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Good Housekeeping The Great Christmas Cookie Swap Cookbook: 60 Large-Batch Recipes to Bake and Share Best
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Butterscotch Fingers, Chocolate Crinkles, Gingerbread Cut-Outs, Peppermint Meringues: all these Christmas cookies sound delectable, but nobody can bake dozens of recipes at the same time. The solution? A swap! All across America, families, neighbors, community, and church groups gather at Christmas cookie swaps, where each participant brings a large batch of his or her favorite recipe to share. Everyone fills a plate or tin with samplings of the tasty treats; the more people, the merrier—and the more kinds of cookies to try. It’s a fun way to enjoy a variety of Christmas tastes without doing all the work yourself—and to celebrate with those you love.
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Christmas, the most magical time of the year - the season of merriment is here again! The season of new beginnings, where forgotten vows are renewed and love fills the air nearby us that transcends above all. Especially children who wait in much anticipation for their favourite guy - Ole' Santa Claus! Don't you just love the growing merriment and excitement filling the air as the big day draws near? Breathe in...ah, how can you not love the aroma of tasty gingerbread, cakes and cookies baking and other food which are specially prepared only while the Christmas season?
Time for parties and celebrations and you are probably scratching your head for ideas or small miniature parties for house and friends. This can be a challenge especially if you are looking at arrival up with something fresh and new. Some tips here if you plan to hold a party at home:
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Firstly, have the right mix of music. Have appealing Christmas music to create the right festive mood of party cheer as your guests enjoy the food and laughter. Can you picture your guests having fun with Silent Night playing in the background?
Next, decorate your house with original Christmas decorations to set the right atmosphere. Don't forget Christmas stockings, mistletoes and Christmas ribbons. Have fullness of lightings, especially outdoors. Pay special concentration to the Christmas Tree. Make it sparklingly grand!
Kids will be at your party? arrange special activities to occupy them and ensure adequate management of them. Leave the tv on with Christmas cartoons or movies.
And most importantly, some Christmas dessert ideas if you're planning to serve your guests.
Prepare a wide spread of food and desserts, in other words, something for everyone. Dress desserts up with pretty original Christmas colours. Consist of cream cheese desserts, chocolate desserts and the original Christmas cake or puddings and even homemade candies for kids. Put in order great fruit punches so that everyone can enjoy them. All the time Put in order more than expected. That's the spirit of Christmas - giving and abundance.
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Butterscotch Fingers, Chocolate Crinkles, Gingerbread Cut-Outs, Peppermint Meringues: all these Christmas cookies sound delectable, but nobody can bake dozens of recipes at the same time. The solution? A swap! All across America, families, neighbors, community, and church groups gather at Christmas cookie swaps, where each participant brings a large batch of his or her favorite recipe to share. Everyone fills a plate or tin with samplings of the tasty treats; the more people, the merrier—and the more kinds of cookies to try. It’s a fun way to enjoy a variety of Christmas tastes without doing all the work yourself—and to celebrate with those you love.
Good Housekeeping helps home bakers enter into the joy, camaraderie, and pure deliciousness of this tradition with a new collection of 60 favorite Christmas cookie recipes from around the world—each configured to make batches of at least eight dozen cookies. Choose from holiday classics and contemporary twists; they’re easy to make with everyday ingredients. And each recipe has been triple-tested for success in the famed Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, so you can bake with confidence. For extra help, there are also great tips on techniques and shortcuts, as well as fun ideas for throwing the best cookie swap ever. Finally, as a special bonus, the book features removable blank recipe cards in the back—so you can pass along the recipe.
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Easy chocolate desserts work best as they are a favourite with most folks, so you will roughly never go wrong. You can also assuredly find many favourite Christmas dessert recipes that are available online or from recipe books if you are keen on manufacture your own homemade cakes, cookies or pies. Again, easy is the keyword here, as you will want time to mingle around.
I have a simple recipe for you too - it's called the tasty Yuletide Fruit Cake which took me less than 30 minutes to Put in order so you'll have fullness of time for your guests too.
