Favorite holiday treats

[alyxen]

You know the ones. The items that only get put on shelves for November and/or December. What are some of your favorites?

Personally, one of mine has to be the Gingerbread man icecream sandwiches (that I've not found yet this year).

When I was younger, it was apple cider.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Egg nog. Specifically bordens

 

[TheEarl]

What is Egg Nog? Heard of it on so many Yank television programmes, but it's not something that we have in England.

Chocolate coins! Just so long as they're not Euros, I'm very discriminating against the coins I buy.

The Earl

 

[Colleen Thomas]

What is Egg Nog? Heard of it on so many Yank television programmes, but it's not something that we have in England.

Chocolate coins! Just so long as they're not Euros, I'm very discriminating against the coins I buy.

The Earl

Egg nog is bascically heavy cream with eggs, sugar, vanilla and nutmeg added. It's very thick, rich and smooth. Probably adds ten pund just looking at at it, but it's worth it

 

[rgraham666]

My mom's fruitcake. Especially if it's last year's fruitcake.

It takes about a year for it to age just so.

 

[Guest]

Whipped cream.

 

[TheEarl]

My mom's fruitcake. Especially if it's last year's fruitcake.

It takes about a year for it to age just so.

Oh seconded to that suggestion! My mother's fruitcake and ginger cake, which she only ever makes at Christmas. And my father's turkey soup after Boxing Day.

Jeez, now I'm homesick. Thanks guys!

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Christmas pud and brandy butter.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Egg nog is bascically heavy cream with eggs, sugar, vanilla and nutmeg added. It's very thick, rich and smooth. Probably adds ten pund just looking at at it, but it's worth it

Don't forget the bourbon!

There are these cookies here called Jingles, their an anise cookie and even though I hate anise, these were the thing that marked the beginning of the season.

 

[The_Fool]

Egg Nog and pecan pie. Not necessarily together....

 

[alyxen]

I don't think I have ever actually tried egg-nog. Maybe this year..and fruit cake (the one time I tried it), was not so much good. Basically not the texture I look for in my baked goods.

 

[cloudy]

My mom makes these little candies - I think she calls them bourbon balls. The inside is almost like a nougat, but with alot of bourbon in it, and then she presses a pecan on either side, and dips half into dark chocolate. Oh, gawd, I want some!

 

[fille]

Peppermint ice cream.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Rum truffles, and a German cake with icing sugar over the top called Stollen... and cranberry sauce, and turkey wings, Chistmas cake, the bacon and sausages inside the turkey... looks like I'm headed for the midnight munchies...

 

[Guest]

 

[CharleyH]

Damn, my only tradition is Christmas Eve King Crab feast, but that hardly qualifies.

Hm, no Christmasy things whatsoever.

 

[millennium_bard]

Scotch shortbread Christmas cookies from my grandmothers recipe.
With simple icing made of confectioners sugar, vanilla, water and food coloring.

The kitchen table is full of cookies cooling on wire racks ready to be frosted and put aside.

I am also going to make ginger snaps and peanutbutter cookies over the weekend.

Next week I do the gingerbread men and the caramel pecan cookies.

After that I start on making the various Christmas candies.




Can you tell I love to cook?

 

[Guest]

Rompope

It's pronounced Rohm-POH-peh and is referred to as Mexican eggnog. It's rich like eggnog but flavored with canela (cinnamon) and rum. Don't buy it in stores, must be homemade.

Perdita

 

[Bridget69]

Definitely egg nog!

 

[Edward Teach]

Egg nog. Egg nog with rum and bourbon served in a clear punch cup with a sprinkle of nutmeg.

Moravian cookies. Moravian spice and/or sugar cookies that will literally melt in your mouth, hand made in Old Salem, NC with molasses, so thin you can almost see through them.


Eddie The Hungry

 

[SlickTony]

I've always preferred homemade eggnog. I've got a recipe somewhere that calls for rum and brandy. Has zillions of calories in it, though, and the last time I had any, which was sometime in the 90s, I drank too much of it and was sick.

Panettone bread. Much better than fruitcake. My mother makes it every Christmas. You can buy it, and it's not bad, but it's always better if you can get some homemade from someone you know.

Speaking of Moravian anything, in my church we have a ceremony on Christmas Eve called the Moravian Love Feast that involves the serving of either coffee or Russian tea and these delicious little muffins that I think have cardamom in them, by people performing the office of diener--they wear these white aprons and caps. I have been trying to get the recipe to those muffins for years.

 

[Guest]

Kosha cookies. Ukrainian cookies that my grandfather used to make. basically a roll of dough slathered with jelly, raisins,walnuts or whatever nuts (i omit them), cin. nut meg and sugar...all rolled up and baked, then cut into cookies.
love them.. only have them around xmas and i think that is because those ingrediants were rare or hard to find or expensive in the Ukraine.

 

[Edward Teach]

I've always preferred homemade eggnog. I've got a recipe somewhere that calls for rum and brandy. Has zillions of calories in it, though, and the last time I had any, which was sometime in the 90s, I drank too much of it and was sick.

Panettone bread. Much better than fruitcake. My mother makes it every Christmas. You can buy it, and it's not bad, but it's always better if you can get some homemade from someone you know.

Speaking of Moravian anything, in my church we have a ceremony on Christmas Eve called the Moravian Love Feast that involves the serving of either coffee or Russian tea and these delicious little muffins that I think have cardamom in them, by people performing the office of diener--they wear these white aprons and caps. I have been trying to get the recipe to those muffins for years.

Homemade does taste better, ST, but the problem is that you have to use raw eggs which will sometimes make you sick. I made a huge batch one Christmas Eve and everyone who drank over two cups got sick. I drank a ton and thought I was going to die Christmas day. It's store bought for me from now on. Besides, with enough rum and bourbon, I can't tell the difference.


Ed

 

[SlickTony]

I doubt it was the raw eggs that did it--I make homemade mayo, which also involves raw eggs, and don't take any harm. It was the rum and brandy in conjunction with all the butterfat. Guaranteed to tear your gut up.

 

[R. Richard]

In Mexico they Cervecería Moctezuma (Brewery Montzuma) brews a special edition beer called Noche Buena (Night Good) only at Christmas time. It has been a holiday tradition in Mexico for decades.

Individuals began to sneak Noche Buena beer across the border in the 50s and it was sold in some Mexican markets in Southern California at least. It is now widely available along the border, but only at Christmas.

Noche Buena is a lager type beer with a full body and a dark hue. Try it!