Happy anniversary, George and Martha

Twelfth Night in Historic Camden County

Illustration from The Granger Collection, New York
And it’s always nice to have a holiday excuse to post one of Anna’s recipes, this one for Twelfth Night Cake

Confections for cold afternoons

I’ve been meaning to share one of Laura’s new, easy 4H recipes, perfect for frosty December afternoons — homemade marshmallows.
I’d been intrigued since first hearing Martha Stewart talk about them — who knew you could make marshmallows, and that they were made out of real food? — but they seemed so darn complicated. [...]

Holiday links and hijinks, and gingerbread

over at Jealous of Gingerbread. Lots of holiday fun, or, as it says on the sidebar,
You’ve found the holiday hotspot…Santa’s favourite hangout…
Here you’ll find all sorts of cool Christmas and holiday fare, from Holiday trivia, to Seasonal “must haves” tons of Christmas crafts, news, links to other seasonal sites and a few extra special [...]

Fruitcake weather

I know my parents for certain and probably some readers consider the more severe winter temperatures up here (-18C this afternoon, around 0 F, and with a bitter wind) “fruitcake weather”. As in, suitable only for fruitcakes like us, content in the ice and snow and it’s not even December yet, for Pete’s sake.
But [...]

Semicolon’s November Recipe Round Up

Sherry at Semicolon has put out a call for a Recipe Round Up she’ll be hosting later this month, on Wednesday the 14th. As Sherry explains,
The November Recipe Round-up count down begins here and now! The category is Holiday Recipes, and I’m specifically looking for those special Thanksgiving and Christmas and Hannukah recipes that [...]

Taking the chill off, with Gingerbread Upside-Down Cake

In need of some cheering up after that sad business about happy endings ☹, I decided to make Gingerbread Upside-Down Cake with pears, from The Fannie Farmer Cookbook (13th edition). Very nice for fall, by the way, or to jazz up a simple autumn supper of venison sausages, creamed garden potatoes, garden tomato [...]

Dessert time

For Karen, because it’s chocolate, it’s as easy as a boxed mix, and a six-and-a-half year-old can make it (also a mother with a head cold and cough who needs to put dessert on the table for company now):
Wacky Cake (from The New York Times, sometime in the early 1990s…)
3 cups flour2 cups sugar½ cup [...]

Poetry Friday: Happy Winter Fudge Cake

While editing my last comment on the previous post for too many italics (I forgot to turn them off), I discovered Elizabeth’s comment yesterday in last month’s Solstice post, asking for the Happy Winter Fudge Cake recipe mentioned. I’m happy to oblige, especially because it includes a bit of poetry.
(PS If you you ever have [...]

Bread again

The other day in my bread post, I wrote
The whole rising process is perfect if you’re homeschooling or farming; you can make your dough, set it to rise and go off and do something else. If you’re longer than an hour, don’t worry; the longer rises give more flavor and also make recipes using more [...]

Possibly better than bread

Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, from Nic at bakingsheet. What else is there to say beyond thank you?

Bread

Last week Melissa in her new Lilting House, inspired by JoVE’s post on meaningful work (who was in turn inspired by Melissa, but that does turn things into a funhouse mirror, doesn’t it?), solicited bread baking advice and recipes, which turned into two posts, here and here, and don’t miss the comments. And [...]

Blue-Ribbon Recipes from Blue-Ribbon Kids

Courtesy of the junior Agriculture Society members in the family:
Daniel’s First-Prize Fudgewhich won in both the kids’ and in the adults’ sections last week(from The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, Thirteenth Edition, by Marion Cunningham, where it’s known as “Million-Dollar Fudge” and described as “A very fast, very easy method, resulting in a fine, creamy fudge” — [...]