Ingredients :
1/2 cup Self-raising Flour; sifted
1 can Condensed Milk
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
1 1/2 cups Dessicated Coconut
2 1/2 cups Pecans; coarsely chopped
1 cup Dried Apricots; chopped into small bits
1 1/2 cups Dates; coarsely chopped
300 g Candied Cherries; red and green; chopped
2 tbsp Icing Sugar; for decoration
Method:
Mix chopped pecans, apricots bits, dates and cherries together. Drizzle condensed milk over fruit mixture and keep stirring. Add in vanilla essence. Now add in dessicated coconut. Fold in sifted flour until no more flour lumps.
Spoon cake mixture into greased tube pan. Bake in preheated oven at 150°C for 20 minutes before upping heat to 170°C and bake for another 30 minutes.
Allow cake to cool a miniature before removing from pan. Dust cake lightly with icing sugar. Keep cake in air-tight container.
Christmas Party Tips and Christmas sweetmeat IdeasMake a Buttermilk Pie! Tube. Duration : 3.30 Mins.
India Galyean shows us how to make this simple yet amazing custard type pie. Cooking entirely from scratch, India uses ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen. delicious and nutritious! (except for the nutritious part)
A Victorian Tea Party would be the most elegant of all. all in Victorian times was done lavishly. So break out your grandmothers china, silver, crystal & serving pieces. The fancier the better. Of policy if you have a truly prized proprietary that would break your heart if it was damaged, please don't use for the party. Accidents do happen! Before you get your house ready & prepare your food, you have to send out invitations.
Invitation Ideas
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There are so many options here. With today's computer programs you can make some gorgeous ones at home. Tuck an actual tea bags in the invitation. Possibly make some using paper doilies & scrapbooking supplies.
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Decorating & Serving
You will want to make the house as pretty as possible. Fresh flowers are a must, use them everywhere. I had a birthday tea in early June & I put vases of peonies everywhere, they are beautiful. Use primary vases, or teapots that no longer have lids. Sometimes you can find then for a trade since they no longer have a lid! Use candles both tapers & scattered votives or tea lights. I use some of those fancy shaped Christmas light that are sold now in all kinds of shapes. I have some pretty heart ones & some flower ones & even some dragonfly lights ( those are for the fairy tea party - see my page on fairy tea parties) Play soft music in the background. There are even tea party music Cd's you can purchase. For tablecloths try lace or damask. Scatter silk rose petals on your table. Use real linen or fancy paper napkins. I found some monogrammed napkins at an antique store in California last year. They were reasonable I guess because not too many population have an "O" monogram.
For Serving Pieces You Will Need At Least Some of the Following
Teapot Silver Or China
Sugar & Creamer
Salt & Pepper Shakers
Water Pitcher
Various Serving Trays
Tole Tray
China Serving Platters
Silver Serving Pieces
Crystal Serving Pieces
Crystal Plates
Crystal Bowls
Silverware
Pedestal Cake Plates
Porcelain or China Teacups
Pretty Plates(mix & match is Ok)
Jam or Jelly Serving Jar
Demitasse or Fancy Spoons
You don't need to spend a lot of money. You can find some great bargains at your local thrift stores, flea markets & antique malls. Mix & Match is by all means; of course Ok for teacups & saucers. Even mismatched sets are Ok. Some I have been given as gifts, but most are from estate sales or thrift stores. I have at least 24 mix & match cups & saucers.
I love the pedestal cake plates or the tiered serving pieces. I have some I purchased at the Salvation Army. I bought a vintage Hobnail cake plate for . It has a heal on the pedestal part , but I cover with acceptable fancy ribbon! Be sure you use lots of scented candles, be creative with your candle holders. Use paper or tatted doily under or on your serving pieces.Be sure you have a nice glass or crystal on hand for water. Maybe not all of your guests drink tea.
To use for serving sugar or with teacups, or as party favors, be sure to see some of the demitasse spoons I sell. Aren't they sweet! Tie them up to a tea bag with a dinky satin ribbon & you have a darling tea party favor. If you can find some bargains, give each guest a fancy teacup to take home.
