Christmas Customs and Santa Claus Origins
The article explains the meaning of Christmas and its customs, tracing the word origins to Hebrew tribute and detailing St Nicholas as the benevolent figure behind Santa Claus. It notes stocking traditions, carols, and festive meals as core practices, highlighting the moral and communal spirit of the season.
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Santa Cras
St. Nicholas
Nichola
St Nicholas
Christeas
Yale Tate
Francis of
Assa
Salad Accompaniments and Cheese Stuffed Dates
Simple salad can be dressed with easy accompaniments such as stuffed dates filled with cheese and cream. Describe shaping cheese for carrots and crab apples with paprika and cloves, serving as game dishes.
Chafing Dish Delights From Holiday Kitchen
A lively note outlines holiday party dishes including peanut butter based treats and onion soup. It references children and adults enjoying festive snacks, with a recipe fragment for a peanut butter mix to serve on crackers and a hearty onion soup with onions, butter, milk, pepper, sugar, mace, cream, and corn.
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Miss Wilma
Neber
Holiday Buffet Ideas For Seasonal Social Gatherings
The piece extolls the holiday period between Christmas and New Year as ideal for informal entertaining. It urges hosting simple gatherings with attractively arranged buffets, seasonally decorated, and recommends thoughtful food and drink choices to suit the festive spirit.
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Christina
Dates In Cheese Pastry Christmas Treat Recipe
Cream butter and cheese, add flour and knead into pie crust dough. Wrap in wax paper and chill. Roll out thin, cut into squares, wrap around dates, dip in white and rolling nut sugar mix. Bake at 400 F for 15 to 20 minutes. Makes about 15 pieces.
Era of Frugal Desserts with Dried Fruits
Instructions for stewed dried figs with lemon juice ginger and syrup served with whipped cream. Baking dried apricots with raisins in water then sugar and citrus juice. A casual note mentions two pillow slips a week prompting laundry needs.
Menus of the Week Meal Plan Summary
Weekly breakfast lunch and dinner listings show varied fare from grapefruit oatmeal and bacon to lamb and veal cutlets. The typed menu includes beverages, desserts, and sauces with multiple sessions across Monday through Sunday plus a note inviting readers to request recipes.
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Turin
Fish Meld Plus Sea Food Salad
The salad blends crab meat halibut and shrimp with olives pimento and gelatin to form a fish shaped mold. Olives create scales and fins while red pieces simulate eyes and the dish finishes with tartar sauce. Use crab and halibut or crab and shrimp only.
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Decker
Veriaad
Christmas Twist on a Bohemian Christmas Bake
A recipe outlines making Vanocka or Christmas Twist with flour, butter, eggs, evaporated milk, lemon, yeast, and almonds. Dough rises in warmth, then four portions form a loaf with smaller pieces layered on top, brushed with yolk and baked.
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Tts
Mushroom Recipes From A Festive Kitchen
The article outlines simple methods to prepare mushrooms including steamed, sautéed, and broiled styles. It provides steps for washing, drying, cutting stems, buttering, and cooking times to yield flavorful dishes for toast accompaniments.
How to Clean and Preserve Wicker Reed Furniture
Spraying wicker with water helps remove dust and keeps the reed from drying and cracking. This simple dampening method preserves the material and extends its life. Regular light misting prevents brittleness and reduces buildup on woven surfaces.
Pop Corn Candy and Crisps Recipes
A fragmented set of old fashioned pop corn candy and crisp recipes describing buttered popcorn candy and pop corn crisps. It gives steps for melting butter sugar and water, adding corn, forming candy balls, and making crisp popcorn treats with molasses and soda.
Rye Pop-Overs From A Home Kitchen
Rye pop overs are described with a simple batter of rye flour sugar salt milk and an egg. The method covers sifting dry ingredients mixing with milk to form a smooth airy batter, filling pans two thirds full, and baking in a hot oven until browned and popped over. A brief note mentions a sleeve board for ironing sleeves without creases.
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Ina
One-Piece Dinner for a Busy Christmas Week
A simple, hours free roast dinner to prepare between Christmas and New Year. Beef rump steak with carrots turnips and potatoes is layered in a crock with butter herbs and broth then baked in a covered pot.
Caviar Mousse for Elegant Appetizers
A simple recipe uses three ounce caviar with mayonnaise and whipped cream. Blend caviar with mayonnaise then fold in whipped cream, freeze in a tray, and cut into cube like portions for serving.
Celery And Lobster Christmas Hors d Oeuvre
Clear celery stalks and fill with a mixture of lobster paste butter Worcestershire sauce hot sauce and prepared mustard. Endive may substitute celery. Serve with pickled beets and warm wine kir made with diluted wine water sugar and cloves. chill before serving.
Christmas Fruit Salad and Caviar Chips Recipe
A vintage style fruit salad recipe features pineapple, grapes, banana, marshmallows, walnuts and a fruit dressing served on crisp lettuce. It advises chilling, folding whipped cream into the dressing, and garnishing with red and green cherries, with salty wafers to serve. Caviar on potato chips is prepared with seasoned lemony flavors and cheese rosettes for an accompanying bite.
Corn Wattles: A Pond Snack Recipe
A recipe for corn waffles describes a snack to serve between holiday parties. It lists ingredients such as flour salt corn canned, sour milk, melted shortening, and eggs. The method beats dry and wet ingredients then folds in corn before baking on a waffle iron.
Household Hints on Starch Tea and Stain Removal
A vintage tips column offers household tricks including using black tea as a starch substitute for white curtains, extracting water with modern washing machines to speed ironing, and methods to clean electric burners. It also covers polishing metals, removing grass stains with kerosene, and dulling wool gloss with damp cheesecloth and steam.
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