I HATE fruitcake!!!!!!!!!!layful:
Ok, ok, relax, take a deep breath, breathe in and out slowly. Were you once attacked with a piece of fruitcake? You are safe now. There will be no more talk of fruitcake.
The merging of Thanksgiving and Christmas
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Ok, ok, relax, take a deep breath, breathe in and out slowly. Were you once attacked with a piece of fruitcake? You are safe now. There will be no more talk of fruitcake.
Oh fer the love of Mike, there is nothing wrong with Christmas and there never has been. We can celebrate solstices along with Christmas. Why all the humbug?
My granny made a fruitcake that many people raved about but I do not like it one bit! Bleh!! Ok, I'll calm down now.
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my grandma made a Christmas cookie called Pfeffernusse.. literally translated pepper nut cookies. She made them in the fall and they were hard as a rock.. you could kill someone with a well placed hit.. Then.. she would put them in a sealed tin container with an apple closer to Christmas to soften them up again..
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Christmas is little more than a hijack of the pagan festivals at the year end and Easter can be seen as synonymous with spring and the Vernal equinox. People are free to celebrate any day they want, but the solstices and equinoxes cut across nationalities and religions.
I liked the Pfeffernusse. We always seemed to have some each Christmas season. There was another cookie or cake thing too, just can't think of the name right now.
It was not Fruit cake as I never liked that at all.
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Chocolate cherry cream cheese brownies. I received marriage proposals for those. Eek! Also, lemon bars, decorated sugar cookies, mince tarts, brandy snaps, rum and brandy balls, butter tarts, toffee bars, candy cane squares, gingerbread houses, shortbread, and on and on and on!
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ahhhh lemon bars.. my absolute favorite.... not too sweet.. with just the right amount of tartness.
Shalimar
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QS, I put a tart lemon icing on mine. This year I am attempting lime bars. No recipe, hope it works out.
QuickSilver
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Do you use the pie crust or graham cracker bottom? I like the crust that almost reminds me of shortbread.. melt in your mouth.. ...mmmmmmm
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I use the crust bottom QS. The only things I make with graham crackers are Nanaimo Bars, and cheesecake.
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pepperkakers!
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I'm not religious and one of my sisters was a Jehovah's witness, same as your brother it was the sentiment of cheer and good feelings shared and being with family, definitely not about the material aspects at all but at the same time some shared their religious views or said grace with no judgement, we just enjoyed each other. It was a nice time of year when people where simpatico at least in a moment, we can't manage to get the world to be harmonious much of the year, but, it was good to see families sharing quality time any opportunity of which provided this.
Would it be nice if people shared this spirit of kindness toward each other year round, of course, but, seems that isn't going to happen, so when people are able to put everything aside for a time to spend time with their loved ones, I see it as a plus. At least that's how I saw it before the merging and one upmanship shop till you drop mob crash herds.