Aunt Olga’s Fruit Cake

A substantial fruitcake packed with raisins, dates, figs, citron and nuts, with an intriguing old-fashioned addition of a “small glass of jelly.”

A substantial fruitcake packed with raisins, dates, figs, citron and nuts, with an intriguing old-fashioned addition of a “small glass of jelly.”

A cold Norwegian fruit soup filled with apricots, raisins, prunes, and tapioca, preserved here as the closest version I’ve found to the Sot Suppe my grandfather made.