Who's cooking / baking for the holidays?
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I took the Christmas cake that I made in October out of its tin today. 14.5 lbs of boozy goodness. I broadened the scope of the picture so wtg can see my ceramic tree.
Yesterday I made a Cherry-Walnut cake that someone on the overnight thread I visit posted last week. I haven't had this cake since I was a child.
A few days ago I made fondant centers for chocolates. I'd better dip them today. Wintergreen, Maple (I know, sickly color, but they'll look better in chocolate), and orange.
This year I made my Tourtière pie filling in October and froze it. Got to remember to take it out of the freezer today.... in fact I'm going to do that now!
The industrial revolution cheapened everything.
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Christmas dinner at @bernard 's!! All the goodies look fabulous, in particular the Christmas cake.
We're having our Lithuanian Kūčios (Christmas Eve dinner) tonight. Various types of herring, beet and bean salad, Salad Olivier, šližikai, (poppy seed biscuits with poppy seed milk), and kisielius (cranberry kissel). Tomorow is a bit up in the air.
Lithuanian Christmas traditions:
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My sister is smoking 18 lbs of prime rib on her Traeger tomorrow. The family is pot lucking the rest; I’m hosting at my house. I’m only responsible for roasted brussels sprouts (with Chinese sausage!) and a flourless chocolate torte. A friend is bringing mashed potatoes, another sister is bringing sweet potato gratin and mini oreo cheesecakes. My brother always brings a shrimp ring for before…
But we’ll also have our kids over for brunch first! Bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon, capers…scrambled eggs, mimosas, presents.
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I took the Christmas cake that I made in October out of its tin today. 14.5 lbs of boozy goodness. I broadened the scope of the picture so wtg can see my ceramic tree.
Yesterday I made a Cherry-Walnut cake that someone on the overnight thread I visit posted last week. I haven't had this cake since I was a child.
A few days ago I made fondant centers for chocolates. I'd better dip them today. Wintergreen, Maple (I know, sickly color, but they'll look better in chocolate), and orange.
This year I made my Tourtière pie filling in October and froze it. Got to remember to take it out of the freezer today.... in fact I'm going to do that now!
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@Bernard It all looks fabulous. Really 14.5 pounds of boozy cake? That’s almost like a packed box of salmon roe from my cannery days! (20 lbs, but hey)
@AdagioM said in Who's cooking / baking for the holidays?:
Really 14.5 pounds of boozy cake?
Yeah, out of curiosity I weighed it. It's full of fruit, armagnac, sherry, and marsala.
It sounds like you are having quite a feast!
