Fruitcake origins traced to English settlers in America
CRAIG CLAIBORNE notes that fruitcakes arrived with early English settlers. While Mrs Beeton’s 1859 cake differs, a recipe titled Good Holiday Cake in the book mirrors Nannie Craig’s pattern. The piece compares two recipes and advocates a Mississippi family version over Beeton’s two pound flour call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craig Claiborne
Pierre Franky
N.Y. Times
New York
Nannie Craig
Mrs. Beeton
Mississippi
Old Fashioned Fruitcake Recipe with Rich Boozy Icing
A detailed fruitcake recipe uses glace cherries pineapple raisins currants pecans almonds and coconut folded with bourbon cognac or rum. Instructions cover batter mixing proofing pan preparation baking times temperatures and a quick fondant icing recipe with notes on storage and serving.
Sea Hawk opening at Manchester Cinema festival run
The Sea Hawk starring Errol Flynn opens the festival of all time favorite films at 3 30 p m Sunday Jan 12 in Manchester. The Southern Vermont Art Center sponsors continuing titles Wuthering Heights Jan 19 The Scarlet Pimpernel Feb 12 Goodbye Mr Chips Feb 9 and The Women Feb 16. Tickets 7 50 limited to 250 and available from the art center with checks to Southern Vermont Artists Inc. Photo from MoMA Film Stills Archive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Errol Flynn
Manchester
the Southern
Vermont Art Center
Wuthering Heights
the Scarlet Pimpernel
Chips
Art Center
Southern Vermont Artists, Inc
Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive
Clark Art Institute reveals 36 drawings from its collection
An exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown presents 36 drawings spanning the 16th to 19th centuries, with emphasis on the 19th. The catalog covers media from metalpoint and pencil to wash and gouache, featuring portraits, nudes, fashion studies, biblical scenes, and genre works. The show includes Rubens and Degas pieces, plus works by Watteau, Goya, Daumier, and Toulouse-Lautrec, among others, and runs through March 2, 1975.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute
Rembrandt
Turner
Watteau
Greuze
Goya
Daumier
Courbet
Toulouse-Lautrec
Jules David
Nadar
Cheret
Legros
Leighton
Clark Art Institute
Secrets of canoeing the sea reveal Polynesian navigation
Washington report on David Lewis and his son Barry recounts how Polynesian navigators crossed vast Pacific distances without instruments. Using wind, wave, star, and bird cues such as hoa hua dele tai swells te lapa bioluminescent streaks and fanakenga stars, they directed outrigged canoes to landfarms across an ocean as large as Russia and China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Polynesia
David Lewis
National Geographic
Central
Pacific
Russia
China
Lewis
London
Kaveinga
Barry
Te Lapa
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Sea Hawk
Pentimento
Cosell
Ixtlan
Minerva Books
Monument Plaza
Bennington
Vermont
Oldcastle Productions, Inc
Charles Dickens
Monument Elementary
Leonardo
Rubens
Hercules
G. B. Tiepolo
St. Peter
Peter
Degas
Peter Paul Rubens
Peggy
Walloomsac, N.Y
Eddie Weiss
Russ
Cal
Spring St
FBI
McCabe
Mrs. Miller
Nickelodeon
Merry Christmas
Arriage
Christina
Barbara Parkins
Peter Haskell
Sun
Celeste Holmes
Billy Jack
Bennington, Vermont
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