Monday 14 August 2017

Antarctica keeps 106-year-old fruitcake "almost edible"

Fruit cake found at Cape Adare thought to be from Scott's Northern Party (1911)

You may think you've found some frighteningly old leftovers at the back of your fridge, but they're likely to pale in comparison to a fruitcake recently uncovered by the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust. Found in one of the huts used by Captain Robert Falcon Scott during his ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-13, the "almost edible" fruitcake lasted over a hundred years wrapped in paper and preserved in a tin-plated iron alloy tin

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