Post about Christmas
Peppermint Almond Bark This one is too easy. Â Too, TOO easy, but it’s one that we can’t do without each Christmas season. Ingredients: 1 lb white almond bark 1 cup crushed peppermint candy Directions: Melt the almond bark over very low heat or in the top of a double boiler. Â Be careful not to scorch
Homemade Caramels These buttery caramels have been a delicious holiday treat in my home since I was a child. Ingredients: 1 12-oz can of evaporated milk Dash salt 2 cups sugar 1 3/4 cups Karo syrup 1/2 lb butter 2 tsp vanilla Directions: Combine 2/3 of the can of milk, salt, sugar, Karo syrup and
Last year, I did a post a day for the twelve days of Christmas. Â This year, I’m going to do it again, but this year, it will be the twelve culinary days of Christmas. Â I’m going to share some of my favorite recipes with you. Â Some of them are Christmas treats and others are recipes
And here are the answers that I promised you! HYAMLCLYHBL – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas TFNTADS – The First Noel GRYMGLNYD – God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen BWBRTGGNOWACTHTB – Bells Will Be Ringing ICUAMCTGSOO – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear SNHNAICAIB – Silent Night OTFDOCMTLGTM – The Twelve Days of Christmas DTHWBOHFLLLLLLLL
Although the wonderful events Christianity remembers on this holy day didn’t happen on 25 December, I join with my Christian brothers and sisters throughout the world in celebrating the events of the birth of Jesus Christ: And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
The Man Who Missed Christmas by J. Edgar Park It was Christmas Eve; and, as usual, George mason was the last to leave the office. He walked over to a massive safe, spun the dials, and swung the heavy door open. Making sure the door would not close behind him, he stepped inside. A square
The Only Christmas I Remember by Bob Lonsberry In the first-grade we were poor, in a house with three other families on a busy street a few blocks from school. And it was Christmas. I knew that. But I didn’t know we were poor. You don’t know those things when you’re in the first-grade. When
The Cobbler and His Guest by Leo Tolstoy In a certain town, there lived a cobbler, Martin Avdeich, by name. He had a tiny room in a basement, one window of which looked out on the street. Through it he could see only the feet of those who passed by, but Martin recognized many people
Stubby Pringle’s Christmas by Jack Schaefer High on the mountainside by the little line cabin in the crisp clean dusk of evening, Stubby Pringle swings into the saddle. He has shape of bear bundled think against cold. Battered hat is pulled down to sit on ears, and in side pocket of jacket are rabbit-skin earmuffs
The Gift of the Magi by O Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such