Comments on: Dietribes: The Stories Behind 5 Holiday Treats

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:26:00 +0000

I’m way late to this post (as I’m very behind on my reading!), but we can’t find pre-made egg nog here in New Zealand. I found a recipe that cooks the eggs/milk (verrrry slowly over very low heat), so no worries about drinking anything potentially dangerous.

And my whole family LOVES fruit cake! The Giant grocery stores in Maryland have the best fruit cake. Ah, how I miss it…

By: Justaddmuscle.com

Justaddmuscle.com — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:18:00 +0000

One of the only way’s to having healthy eggnog is by adding vanilla flavored whey protein and using low fat milk in the recipe.

By: Shaina

Shaina — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Wassail, Wassail, all over the town
Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown
Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree
With the wassailing bowl, we’ll drink to thee.

A choir classic.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:53:00 +0000

I agree with Pam! The Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas has the best fruit cake ever! You can order it by mail, too!

By: rae

rae — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:26:00 +0000

Carrot raisin thing – something like this? There are at least 6 different versions of this stuff on the site….

no links. right.

allrecipes dot com
ingredient search for carrots & raisins will get you there…

By: carver

carver — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:41:00 +0000

Carol my mother was from SC and boiled custard was always a Christmas treat – I like it much better than I do eggnog.

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By: Sorcha

Sorcha — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:13:00 +0000

@Lauren We just ordered some of the Monk fruitcake for the first time. We have high hopes.

I thought the custom of toasting came from the Romans dropping burned bread into their wine to reduce undesirable flavors.

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:09:00 +0000

Eggnog was one of the first recipes I learned to make as a child. I think it was in a Peanuts cookbook for kids. Yummy stuff. Never made us sick, but maybe we just got lucky.

Love a good fruitcake, but not all ‘cakes are created equal. Collin Street Bakery has some yummy varieties. And if you don’t care for the neon “fruit” in most ‘cakes, you might like Alton Brown’s Free Range Fruitcake. It’s made with dried, not candied, fruit. My health conscious husband thought it tasted pretty good.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:48:00 +0000

marion – what the heck is a wedding fruitcake? i would certainly complain at the suggestion of fruitcake involved in my wedding. eggnog however, yum.