no longer exists [the horror!] so they improvised...with rum, lots and lots of rum.
Chris tells us: "When you consider how very much we have to do to be out of here by Thursday (including replacing a floor that got damaged in a recent roof leak) it's really absurd that we've put so much time into this. No, it's what has kept us sane. Or at least calm. Another bonus: the fruit bread (with added rum) is actually very good. OK, true confessions, we also added molasses and spices. In fact Betty Crocker would not recognize it all. As I said, delicious." Chris also had a problem selecting just ONE staging, so I present to you their disco progression. And, like my sister's submission, Chris relates that "All fall into the stuff we had in our closet category."
#1 is classy. Just like mom woulda done it (the candle sticks are from an antique store in Taos, the candles -- tiny tapers of a size not made since the 1970s are from my mom's house.
#2 is to show the delicious texture -- smell the rum.
#3 is our disco version... featuring that star of the 1970s, Disco Ken.
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Thank you gentlemen--the posts just keep getting better.
Merriest of Christmases, and lay off the rum!
Love, Lib and Steve
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