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'm a professional pastry chef and even I don't attemot divinity candy! That stuff is even more temperamental than pecan pralines!!
We make pfefferneuse (sp?) cookies every Christmas!
Ambrisia "salad" isn't a salad… that's pure duabetes in a bowl!!😮😮
We maje homemade cranberry-orange relish every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas! Delicious!!
My mom makes a clam chowder fir every new year's day party that everyone adores. I'm sure there'd be an all-out revolution if she didn't make it 😂
My mom and I are going to make sugarplums for this Christmas 😊
I'm 63, when i was 10 I stole the plate of rum balls. I ate everyone of them. Boy did I get drunk and ended up throwing up everywhere. My dad laughed and my mom was mad. I never got in trouble for it.
When I was growing up, our neighbors were Norwegian. Her mom was a traditional Norwegian cook. Lefse was reserved for the holidays. I would talk her daughter..my friend, into sneaking some for me. I so looked forward to it every Christmas. It was years before I found out that she knew all along about my sneaky ways. She would set some aside for me.
I’m 69 my mother and grandmother would start making cakes after Thanksgiving to have for get-togethers and Christmas they made stack cakes, jam cakes, coconut cakes, white fruitcake, and quick mix spritz cookies and all kinds of candy.
My Gran always made pinoché, divinity, mince meat tarts, gingerbread cookies, cinnamon rolls, parker house rolls and buttermilk biscuits with fresh cranberry sauce and whipped cream.