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Offer your guests a variety of tea flavors. I leave them out in a lined basket. It is fun to use decorated sugar cubes & sugar tongs too!
Tea Sandwiches
There are many varieties of tea sandwiches you can serve. Try to find a firmer style bread, cut the crust off & cut sandwiches either diagonally so you have 2 triangle sandwiches or in 4's for a bit smaller sandwiches. Cucumber sandwiches have long been a tea party tradition. This is an easy one that everyone likes. Just spread softened cream cheese on bread & top with thinly sliced cucumbers. Simple. For a fall or Christmas time tea try turkey & cranberry sauce sandwiches. Use your popular egg salad or chicken salad recipe. Try adding sliced almonds to your chicken salad recipe, yum! For other fillings you can use, watercress, tomatoes, cheese, deli meats, smoked salmon or ham salad. For Children spread softened cream cheese on bread & top with jelly, cut with cookie cutter. On top of the sandwich spread just a bit of softened cream cheese & dust with sprinkles.
Scones Biscuits Cookies & Cakes
You cannot have a Victorian Tea Party without scones. You can find a variety of scone recipes on the internet. I have used scone mixes before as well. If you have a Panera Bread Store in your area, they have marvelous orange scones. You might like to have primary devonshire cream, lemon curd or jelly or jams for your scones & biscuits.
Lemon Curd Recipe:
3 eggs
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup salted butter
1 cup sugar
Mix together melted butter & sugar. Add well beaten eggs & lemon juice. Place in double boiler or over simmering water. Stir continuously for 15 minutes or until thick. Allow to cool & refrigerate. Will keep for about 2 weeks.
Traditional Tea Cakes Recipe:
4 cups flour
1 cup butter
2 egg yolks, beaten
milk
1 egg white, beaten
1/4 cup sugar
Caraway seeds
Mix all ingredients together, mix to paste with a dinky warm milk, cover with a cloth and let stand for about an hour in a warm place. Roll out cut with round or shaped cutter & bake on lightly greased or sprayed sheet at 350 degrees until they are golden brown. For other treats serve a variety of breads, cakes & cookies. Serve sliced banana bread, shortbread cookies, your popular holiday cookies, lady fingers, lemon cookies or biscuits, orange cake, peach or strawberry tarts or tartlets, petit fors, applesauce cake, brownies or fudge, carrot cake, gingerbread, or tiny cupcakes.
Tea Party Themes
Do you need an excuse to have a Victorian Tea Party?? Next time you host a baby or bridal shower, make it a tea party, a birthday party for a friend, a Christmas tea is all the time beautiful. Host one for your ladies group at church or ladies Bible study. Celebrate an anniversary, request over your grandma, or granddaughters, let your dinky girl request her friends for a fancy dress up day! merge a tea party with an etiquette class, have a organery tea party in the summer, and of policy there is all the time Valentine's Day, my favorite. Be sure to visit my website for tea accouterments and tea party favors!
How To Host A Victorian Tea Party Ideas RecipesGingerbread house lesson 1 how to design and make bread Tube. Duration : 4.35 Mins.
Getting Started: First of three lessons on how to design, bake, and build a gingerbread house. Award winning Gingerbread House builder takes you through the steps of making a quality house. This episode we make a basic design, make dough, and walls. recipe for gingerbread dough 6 3/4 cups flour, 1 tbs cinnamon, 2 tsp ginger, 1 1/2 cups corn syrup, 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, 1 cup margarine or butter.
This is a little recipe box/album that I made as a gift for my mother-in-law. Thank you to Laura at Followthepapertrail (Followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com) for her 12 days of Christmas and her wonderful ideas!!
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How to Make a Gingerbread House : How to Make Icing Video Clips. Duration : 2.32 Mins.
