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Dec. ’12 Free Book!
This month, because of the busyness of the Christmas Season, our FREE BOOK drawing will be held a week from today. That means on Tuesday, December 11, we’ll draw for our December Free Book. This month’s book is a novel by Olivia Newport – ACCIDENTALLY AMISH. I loved it, and I think you will, too….
About Fruit Cake
When I was a child, we always received a Christmas package from my Grandma Kate and Grandpa Bob, and another from my aunt’s mother, Mrs. Tost. Grandma Kate’s box included a generous chunk of her dark fruit cake. Mrs. Tost, who lived a very elegant and privileged life, sent us a plum pudding and rum sauce in a…
December 2019 FREE BOOK!
This December we are giving away a new hardcover edition of Claire Hopley’s THE HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS FOOD AND FEASTS! From the flyleaf: “This … book celebrates classic Christmas stories and their food and feasts. Each chapter covers a different era and the important foodie tales of the time… 40 must-try Christmas recipes [include] a…
A Glance Back – Back
Um, no, the title is NOT a typo, and the picture? Let me explain. In December 2007 my husband Neil, a high school principal, had begun his first day of Christmas break. He was silently celebrating that he had only one chore left to accomplish, and then the next two weeks were his to do…
BISCUIT
Wild Word Friday! My Great Grandma Clare made the best BISCUITs I’ve ever tasted. They were the melt-in-your-mouth kind of BISCUITs, and, because I never did get her recipe, I have spent my adult life trying to duplicate her masterpiece, without success. So, as a tribute to my Great Grandma Clare, I decided take a…