My first Christmas stockings were Dad’s socks repurposed for the night. Don’t get me wrong I was not disadvantaged nor was I unusual, it was the 1960’s, and my parents believed Santa was not really what Christmas was about. Despite that, in the weeks leading to Christmas eve, I heard reminders about Santa’s naughty listContinue reading “Christmas stockings, a potato and lemon nut loaf”
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Plum pudding, Cook Scows, and Bake Ovens.
A seasonal reshare… It is pushing it a bit to call this recipe seasonal…ideally preparation of this traditional Christmas pudding would have happened long before the first week of November but ideal is not reality. The product will be delicious regardless, admittedly even more so the longer it has to cure. Betsey probably made oneContinue reading “Plum pudding, Cook Scows, and Bake Ovens.”
Christmas stockings, a potato and lemon nut loaf
My first Christmas stockings were Dad’s socks repurposed for the night. Don’t get me wrong I was not disadvantaged nor was I unusual, it was the 1960’s, and my parents believed Santa was not really what Christmas was about. Despite that, in the weeks leading to Christmas eve, I heard reminders about Santa’s naughty listContinue reading “Christmas stockings, a potato and lemon nut loaf”
Plum pudding, Cook Scows, and Bake Ovens.
Cast iron cookware seems everywhere at the moment, although only skillets and frying pans and not the large pots, bake – ovens1 (aka Dutch Ovens) and utensils once common in households. Cast iron cookware retains heat wonderfully, and provided it is properly seasoned is non stick2! Although the newly manufactured variety come pre-seasoned, many peopleContinue reading “Plum pudding, Cook Scows, and Bake Ovens.”
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