Icing is delicious, especially if you get to make it yourself and taste it as you cook. Learn how to make homemade icing in this free video. Expert: Katalin Toth Bio: Katalin Toth is an experienced mother of two children. Filmmaker: Paul Volniansky
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25 Days of Christmas, Day 17: The Making of the Gingerbread House, Pt. 1: The Gingerbread Video Clips. Duration : 4.15 Mins.
Please see my blog for step-by-step instructions cocoskitchen2.blogspot.com See part 2 where I make the Royal Icing youtu.be See part 3 where I construct the house: youtu.be ♥ Follow me on Twitter! ♥ www.twitter.com Share photos of your creations with me on Facebook! www.facebook.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Day 16 of my 25 Days of Christmas series :) Gingerbread Recipe: 1 cup shortening, melted 1 cup molasses 1 cup packed brown sugar 1/2 cup water 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 6 cups flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 tablespoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients; the flour, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Set aside. 2. In a separate large bowl, combine the shortening, molasses, brown sugar, water, egg and vanilla until smooth. Gradually mix in the dry ingredients until they are completely absorbed. Cover and refrigerate for about 3 hours. 3. Roll dough to 1/4 inch thick and cut out your pieces with a lightly floured cookie cutter. If using cardboard cutout pieces, lightly flour them then place over the dough. Using a pizza cutter, slice around the cardboard cutout. 4. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet. When done the cookies will be soft to the touch, they will harden when cooled. Cool completely on wire racks.
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Magic of Christmas (Recipes and Handmade Gifts for the Holidays) Best
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Melt-in-your-mouth recipes, memories of winter fun & handmade gifts that bring holiday cheer! Yummie recipes include sweet & sticky s'more bars, maple hot chocolate, stuffed meatballs, baked apple donuts, apricot pork loin, creamy asparagus soup, warm red-skinned potato salad, honeyed maple carrots and cheddar-basil biscuits. In no time at all you can make a ed dmitten valance, "dear Santa" pillows or add magical ice ornaments to yur holiday punch. Everyone loves gifts from he kitchen...tuck some ocffee stir sticks in with your amaretto coffee creamer or surprise your neighbor with a jar of layered white chocolate chip cookie mix. Grandma will love getting a handprint wall hanging, photo frame tray or tiny sock ornament.
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That popular little character is back looking for friends, in an adventure he’ll never forget.
Confident and cocky, the Gingerbread Baby happens upon a bakery, where he dances and prances in front of a sugar cookie girl, trying to make friends. But she just stares and doesn’t say a word, like all the other sweet treats he tries to meet.
Discouraged, the Gingerbread Baby runs home, chased by a long line of hungry creatures, where Mattie has a fantastic surprise for him—gingerbread friends that fill a giant fold-out page.
Irresistible images inside the confectionery and outside in the snowy Swiss countryside will delight Jan Brett fans.
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www.Burford-Hotels.org Here's a lovely vanilla and gingerbread cheesecake recipe from one of Burford's fine dining establishments, the Swan Inn, Swinbrook. Everything is freshly made by the head chef and includes not only the cheesecake with a gingerbread base but is served with fresh raspberries, raspberry sorbet and a sprig of lavender...Watch & Enjoy! For more reviews and places to eat and drink in Burford, please visit www.Burford-Hotels.org
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Don`t have time to fiddle around with a template for your Gingerbread House? This silicone mold is the perfect solution and makes fantastic birthday cakes as well a Christmas cakes.
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Gingerbread has been nearby for a long time, but the recipes used to make it have changed considerably over the years. Initially gingerbread was made from breadcrumbs, ginger, and a sweetener, like honey. Citizen discovered that ginger has preservative properties and used it accordingly.
The recipe for gingerbread changed, and by the 15th century (the 1400s), the breadcrumbs had been substituted by flour. Honey was substituted with molasses. The biscuit became lighter. Some recipes made sweet, thin crisps of ginger and others were thicker and more biscuit-like.
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Pictoral scenes that told stories were carved in wood and the gingerbread was rolled and pressed into them.
