Buffet Style Is Ideal for New Years Entertaining
New Year festivities call for simple but stylish food and festive buffet set ups. Read on for budget friendly menus from waffles with sausage to Welsh rarebit and molded fruit salads, plus step by step recipes for waffles sausages spaghetti with chicken livers and finale cookies and bars.
Lynn Sways: Bacon Cooking Tips For Crisp Yet Tender Results
Lynn explains bacon cooking methods for tenderness and crispness. She details pan frying starting in a cold pan on low heat with occasional turning and fat removal, broiling at three to three and a half inches from heat with brief turns, and baking at 400 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes without turning.
History and Legend of Trees and Cribs at Christmas
The article traces the origins of the Christmas tree and the nativity crib. It notes legends of the Christ Child blessing the pine and the tree as emblem, and describes the crib’s rise from St Francis of Assisi’s 1223 Greccio tableau to Renaissance and regional names like Krippe and Nacimiento. It concludes with America adopting both traditions widely.
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Quiz answers on constitution signers and history
Seven signers were foreign born. The matador kills the bull. A lee shore lies on the windward side. Amalia Jenks Bloomer fought for trousered wear. Patrick Henry opposed ratification.
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Christmas Customs Across Europe to the Americas
The article surveys Christmas practices from cattle bowing eastward at midnight in Europe to barnyard crowing in the season, oats offerings in Norway, parish feasts in Britain, and Irish raffles. It notes Shropshire sword dancing, Yorkshire street parades, and the Mexican pinata tradition with a candlelit doorway procession and a toy-filled clay vessel.
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Europe
America
Norway
Sweden
British Isles
Culdaff
Ireland
Yorkshire
Shropshire
Country Priest and Schoolmaster Behind Silent Night
The Christmas hymn Silent Night was written by Joseph Mohr a priest born 1792 in Salzburg and Franz Gruber born 1787 the Arnsdorf schoolmaster who composed the music. Mohr was ordained in 1815 and served near Salzburg while Gruber served as organist in Hallein.
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Joseph Mohr
Salzburg
Austria
Laufen
Salza
Arnsdorf
Franz Gruber
Hochburg
Hallein
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