Holiday Menu Ideas for Traditional Christmas Dinners
Readable read of a Christmas dinner feature listing traditional mains and multiple dessert and side recipes. It covers glazed ham carving how to, chestnut stuffing, orange shells sweet potato presentation, eggnog pie, and pear salad with Creole steamed pudding.
First Christmas Feast in America Recorded at St Croix 1604
French settlers at St Croix on the Maine coast celebrated the first recorded Christmas feast in America in 1604. The menu included buttered mold and a dish that required steaming for an hour, served warm with spice lemon or caramel sauce.
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Emergency Dessert Fruit Cake Ready In Minutes
Last Minute Fruit Cake is baked in 25 minutes and eaten once cooled. The recipe blends condensed milk, walnuts, coconut, and dates, packed in a buttered leaf pan, baked at 375 degrees for 25 minutes, then cooled and decorated with frosting and candy trimmings.
Market Notes on Fresh Produce and Prices Across Items
Grapefruit varieties in season with price by size. Mixed nuts vary in quality and cost. Celery cabbage and lettuce quality ranges. prices stable. Chives and cucumbers priced reasonably. Green beans and peas show value with peas expensive when frozen option cheaper. Broccoli excellent and Brussels sprouts vary. radishes and red cabbage mixed quality. New green cabbage affordable. carrots mid-range. Acorn squash, cauliflower good. salsify scarce but priced reasonably. Fresh mushrooms solid value. wild rice costs up slightly from last year. Onions sized for creaming with reasonable price. Sweet potatoes mid-range. avocados good value. Persimmons smaller than usual but ripe for salad. Emperors grapes reasonable. chestnuts scarce and costly. DAnjou pears very good but some underripe. medium price. Butter cheaper but fluctuating. Imported olive oil costly.
Oyster Mushroom Creamed Rice Cakes Recipe
Melt butter and flour with seasonings then blend in cream and milk until thick and creamy. Add oysters and mushrooms simmer five minutes. Mix rice with crumbs vegetables and yolk, form into half inch thick cakes, brown in fat, then serve atop the warm vegetable mixture.
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