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• Cooking One’s Goose

  
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  The traditional English Christmas goose didn’t really make it over here on the other side of the Atlantic, chiefly because the native (and meatier) turkey prevailed. Neither did the other traditional dish of the English Christmas  season — roasted boar — with its tusked furry head, mouth filled with an apple. ...
  2 days ago

• Mulled Wine, a Timeless Taste of the Divine?

  
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  Mulled Wine (Photo credt: ) “He has given us plenty of merriment, I am sure,” said Fred, “and it would be ungrateful not to drink his health. Here is a glass of mulled wine ready to our hand at the moment; and I say, ‘Uncle Scrooge’!” “Well! Uncle Scrooge!” they cried. “A Merry ...
  3 days ago

• Wassailing Through

  
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  Wassaile the trees, that they may beare You many a Plum and many a Peare: For more or lesse fruits they will bring, As you do give them Wassailing. A foot of snow presses against the front door, the presents glimmer under the Christmas tree, and Aunt Lillie’s sugar cookies lie temptingly in the old painted tin ...
  5 days ago

• Idylls of Cuisine, #42

  
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  [A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] Posted in Art, Christmas, Cooking, England, English Cooking Tagged: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Christmas, England, Wassail
  6 days ago

• Fruitcake, Fermentation by Another Name

  
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  We never eat fruitcake because it has rum, And one little slice puts a man on the bum. Oh, can you imagine the pitiful plight Of a man eating fruitcake until he gets tight? A man who eats fruitcake lives a terrible life. He`s mean to his children and beats on his wife. A man who eats fruitcake dies a terrible ...
  1 week ago

• Buttering Up

  
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  Mound of Butter, by Antoine Vollon, 1875/1885 Peppermint flavoring, almond extract, gooey candied fruit, thick dark molasses, perfumey cardamom … the list could go mouth-wateringly on and on. Christmas cooking and Christmas baking demand many ingredients not normally used in everyday cooking. And that’s what ...
  1 week ago

• Civil War Christmases

  
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  Christmas Eve, by Thomas Nast I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 100 and 50 guns and plenty of ammunition, also about 25,000 bales of cotton. Telegram from William Tecumseh Sherman to Abraham Lincoln, December 22, 1864 Many authors write about the austerity of American Christmas ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg

  
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  Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we Should feast and sing, and merry be; Keep open house, let fiddlers play, A fig for cold, sing care away; And may they who thereat repine, On brown bread and small beer dine. Virginia Almanack 1766 To paraphrase former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld: There’s the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christmas in Antebellum Virginia: Part I

  
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  Jamestown Smokehouse (Painting by Bill Barber) What is now the state of Virginia boasted the first permanent English settlement in North America. Despite its rocky beginnings in 1607, the settlement eventually flourished. The first Africans arrived in 1619 and the tobacco industry began in earnest. Along with the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Christmas Cheer, or, Fire Up the Reindeer

  
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  Photo credit: C. Bertelsen Black Friday marks the first “official” day of Christmas, er, shopping, that is. (You know it’s almost Christmas when the day after Halloween, the grocery stores start hauling out the red ribbon and fake mistletoe.) A bit premature, but that’s cultural change for you. Used to be ...
  4 weeks ago

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