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January 2012 Holidays & Events
National Hot Tea Month

  • 1 - New Year's
  • 6 - Epiphany
  • 16 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • 23 - Chinese New Year

February 2011 Holidays & Events
National Cherry Month

  • 1 - National Freedom Day
  • 2 - Groundhog Day
  • 8 - Boy Scout Day
  • 12 - Lincoln's Birthday
  • 14 - Valentine's Day
  • 21 - President's Day
  • 21 - Mardi Gras - Fat Tuesday
  • 21 - Washington's Birthday
  • 22 - Ash Wednesday

March 2011 Holidays & Events
National Flour Month

  • 8 - Purim
  • 11 - Daylight Savings Time Begins
  • 17 - St. Patrick's Day
  • 20 - Spring Equinox

April 2011 Holidays & Events
National Pecan Month

  • 1 - April Fool's Day
  • 1 - Palm Sunday
  • 6 - Good Friday
  • 7 - First Day of Passover
  • 8 - Easter Sunday
  • 14 - Last Day of Passover
  • 22 - Earth Day
  • 27 - Arbor Day

May 2011 Holidays & Events
National Strawberry Month

  • 1 - May Day
  • 3 - National Day of Prayer
  • 5 - Cinco de Mayo
  • 13 - Mother's Day
  • 19 - Armed Forces Day
  • 27 - Pentacost
  • 27 - Shavuot
  • 28 - Memorial Day

June 2011 Holidays & Events
National Candy Month

  • 14 - Flag Day
  • 17 - Father's Day
  • 20 - Summer Solstice
  • 24 - St. Jean Baptiste Day

July 2011 Holidays & Events
National Ice Cream Month

  • 1 - Canada Day
  • 4 - Fourth of July (US Independence Day)
  • 20 - Ramadan Begins
  • 22 - Parent's Day

August 2011 Holidays & Events

  • 19 - National Aviation Day

September 2011 Holidays & Events
National Honey Month

  • 3 - Labor Day
  • 9 - Grandparent's Day
  • 17 - Rosh Hashanah Begins
  • 22 - Fall Equinox
  • 26 - Yom Kippur

October 2011 Holidays & Events
National Cookie Month
National Dessert Month

  • 1 - First Day of Sukkot
  • 7 - Last Day of Sukkot
  • 8 - Columbus Day
  • 8 - Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
  • 20 - Sweetest Day
  • 31 - Halloween

November 2011 Holidays & Events

  • 1 - All Saints' Day
  • 4 - Daylight Savings Ends
  • 6 - Election Day
  • 11 - Veterans Day
  • 22 - Thanksgiving Day

December 2011 Holidays & Events

  • 7 - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
  • 9 -1st Day of Hanukkah
  • 21 - Winter Solstice
  • 24 - Christmas Eve
  • 25 - Christmas Day
  • 26 - Boxing Day
  • 26 - Kwanzaa
  • 31 - New Year's Eve


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2012

Winter

January - New Year

New year for new things to try, new resolutions to keep, and new goals to strive for. Here, I'm working on the same things. There are a ton of new products I'm itching to try in the world of sugar craft, as well as new books to read (like The Sweets of Araby, a new read from Countryman Press).

Goals and resolutions kind of merge into similar things, so for this year, I'm not doing any resolutions, and instead focusing on goals that I want to accomplish. I've found for some reason goals are easier to stick to by simple methods of deduction whereas resolutions sometimes seem unattainable. We'll see how many of my 'goals' I can reach by years end. :)

Enjoy the season, and thanks for your patronage!

Renee.

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Plain Chocolate Caramels

Plain Chocolate Caramels
This recipe is from Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes, a little chocolate cookbook printed in 1909.

  • 2 1/2 cups of sugar
  • 3/4 cup of glucose (pure corn syrup)
  • 1/2 cup of butter
  • 1/8 teaspoonful of cream of tartar
  • 2 1/2 cups of whole milk, (not skimmed)
  • 2 1/2 squares of Baker's Chocolate
  • 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract

Put the sugar, glucose, butter, cream of tartar and one cup of the milk over the fire, stir constantly, and when the mass has boiled a few moments, gradually stir in the rest of the milk. Do not let the mixture stop boiling while the milk is being added. Stir every few moments and cook to 248° F., or, until when tested in cold water, a hard ball may be formed; add the chocolate and vanilla and beat them thoroughly through the candy, then turn it into two bread pans. When nearly cold cut into squares.

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In Season: Now is the time to look for these fruit and vegetables in season. This list may differ from what you have locally available:

  • grapes
  • pomegranate
  • tomatoes
  • pumpkin, squash
  • blackberries, mulberries
  • stone fruits
  • beets
  • apples, pears
  • carrots
  • pineapple

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Lost Recipes

A favorite hobby of mine is to collect historic and out of print pastry cookbooks. From my collection, here is another entry all about ratafias.

Two orginal recipes:

"Ratafia d'Œillets. --The petals of clove pinks, with the white parts pulled off, four pounds, cinnamon and clovesproof spirit one gallon, sugar three pounds. Infuse for a month, filter, and bottle."

"Vespetro. --Coriander seed one ounce, angelica seed two ounces, fennel and anise-seed of each two drachms, two lemons, two oranges, the zest of two citrons, two quarts of rectified spirit and two pounds of sugar, caraway seeds, yellow rind of the lemons and oranges, and squeeze the juice and sugar in a pint of water. Infuse the whole together for fourteen days. Strain, filter, and bottle."

Read here for more old-style recipes for ratafias.

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