Old Cavendish Products

Spring Peepers

AML — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:19:03 +0000

LISTENING TO OUR PEEPS
After a winter of serious fruitcake eating, Vermonters anticipate the first tastes of spring: fiddleheads, tart rhubarb and wild greens are among the flavors that announce the fresh new season. But it is the first sounds of spring that draw us into the natural world around us pulsing with life. When the sun goes down we hike into the woods to visit vernal pools, where a symphony rewards those willing to make the nighttime trek. First up are the wood frogs (Rana sylvatica), quacking in the shallow waters, complemented by the high pitched chorus of tiny peepers (Pseudacris crucifer), and the slow trilling of tree frogs. It is the bell-like song of the peepers that most locals associate with the the true arrival of spring. Their mating call sends a hopeful message through the cool night as they sing for their lives. If we thought they were singing for their supper we would offer them some of our succulent fruitcake. To hear peepers without trekking into the woods visit http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/frogs/springpeeperinfo.html.

high tea

AML — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:48:51 +0000

Exactly what does the old expression nutty as a fruitcake mean? In 1935, when southern baking companies had access to plenty of inexpensive nuts, their nut-dense fruitcakes earned the description that became part of American vernacular. Later usage of the phrase implied that a person who was nutty as a fruitcake was a bit mad. Here at Old Cavendish Fruitcake we work hard to dispel the myth. While our all natural cakes are thickly laced with high quality cashews and walnuts, we have had no reports thus far of anyone who has gone a bit dotty by having a slice of Old Cavendish Fruitcake with a nice cup of tea.

Emergency Preparedness

AML — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:04:24 +0000

Those of us who live in the forested hills on the back roads of Vermont learn quickly that losing power is part of life here, whether it’s from downed power lines in an ice storm or the fury of Tropical Storm Irene. When the lights go out we either fire up the generators or make do with candlelight and kerosene lamps. And we keep those refrigerator and freezer doors shut tight! One food that is impervious to power outages is Old Cavendish Fruitcake. While our moist, nutty fruitcakes love being stored in the back of the frig, they stay fresh and delicious on the kitchen counter as the perfect emergency ration. And voila, dessert by candlelight!

Turkey and Fruitcake?

AML — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:01:05 +0000

What do Vermont Turkeys and Cavendish Fruitcake have in common? Besides being delicious? We’ve all heard about local food and slow food and good food as qualifiers for appealing meals. We took that literally and bought our turkey, hand raised by our friend Joe MacDonald in Mt. Holly, Vermont. He let his birds grow a wee bit longer than last year so we got a Huge and Hugely Delicious Bird. It was moist and full of flavor that only a healthy bird can provide. Our fruitcakes also take a long time to develop flavor as they soak up the brandy and we use only unsulphured fruits and nuts and of course, Vermont Honey to sweeten. Hand made just for you to grace your table and please your guests. Remember: Fruitcake; you don’t have to be one to eat one.

Jungle MonkeyChew granola bar 6 pack

AML — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:28:24 +0000

Why have only one of these coconut and ginger filled chewy granola bars when you can have six?

Baby Cakes 4 oz fruitcake 3 pack

AML — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:59:11 +0000

Same great fruitcake in a smaller size and 3 of them to boot in a gift box. Looking for a hostess gift? Or a fruitcake snack for your outing? How about a tiny fruitcake matched to your great aunt’s smaller appetite? Create a new filler for the toe of the Christmas stocking by adding our new 4 ounce size of fruitcake!

Ingredients: unsulphured apricots, honey, eggs, raisins, prunes, cashews, walnuts, dates, butter, flour, orange juice, orange liqueur, brandy, cream, lemon juice, spices, baking powder.

Gluten Free Fruitcake

AML — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:48:33 +0000

New recipe for gluten free fruitcakes guaranteed to satisfy.

16 ounces of whole fruits and nuts, sweetened with Vermont honey and drenched in fine liqueurs.

“I just received my gluten-free fruitcake and it is WONDERFUL!!!!

I found out two years ago I had Celiac. I truly missed Old Cavendish Fruitcakes and I was so happy to see you make a gluten-free Fruitcake. I can’t even tell I’m eating gluten-free and that is more of a compliment than you know, if you haven’t tried gluten-free baked goods.

Thank you so much. You made my day, week, month, definitely the holiday season. You”ll be receiving more orders from me in the future.”

N.S. Arlington, Virginia

Jungle MonkeyChew Granola Bar 30 pack

AML — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:31:56 +0000

30 of your favorite toasted coconut ginger granola bars

Jungle MonkeyChew Granola Bar

AML — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:16:43 +0000

Our new coconut, ginger, and banana flavored granola bar and you won’t miss the chocolate.

Cavendish Canyon

AML — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:33:02 +0000

Cavendish is known as the home of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Cavendish Gorge, and the most famous skull in neurology (Phineas Gage) But Cavendish Canyon? When Tropical Storm Irene raged through Vermont on August 28, Cavendish lost the eastern end of scenic Route 131 that winds along the beautiful Black River. Always a favorite route for bikers, leaf peepers and fly fishing fanatics, that section along the river was transformed into a ragged crater 500 feet long, 60 feet deep and 125 feet wide, filled with raging floodwaters. It quickly became the center of a huge Nation Guard effort to repair the hole that destroyed a main traffic corridor. We donated MonkeyChew Granola Bars to the town office as our way to say thank you to them for the help Cavendish received in restoring services to town residents. According to Town Clerk Diane MacNamara, the many National Guradsmen, FEMA officials and local big-equipment operators who stopped by the town office for consultation chose the mOnkeyCHew Bar as their sustianing snack. The Cavendish Canyon will require 1.2 million cubic yard of fill in order to restore Route 131 as a scenic higheway, and there is still much work to be done. But the thousands of hours put in by the massive military effort and local contractors who logged in 100-hour work weeks told us that we were not alone in Irene’s aftermath. And we suspected that keeping all those workers fueled by MonkeyChew Granola Bars was one way to assure that the heavy equipement necessary to get the job done would be kept running at full tilt!