Holiday Recipes and Sugar Cookie Recipe

Need a new recipe or want spice up your holiday meal? Get ideas and recipes from our online databases – Culture Grams and Global Road Warriors.

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In CultureGrams choose any search choice – World Edition, States Edition, Kids Edition, Provinces Edition (Canada). There is a link to recipe collections at the top of each page. For example, see recipe for Stuffies from Rhode Island, Pomegranate Salad from Nevada, Arroz Con Gandules from Puerto Rico, Colcannon from Ireland, Fish Pepper Soup from Nigeria, etc.

Sample From Ireland:

Fruit Cake

Ingredients:

8 ounces butter
8 ounces sugar
3 eggs
3/4 teaspoon almond extract
3 tablespoons golden syrup
3 ounces finely ground almonds
4 cups unbleached white flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch salt
12 ounces milk
2 cups golden raisins
2 1/2 cups currants
Zest of 3 oranges
Zest of 2 lemons

Directions:

1. Cream butter with sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each addition. Beat in the syrup, almond extract, and ground almonds.
2. Reserving 1/2 cup of the flour, sieve the remainder with baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with the milk, beating well after each addition.
3. Coat raisins and currants with reserved flour and fold into batter along with orange and lemon zest.
4. Mix well and pour into a well-buttered and floured tube pan, distributing batter evenly. Bake at 300°F for 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours. Let pan cool for 45 minutes and then turn out onto wire rack to cool further.

Hint:

Golden syrup is a sweet syrup often used in dessert recipes in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere, but it can be hard to find in North America. One substitute is corn syrup with a touch of molasses. Using straight molasses or honey as a substitute will not produce ideal results.

In Global Road Warrior choose a country, then Society & Culture from the main categories and recipes will be included there.

Example from Puerto Rico:

NISPEROS DE BATATA (DESSERT)

Nisperos de Batata

Grated coconut, orange juice, nutmeg, and other ingredients can also be added to these sweets.
Recipe Serving: Serves 8–10

Ingredients

• 2 lbs (900 g) white sweet potatoes, cut into chunks
• 1 1/2 qt (1.5 l) water
• 1 tsp (5 ml) salt
• 3/4 cup (180 ml) undiluted fresh coconut milk (the amount in approximately 2 large ripe coconuts)
• 3 cups (720 ml) sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 3 tbsp (45 ml) ground cinnamon
• 3 dozen whole cloves

Instructions

Put the sweet potato in water and salt, cover, and cook over moderate heat for about 40 minutes, or until fork-tender. Drain, peel, and immediately put through a ricer.

1. Add coconut milk, sugar, and egg yolk and mix well.
2. Put mixture into a heavy pot and bring it to a boil, stirring constantly.
3. After a boil is reached, lower the heat to moderate and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture does not stick to the sides of the pot.
4. Remove the mixture, let it cool slightly, and shape it into small balls.
5. Dust the balls with ground cinnamon and garnish each ball with a whole clove.

Sugar Cookies (About 5 dozen) Recipe is a family recipe from 1940s. Best Christmas Cookie ever. We made them as children to give to cousins as Christmas gifts. Great project to do as a family.(Kathy Nye, Editor - The Yocum Library Blog)

What are the ingredients for this recipe?
1/2 cup Fat (Butter)
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
1/2 Tablespoon Vanilla
1 Tablespoon Milk
2 cups Flour (sift before measuring) That is what is says..recipe before you could buy sifted flour.
2 Teaspoons baking powder
1/2 Teaspoon salt

How do you prepare the recipe?
1. Cream the fat until soft.
2. Add sugar gradually, creaming thoroughly.
3. Beat egg and add.
4.Add flavoring.
5. add milk.
6.Sift part of the flour, with the baking powder and salt, and add to the sugar mixture.
7. Add remaining flour until mixture is stiff enough to roll after chilling.
8.Roll dough to about 1/8 inch on a lightly floured board.
9.Cut with a cookie cutter.
10. Bake on a greased baking sheet in a moderately hot oven (375 degrees) for 5-8 minutes.
11. Remove cookies from sheet as soon as they are taken from the oven.

Serving suggestions and other comments
Before putting them in the oven, these cookies may be brushed with egg white and sprinkled with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Or, decorate with sprinkles, jimmies or other decorations before putting in the oven.