10 Ingredients and more in a Christmas fruitcake as told by Truman Capote

In Truman Capote's short story Buddy makes fruitcakes with his cousin and best friend. He likes the buying part best and lists the ingredients.

1. Cherries
2. and citron
3. ginger
4. and vanilla
5. and canned Hawaiian pine-apple
6. rinds
7. and raisins
8. and walnuts*
9. and whiskey
10. and oh, so much flour, butter, so many eggs, spices, flavourings: why, we'll need a pony to pull the buggy home.

*This looks like a slip as they spend time hunting for pecans earlier on.

10 Things Buddy's cousin did according to him (& Truman Capote)

In the Truman Capote short story "A Christmas memory" Buddy says of his older cousin and friend
"Here are a few things she has done, does do:

1. killed with a hoe the biggest rattlesnake ever seen in this county (sixteen rattles),
2. dip snuff (secretly),
3. tame hummingbirds (just try it) till they balance on her finger,
4. tell ghost stories (we both believe in ghosts) so tingling they chill you in July,
5. talk to herself,
6. take walks in the rain,
7. grow the prettiest japonicas in town,
8. know the recipe for every sort of old time Indian cure, including a magical wart remover." We know too
9. she always spends thirteenths in bed and
10. puts whisky in her cakes

10 Things Buddy's cousin did not do according to him (& Truman Capote)

1. In addition to never having seen a movie,
2. she has never: eaten in a restaurant,
3. travelled more than five miles from home,
4. received or sent a telegram,
5. read anything except funny papers and the Bible,
6. worn cosmetics,
7. cursed,
8. wished someone harm,
9. told a lie on purpose,
10. let a hungry dog go hungry.