OT - what's your favourite Christmas Food/recipe

the Vermont Country Store has all the old type candies. They have a web
site.
Gen

"M. Wetmore" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:32:39 -0000, "Janner"
wrote:

What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition?

Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to
Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve!
So
we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond
Boxing
Day!

I love the old fashioned Christmas candies, which I can't find
anywhere anymore. Candy like Chocolate Straws, Ribbon Candy, the hard
candies that look like Fimo Dough cutouts, etc. I did find Chocolate
Straws on the internet, but shipping is so high it doesn't make it
practical to buy any. But...maybe I'll do it anyway!

Then, there's always Chocolate Covered Cherries, the kind with the
liquid centers. Yum!

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Hi Kate,
Your Christmas recipes have me drooling. Will make the marzipan and stollen
this weekend I think. Will I have to wait 7-10 days before I can make the
stollen with this marzipan? Perhaps I should make two lots, so that I can
test its maturing flavour each day?
Lynn

"Kate Dicey" wrote in message
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Butterfly wrote:

PLEASE share your recipe for the stollen....

There's one on my web site. First recipe in the first Christmas
section. The marzipan recipe is there too... No pix yet. Stollen has
regional variations, so there are lots of different ways to do it.

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Hi Ruth,
Sounds good to me :-) The 80 degree heat, just doesn't work for me somehow.
I've just printed off Kate's Christmas recipes and am intending to make her
stollen. D'you reckon there'd be any chance of getting myself adopted?
Lynn

"Ruth in Happy Camp" wrote in message
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Lynn, if I get REAL weather this Christmas, I'll be happy to swap with you
for a slice of Mardi's stollen. Deal? (I had a skosh of snow the first
of
November, but only rain since then.)
--
Ruth in Happy Camp

"Lynn Tocker" wrote in message
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Roast chestnuts, all burnt on one side, hot spiced wine, REAL marzipan,
plum
pud with glubby custard.
REAL weather (sigh), even after 20 years, I'm not used to the salad type
weather at Xmas.
Lynn


"Janner" wrote in message
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What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition?

Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to
Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas
Eve!
So
we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond
Boxing
Day!

--
Janner

"Quite often lately I have the feeling I don't know what's going
on..." ---
Snoopy!

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Lynn Tocker wrote:

Hi Kate,
Your Christmas recipes have me drooling. Will make the marzipan and stollen
this weekend I think. Will I have to wait 7-10 days before I can make the
stollen with this marzipan? Perhaps I should make two lots, so that I can
test its maturing flavour each day?
Lynn

No you just use it straight away - no hanging about! Same with the
stollen: eaten hot from the oven it makes an amazing pudding! Cold and
decorated, it goes down well sliced and spread with a little best
butter... I've even picked the icing off it and toasted it for
breakfast! Well, it's bread, isn't it? I've yet to try making bread
pudding with it, or cheese on toast...
--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Well, if that lovely recipe takes a year to mature, maybe you
need to post it now ... so we can get started for NEXT
Thanksgiving and Christmas! Please and thank you ma'am!
~PAT in VA/USA

Kate Dicey wrote:
cut ...
I didn't make stollen this year, or the black bun, or the golden
christmas cake, due to op pressures and not having my usual energy
levels. I'll be back on full whack next year, though, and I did buy
cranberries for the cranberry, orange and red wine sauce, which likes a
year to mature...

http://tinyurl.com/yvch3

Here are their Christmas candies....the straws (not chocolate that I can
see tho) are on page 2

HTH
Karlee in Kansas
Queen of Packrats

Take a look!!! http://www.angelfire.com/ks3/karlee/index.html
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matter and those who matter don't mind."
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"M. Wetmore" wrote in message
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| On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:32:39 -0000, "Janner"
| wrote:
|
| What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition?
|
| Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to
| Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve!
So
| we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond
Boxing
| Day!
|
| I love the old fashioned Christmas candies, which I can't find
| anywhere anymore. Candy like Chocolate Straws, Ribbon Candy, the hard
| candies that look like Fimo Dough cutouts, etc. I did find Chocolate
| Straws on the internet, but shipping is so high it doesn't make it
| practical to buy any. But...maybe I'll do it anyway!
|
| Then, there's always Chocolate Covered Cherries, the kind with the
| liquid centers. Yum!
|
| Mardi
| Real e-mail address spelled out to prevent spam. mardi at mardiweb dot
com.
| ____________________
|
| My Quilting page: http://www.mardiweb.com/quilts/MardiQuilts.html
| Paint Shop Pro tutorials: http://www.mardiweb.com/web
| Low-Fat Lifestyle Forum: http://www.mardiweb.com/lowfat

Pat in Virginia wrote:

Well, if that lovely recipe takes a year to mature, maybe you
need to post it now ... so we can get started for NEXT
Thanksgiving and Christmas! Please and thank you ma'am!
~PAT in VA/USA

Well you can use it straight away, but i like it better after a year!
remember to store it in a cool dark place!

The recipe in on my web site, under 'More of Kate's Christmas
Specials'. There are some pix of the heap I made last year!

Not only is is good with turkey and other meats, but it's also a welcome
addition to a Brie sandwich!
--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:58:37 -0500 (EST), wrote:

"Holding hands around the Christmas tree and singing the Who
song".....is that the "Dah Who Door Ray" song? 8^) Love it! Nancycog in
MD

Yup.

The song is called "Welcome Christmas". I believe it was actually
written by Dr Seuss. Full lyrics:

Fah who for-aze!
Dah who dor-aze!
Welcome Christmas, Come this way!
Fah who for-aze!
Dah who dor-aze!
Welcome Christmas, Christmas Day.
Welcome, Welcome
Fah who rah-moose
Welcome, Welcome
Dah who dah-moose
Christmas day is in our grasp
So long as we have hands to clasp
Fah who for-aze!
Dah who dor-aze!
Welcome Christmas Bring your cheer
Fah who for-aze!
Dah who dor-aze!
Welcome all Who's Far and near
Welcome Christmas, fah who rah-moose
Welcome Christmas, dah who dah-moose
Christmas day will always be
Just so long as we have we
Fah who for-aze
Dah who dor-aze
Welcome Christmas Bring your light
Welcome Christmas
Fah who rah-moose!
Welcome Christmas
Dah who dah-moose!
Welcome Christmas While we stand
Heart to heart And hand in hand
Fah who for-aze
Dah who dor-aze
Welcome welcome
Christmas Day

NightMist

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My karma ran over my dogma

In 1963 I bought 'Betty Crocker's Cooky Book" and baked my first batch of
Ginger Creams, a recipe from that book. Every year thereafter, no matter where
we were stationed, that cooky was the *only* one we absolutely couldn't do
without! My husband retired from the AF in 1976 and tho our cooky recipe was
in storage at Christmas, my DD and I went to a local bookstore and copied the
recipe (the book is still being reprinted!). In '77 my daughter b
egan making *the* cooky--even for the 1860's type wedding reception of her
brother in 1990! After she moved to the Land Down Under, I even delivered two
*large* glass bottles of B'rer Rabbit molasses in carry-on luggage so. I don't
always bake them at Christmas now, but I'm sure they're being served in
Ashburton, Victoria this year.

rusty (sorta-kinda missing that girl(g))