Always for some of us there is a month, and a day of the month, and an hour of the day when life is sadder colored than its usual wont, when we have need to lay hold of strength that is greater than ours, and when, indeed, we enter into our closets, and shut our…
Author: Amalia
Aenisguetzli: A Traditional Swiss Christmas Cookie Recipe
Aenisguetzli, mailanderli, schweizer schenkeli, brazeli. The names of Swiss Christmas cookies don’t exactly trip off the tongues of most Americans and I doubt many have eaten them, either. I grew up very ‘Murican–through and through. It wasn’t as if my family wouldn’t have enjoyed generational traditions, it’s just that our ancestors apparently took the whole…
A Thanksgiving Day Feast: a Menu from 1888
As the days of chill November creep along, the busy housewife ever on the alert, thinks of the coming anniversary, our national Thanksgiving; and recognizing all the causes for thankfulness enumerated in the presidential proclamation–her own heart, meanwhile, glowing with gratitude and pleasure as she thinks of the coming reunion of dear friends, remote and…
Free (and Almost Free) Vintage Christmas Stories
This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. Here we are again, on the verge of the Christmas season. However, to be perfectly honest, in this home, the Christmas season runs from November 1st to January 1st. My goal is to jam-pack the two months with Christmas music, lights, movies, food, and…