Not the kind you re-gift. Actual delicious food. Yum. The first record of fruitcake dates all the way back to Roman times, which was made with fruit and seeds. In the middle ages, people made their fruitcake a little sweeter with the help of honey and a little spicier with the help of different spices. Still, the history of fruitcake as we think of it today is closely related to the European nut harvests of the 1700s. After the harvest was complete, nuts from the harvest would be mixed together and made a fruitcake that was saved until the harvest the next year. That next year, the farmers ate the old fruitcake, hoping it would bring them another successful harvest. The fruitcake as Christmas tradition is a bit harder to establish, but we have discovered some intriguing facts. The Collin Street Bakery, south of Dallas, Texas began making their Deluxe Fruitcake in 1896, where it became something of a local tradition. Indeed, we are told that The Deluxe you order today is still baked true to the Old-World recipe brought to Corsicana, Texas from Wiesbaden, Germany in 1896 by master baker Gus Wiedmann. The bakery was thrust into the mail order business in 1913 when Mr. John Ringling's circus troupe, upon tasting the mouth-watering DeLuxe, asked to have the local Christmas Cakes sent to family and friends throughout Europe. And so, we believe, began an international Christmas gift tradition. With Demeter's Fruitcake you can enjoy those traditional Christmas scents all year around,