Over 100-Year-Old Antarctic Fruitcake 🍰

Antarctica Fruitcake Is Over 100 Years Old, and ‘Almost’ Edible<br />unexpected places." There is documentation showing<br />that Scott took this brand of cake with him on his explorations, said the trust, a nonprofit organization that is in the business of "inspiring explorers." Lizzie Meek, program manager for artifacts at the trust, said in a statement that the cake was surprisingly well preserved. that biscuits were exported all over the world and their tins have turned up in the most<br />The cake, dating to the Cape Adare-based Northern Party of Scott’s Terra Nova expedition (1910-13), was found in Antarctica’s oldest<br />building, which was constructed by a Norwegian explorer’s team in 1899 and used by Scott’s team in 1911, the trust said.<br />In one of the most hostile regions known to humankind, conservationists unearthed an ice-covered fruitcake they believe once<br />belonged to the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust said this past week.<br />Living and working in Antarctica tends to lead to a craving for high-fat, high-sugar food,<br />and fruitcake fits the bill nicely, not to mention going very well with a cup of tea." The team finished part of the conservation project in July, the trust said.<br />"There is no doubt the extreme cold in Antarctica has assisted its preservation." The cake was among about 1,500 artifacts<br />collected from two huts by a team of conservationists that had been working at the site since May 2016.<br />The next phase will be conservation work on the buildings at Cape Adare, the first in Antarctica<br />and the only examples left of humanity’s first building on any continent, the trust says.