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In ”Gorgeous Gingerbread: The Ultimate Collection of the World's Finest Gingerbread Recipes” you will not find thousands of different recipes you'll end up never using anyway, this is a LASER-focused edition with only the very best Hand-Picked True and Tested Gingerbread Recipes that you will use and love for years to come.
You will be able to make your own delicious Gingerbread food without any harmful preservatives or chemicals. Plus it will taste much better than anything you could ever buy in a store or at a restaurant!
This perfectly and beautifully formatted book includes a Table of Contents and is made from scratch – no other recipe book has been harmed in the making of this one...
In it you'll find traditional and unique variations of mouthwatering scrumptious Gingerbread recipes like for example:
Simply put: If you like Gingerbread – you will LOVE this book!
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In ”Gorgeous Gingerbread: The Ultimate Collection of the World's Finest Gingerbread Recipes” you will not find thousands of different recipes you'll end up never using anyway, this is a LASER-focused edition with only the very best Hand-Picked True and Tested Gingerbread Recipes that you will use and love for years to come.
You will be able to make your own delicious Gingerbread food without any harmful preservatives or chemicals. Plus it will taste much better than anything you could ever buy in a store or at a restaurant!
This perfectly and beautifully formatted book includes a Table of Contents and is made from scratch – no other recipe book has been harmed in the making of this one...
In it you'll find traditional and unique variations of mouthwatering scrumptious Gingerbread recipes like for example:
Simply put: If you like Gingerbread – you will LOVE this book!
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It was first made into figures (like people) n the 16th century (the 1500s). Queen Elizabeth I of England is credited with the first gingerbread men.
Queen Elizabeth was queen of England starting in November of 1558. (She was the daughter of Henry Viii and Anne Boleyn.) Queen Elizabeth was known for having well dressed courtiers in her court. She has been credited with the first gingerbread men. The story goes that she had gingerbread cookies made and decorated to look like her beloved courtiers, and had the cookies presented to them.
Gingerbread men tend to have vague shapes. For instance, the legs do not have definite feet, and they genuinely don't have any toes. The arms don't have definite arms, and they without fail don't have any fingers. Gingerbread women are equally uncomplicated in design. Gingerbread expands when it bakes, even recipes without eggs. As a consequence, the cookies work good when they are not overly detailed.
The detail work comes into play when you decorate these cookies.
So, gingerbread men and women needed houses, chairs, tables, beds, wagons, trees, and livestock that is also made out of gingerbread, and bakers created these.
The Brothers Grimm wrote Hansel and Gretel in 1812. The story told of a witch that wanted to eat the children, Hansel and Gretel. She fattened them up with candy and other sweets, and the children munched on a house made of gingerbread. Gingerbreadhouses became beloved at that time, especially in Germany.
Gingerbreadhouses are beloved in the United States and many parts of Europe, but oddly, not England. These houses are most common during the Christmas season, but also work well for every other holiday. Valentine's Day houses are decorated with pink, red, and white candy. Halloween houses have ghosts popping out of them and are often purposely constructed "wrong." The only limits with gingerbreadhouses are your imagination and the size of your cookie sheets. (I like to develop one or two each year from index cards. Remember that gingerbread is thicker than paper, but put together the cards into anyone kind of house you can design.)
My beloved recipe for gingerbreadhouses is called " the alternate recipe." I replace the shortening with butter and use corn syrup instead of molasses.
Fun Christmas Facts - The History of Gingerbread MenRachel Allen Home Cooking Tube. Duration : 2.52 Mins.
www.amazon.co.uk Bestselling TV cook Rachel Allen feeds her family and yours with a collection of easy and delicious recipes that everyone will love, plus handy kitchen tips and tricks to make your life easier. In this, her sixth cookbook, Rachel shows how easy it is to feed your family great food, every day. From school run to bedtime, Rachel has suggestions that even the fussiest eater will love. Treat your loved-ones to nourishing, delicious food with this indispensable, inspirational recipe collection full of wise words, clever hints and tips and, above all, Rachel's irresistible recipes. Rachel Allen was brought up in Dublin and at the age of eighteen left to study at the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School.
