What happened to the Christmas recipes that filled our grandparents’ homes with warmth and wonder every December?
In this video, we journey back to discover 25 forgotten Christmas recipes that once defined the holiday season – from mysterious sugarplums that weren’t plums at all to paper-thin Moravian cookies that required generations of skill to perfect. These lost culinary traditions reveal how our ancestors transformed simple ingredients into magical holiday memories through patience, tradition, and love, creating dishes that connected families to centuries of celebration.
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00:00 Introduction
00:25 Chapter 1: Sugarplums
01:50 Chapter 2: Tom and Jerry
03:19 Chapter 3: Green Tomato Mincemeat Pie
04:49 Chapter 4: Divinity Candy
06:23 Chapter 5: Potato Candy Pinwheels
07:56 Chapter 6: Christmas Plum Pudding
09:28 Chapter 7: Brandy Hard Sauce
10:57 Chapter 8: Pfeffernüsse Cookies
12:32 Chapter 9: Moravian Spice Cookies
14:04 Chapter 10: Rum Balls
15:40 Chapter 11: Ambrosia Salad
17:17 Chapter 12: Ribbon Gelatin Salad
18:52 Chapter 13: Cranberry-Orange Relish
20:21 Chapter 14: Oyster Stew
22:03 Chapter 15: Lefse
23:35 Chapter 16: Stollen
25:08 Chapter 17: Aged Fruitcake
26:46 Chapter 18: Gingerbread Steamed Pudding
28:25 Chapter 19: Spiced Pickled Peaches
30:03 Chapter 20: Wassail
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My Mum always made her own plum puddings, and the brandy sauce. As kids we weren't allowed to have the brandy sauce, and got hot custard sauce instead. She made her own dark fruitcake, and yes, she did start that in September. This isn't in the video, but she made her own shortbread biscuits and mince pies too. While we lived in Canada, both parents were English, and had grown up with the English Christmas traditions.
I enjoyed watching the various creations, but the back ground music was most annoying. Sorry!
Music annoying can't listen
My Grandmom was Pa Dutch. I use her potato candy! Still remember the first she mad it for me. One Sunday evening. My cousins and I were in heaven. I miss her dearly.
I wish I could try it all,those pies and the sugarplums looked so delicious!!☃️❄️🥧🥧🍬🧣🧤🎄🎄🎁☕🫐🍇🍓🍒🍊🍏👩❤️👨🧑🎄👼☃️
The fruit cake and nut cake was the only traditional cakes my mom would make every Christmas ..she always included her chocolate pies and pecans pies ..she was a expert at making her homemade meringue tho..something I never could get a taste for ❤..I miss her so much and I miss what she always brought to our dinners..she made them extra special.She was such a wonderful cook and hostess.❤
I'm sorry but oysters are expensive and if you made any thing with oysters,you weren't that poor.
We had clam chowder instead of oyster stew on Christmas Eve…
Assumption Abbey in Ava MO has excellent fruitcake…shipping and handling is included in the price, with no additional taxes…and not that angel food cake garbage…highly recommend!!!