Holiday Hostess Hints for a Festive Christmas Banquet
A festive cake adds Yuletide air to a Christmas banquet and individual cakes help. When carving turkey cut through the leg, crack the joint, then disjoin the leg. Slice the breast medium thick and use a sharp knife. Turnips as garnish provide a tender side. scoop, butter, and fill with cubed seasoned beets. Reheat and surround the fowl platter. To avoid burning, pour part of the pumpkin filling into the crust first, then add the rest after the crust bakes.
New Ideas Foster Spirit of Christmas
An old fashioned family Christmas guide urges creative decorations using evergreens, yule logs, and red white and blue themes. It favors simple gaiety over costly displays, suggesting DIY touches like painted pine cones, enamelled sticks, and homemade candles to spark joy and reverence.
Christmas Tree Customs Traced From Strassburg to America
A brief note traces how Christmas trees begin with Strassburg’s 1604 tree and spread to England through Prince Albert, then to America via German and English emigrants. It also mentions Annie the chimpanzee at the Philadelphia zoo enjoying a party and her monkey doll toy.
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Annie
Philadelphia
Strassburg
Germany
Victoria
Rince Albert
England
America
Milam County Children Write Santa Clauses for Christmas
A collection of letters from Milam County children requests include toys such as trucks airplanes guns dolls skates bicycles wagons and trains along with family gifts and treats. The notes mention family members and a desire to remember other children as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Jo Ann Crawford
Also Mentioned on This Page
Milam County
Jewel
Ernest
Mother
Daddy
Oliver Rogers
Dorothy Jean Shoat
Dear Santa Claus
Santa
Gertie Rae Fikes
Mary Beth Pool
Eugene Dusek
Lester McCulloch
Alvin Cloud
Doyce Allison
Hazel Cass
Billie Gene Neeley
Doris Pearl Segler
Donald Nelson
Wayne Anderson
Cameron
Dan Tyson
Slocomb Gin Company
Cameron, Texas
Mamie A. Hefley
Walter White
Merry Christmas
Chamberlain’s Dairy
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