Christmas Candy Craft by the Sweetmeat Expert
A long instructional piece on candy making and Christmas confections. It covers fondant preparation, candy dipping, and recipes from Mrs. Owen including orange dreams, cream walnuts, chocolate creams, grilled almond drops, nougat, and nougatines with step by step techniques for beginners. It notes utensils, storage tips, and echoes nostalgia for Catherine Owen's candy making book.
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Catherine Owen
Julinary
How to Make the Most Delicious Fondant Delights
The article guides fondant based confections with steps to prepare green brown and white mixtures, dip nougat rolls in syrup, and coat them with chopped nuts and sugar. It details glazing techniques for glace fruits including grapes and orange quarters, noting bananas spoil quickly and grapes keep three or four days while orange quarters last only about twenty four hours.
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Fee
Ron
How the South Celebrates Christmas in the Old Way
A Southern Christmas week features hog and beef for feasts, jelly and pickles galore, and grand table settings. Oysters, oyster gumbo, and a roasted chestnut stuffed turkey headline a multi course dinner with rice, sweet potatoes, and elaborate jellies as guests arrive for days of merrymaking and family pomp.
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England
Alabama
Festivity Adheres to Ancient Southern Christmas Customs
The Southerner and English meals share Irish potatoes with butter, pepper, and salt. Christmas dinner features butter beans or spinach, beets, and a hearty Southern salad. Desserts include plum pudding, charlotte russe, jelly, and shaking jelly with silly bub, followed by coffee, gifts, and fireworks on the plantation.
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Merrie
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Martha Young
Washington
South
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