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Old December 18th 03, 01:51 AM
Butterfly
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PLEASE share your recipe for the stollen....
I am actually thinking of making the 6 layer cake--first time EVER--from
scratch no less--(always make a New Year's Log but not this year)--we are
having COMPANY for CHRISTMAS DAY (((first time in 24 years!!!!!!--and WE
are not traveling for it either ; ))) so I will make the 6 layer. Getting
excited about it.......and about company : )

Butterfly (finally a bit more 'sane' but still NO replies from ANY
Dr--tomorrow DD will HAND CARRY a letter in to my Dr's office---he will call
me as soon as he gets answers--so far he hasn't let us down in that
respect--and I won't have to go out in with all those hacking /kauufffffin
ppls)
"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!



Oh...I forgot. Stollen. I make stollen every Christmas season and
still love it as much as I did when I was a kid. I had forgotten
about making it this year. I'm having a hard time getting in the
spirit of things. Maybe making stollen will help!

Mardi

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Old December 18th 03, 02:44 AM
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My favorite Stollen is the Quick Stollen in the Sunset Favorite Recipes
cookbook. It's a baking powder rather than yeast one, and seems to stay
fresh longer. Not that it lasts very long, but when I made loads of it, it
really did keep well. I haven't made it in a couple of years and the book is
packed away, or I'd type the recipe for you.

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"Butterfly" wrote in message
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PLEASE share your recipe for the stollen....
I am actually thinking of making the 6 layer cake--first time EVER--from
scratch no less--(always make a New Year's Log but not this year)--we are
having COMPANY for CHRISTMAS DAY (((first time in 24 years!!!!!!--and WE
are not traveling for it either ; ))) so I will make the 6 layer. Getting
excited about it.......and about company : )



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Old December 18th 03, 03:59 AM
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Our family has several cookie recipes that *must* be made at Christmas time. We
usually eat banana bread and date nut bread Christmas morning while opening our
stockings.

I like to be the first one up on Christmas morning. At that time I think about
Christmases past and the people who are no longer with us and I count the
blessings I've had during the year. It makes a wonderful start to the day.

Sandy
in Chapel Hill, NC


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

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Old December 18th 03, 10:45 AM
Lynn Tocker
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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!

"You have to have a Dream!"


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Old December 18th 03, 12:16 PM
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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!


Gosh this is a hard question!

We have made our own traditions, adopting some inventing others.
DH's parents are long since dead and mine live 1500 miles away, so we
have made Christmas our own. I love all of it.

Getting up at the buttcrack of dawn on the 13th to dress up a DD and
make sure she doesn't set her hair or anything else on fire (she gets
to wear a wreath with candles in it on her head), then going back to
bed so she can bring DH and me Saint Lucy buns in bed. This year Ash
got to help wearing a poofy white shirt, a pointy hat and sparkly
stars. (My grandpa, mom's stepdad, was Swedish)

Decorating the tree for hours because nobody can agree on where
anything goes (except for Piglet and his star).

Measuring the littlest kid's mouth on Christmas eve, so I know how big
to make the lasagna noodles (even if we are buying them that year).

Chasing after the kids with a wooden spoon and issuing dire threats
while they laugh at me, after the annual (and now traditional) kugel
snatching.

That warm, snuggly feeling after all the kids are in bed on Christmas
eve, and the lights are out and just the tree is on.

Holding hands around the Christmas tree after cocoa on Christmas
morning and singing the Who's (down in Whoville) Christmas song.

Favorite foods? Since I am reactive hypoglycemic, and have to eat
carefully to avoid passing out, I enjoy the cooking more than the
eating. Watching others moan about their weight while wistfully
eyeing the plate of cookies or the slice of cake they are going to
eat, is very fun. (EG)

Blitz kuchen (has been dubbed "the swedish crack")
Isli cookies
My ever impressive fruitcake
marshmallows always amaze and astound
My gingerbread architecture is always fun to make and fun to watch the
kids try to figure out how to eat.
liquid center cherries which amaze more than the marshmallows (easy
peasy, just soak the cherries in brandy or other proof liquor for a
week or so before wrapping them in fondant and dipping them in
chocolate, or add a few of drops of glucose before wrapping them if
you want to avoid the alcohol, and let them ripen for 2 weeks before
eating them)
Christmas pudding with charms in it


My personal favorites are Miz Ragmop's seven layer dip
(I've been corrupted by a texan!), tangerines, pomegranetes and nuts
in the shell.

NightMist


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Old December 18th 03, 01:41 PM
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What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition?

My daughters, who are both history teachers in their mid-twenties, insist on
the same cookies year after year, mostly recipes from my grandmother. Every
year, I try to eliminate one of the old recipes in favor of a new one, and one
of the girls gets upset and asks for the old recipe so she can make the cookie
I left out. Eventually, I will have them making all the old recipes, and I can
just try out new ones every year!

Linda in Wappingers Falls


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Old December 18th 03, 02:58 PM
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"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

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Old December 18th 03, 03:08 PM
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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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Old December 18th 03, 03:49 PM
Taria
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A neighbor from Columbia brought over a loaf of bread one
Christmas that was traditional to her country. I can't remember
what she called it. It was very similar to what my czech grandma
made as Hoska, which is very similar to stollen.
I just do golden raisins, almonds and lemon peel in mine. I don't
like all the fruit. I'll eat any loaf that comes my way though.
Taria

Kate Dicey wrote:

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.

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!


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Old December 18th 03, 11:31 PM
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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
...
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
...
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!

"You have to have a Dream!"


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