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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I actually made fruitcake when I was pregnant with my son he’s 47, I probably started in Sept I remember I put it in small aluminum loaf pans, I was going to give them as gifts for Christmas but since I soaked them in bourbon every week my mother tried one & ended up eating almost all of them
I’ve made cranberry orange relish once & everyone by I liked it, I plan on trying again on thanksgiving this year
I will not eat oysters clams are ok but I’m not into swallowing a big thing of sno especially raw!! 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
I don’t remember any of my grandmothers making any of those except maybe ambrosia salad
I'm 72. I helped my grandmother make homemade mincemeat and christmas puddings. My grandmother was an excellent cook. Mincemeat tarts are my favorite christmas treat. My mom wiuld make me my own mincemeat tarts every year up till she was 90 as i never could make pastry.
I still remember helping my grandma roll out dough for her fruitcake every December 🎂. The whole house smelled like nutmeg and brandy — it didn’t feel like Christmas until that cake came out of the oven.
I recently found a handwritten cookbook my late mother wrote in 1935! It has all her canning recipes and the green tomato mincemeat she would make pies with. What a blessing that I have it
Beautiful video. Thank you with much love and peace. 🙏💚🕊️
We have lost much of the joy of making these dishes. Mostly the togetherness that resulted from preparing it together
well i know why this disgusting crap fell out of favor.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 I remember making Fruit Cakes with my mother…… since, I have made myself, but too much work when no one else would eat them! Gosh I miss that favor…… nothing store bought compares