Monthly Archives: December 2015
Christmas Welcoming Bread
Take ordinary baking powder biscuits, top them with a sugary fruit and nut mix, and suddenly they transform into Christmas bread. That’s what the Michie Tavern in Charlottesville, Virginia served in the 1700’s,
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Tagged 1780s, baking, biscuits, bread, Charlottesville, Christmas, icing, Junior League, Michie Tavern, Richmond, Virginia
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6-4-2-1 Equals a Family Cocktail
The recipe paper-clipped inside one of my grandmother’s cooking pamphlets sounds like a scientific formula: 6 orange juice, 4 ging, 2 vermouth, 1 lemon.
Posted in cocktails, Food, History, memoir
Tagged 1930s, cocktail, ginger ale, lemon juice, orange juice, Prohibition, Richmond, vermouth, Virginia
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More Joys of Jell-O
Take the ingredients of a typical Christmas dessert (dried fruits, citron, nuts, cinnamon), mix them with Jell-O and what do you get? Jell-O Plum Pudding, of course!
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Tagged 1930s, Christmas, Desserts, fruit cake, Grape-Nuts, Jack Benny, Jell-O, Mary Livingstone, plum pudding, prunes, pudding
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Fruits that Sink, Fruits that Float
Jell-O for the holidays? In the 1930s, festive molds competed with cookies on many holiday buffets.
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Tagged bananas, Christmas, Jack Benny, Jell-O, Jell-O Gallery Museum, lemon, Mary Livingstone, peaches
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