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I bake at this time of year. It was my "don't eat and drive" fruitcake earlier this month. But just before Christmas, it's Grandma's Poppy seed bread. Every Christmas and Easter, she'd make a large batch of the long loves filled with poppyseed filling; especially at Christmas, it wasn't the holiday without her specialty.More than …
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Simple goodwill and love are what is needed this season. Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas....patron saint of carvers!
All that's left now is wrapping. Today's principal job was making the Carreras family poppyseed bread. My grandmother brought the tradition with her from Hungary and baked many loaves for the family every Easter and Christmas.In our house, it wasn't Christmas without them. But Grandma was not the recipe-sharing type. If you asked her, she'd …
Humans have a prodigious ability to create and destroy. The very concept of culture ( big C or little c) is something that we are continuously developing and eliminating. So traditions exist as a process; we continually reshape them even as we celebrate them.
This year is the forty-ninth anniversary of my making a rather signature fruitcake. So hold on a moment before the "yuck" or the condescending comments about brick doorstops. I'll say this directly; there is little connection between my cakes and the storied concoctions of your aunt Ethel or the bricks that are available from the stores.
So now comes the question. How vague should I be about the secret?
Simple goodwill and love are what is needed this season. Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas....patron saint of carvers!
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