| AR1920 - 12/24/2024 12:26
For some reason I started thinking about all the sweet treats that we always had at our Christmas celebrations of years past and realized that we don't have them anymore.
Some of what I remember are: Hard candy, like cinnamon and a toffee chocolate similar to Heath Bars.
Cookies, there must have been a dozen different types like Springerlies and some kind of a yellow type that us kids would decorate but there wasn't always a lot of those because the raw batter was so good that we ate way more of that than we should have. Some type that you would push a chocolate drop into the middle of that I think had peanutbutter as an ingredient.
Sugar cookies (we still have those because the wife has the old family recipe and it's amazing).
Pies: Always Pumkin and Pecan. We still do the Pumkin. Datenut Rolls were always a tradition too.
Seems like there was always a cake or two including a Fruitcake (yuck don't miss that).
Anyway, around here we have narrowed the sweet selection pretty much down to the Sugar cookies and the Pumkin pie and maybe a frozen keylime or whatever is on sale.
Just wondering what you remember having as a child and if that tradition has kind of faded away with the older generation?
Merry Christmas everyone!
You are not alone in these thoughts..My wife has a year round Christmas store. The people who come in for the most part, Crave nostalgia. My wife keeps her store old school also, the old Hard candy that stuck together, peonut brittle,free hot chocolate. her store is in an old bank building that was built in 1911.. local artisans build her nostalgic pieces of metal art,or blown glass etc. tons of xmas decor from the ww2 era and before.. lots of german made stuff also. she loves doing it and the old time vibe you get is still there when you go through the door.So its not all lost |
Christmas Sweets Traditions Gone?
