Homemade holidays: 12 days of vintage sweets
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This article was published 13/12/2022 (1032 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
To cap off the Free Press’s anniversary year, we’re plumbing the archives for holiday recipes of yore. Follow along until Dec. 23 for a sampling of the sweet, strange and trendy desserts to grace our pages and your tables over the last 150 years.
Mulled apple juice delivers holiday cheer
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Cinnamon, cloves and warm apples — throw a pot of this mulled apple juice on the stove and your home will be smelling like holiday cheer in no time.
Divinity fudge answers prayers for those with a sweet tooth
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Divinity fudge? More like a sticky, marshmallowy nightmare. I’m not sure the task of cleaning rock hard egg whites and syrup from the beaters of my mixer was worth the pretty, but cloyingly sweet results of this recipe (which I had to make twice because the first batch was too runny to cut).
Frosty, festive inspiration from 1930s ‘hand freezer’
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for Christmas ice cream. No? Well, then I’d like to take this opportunity to push for the revival of the ice cream-as-holiday-dessert trend of the 1930s.
Day 4: Cranberry meringue pie
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Cranberry propaganda was having a heyday 100 years ago. In 1922, the pages of the Free Press were littered with advertisements for the tart red berries, with promotions ramping up, understandably, around the holiday season.
Day 3: Cocoanut caramels deliver a sweet and simple tropical treat
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With lightly browned sugar, lemon extract and coconut — or rather cocoanut, as per the original recipe — these sweet and simple treats are decidedly tropical.
Day 2: Plum pudding recipe indulges in old-fashioned passion for dried fruit
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For the first several decades of the Free Press’s existence, holiday recipes were decked with all manner of dried fruits and booze. If it wasn’t fruitcake, it was plum pudding.
Day 1: Fruitcake recipe fit for a queen
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Have you heard the one about monkey soup? How about sailing through the Canary Islands? Or the time a family member swiped the recipe for Queen Victoria’s wedding cake from the castle kitchen?
To see our archive of previous years of holiday baking click here.
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