Fruit Cake

Fruit cake reveals the Anglophile tendencies of the Peranakans. It was customary for many families to serve it during Chinese New Year. It is perhaps one of those quintessential British legacies shared by Britain’s many colonies. I have a friend from Kerala, India, who insists that her mother soaks her candied fruit in brandy for many weeks. My mother would have agreed. The English soaked their fruits to preserve them on the long sea voyages to their territories. In the Caribbean, the fruit