Catherine Jessee is an Assistant Digital Food Editor at Southern Living. She is a writer, editor, and recipe developer with a passion for Appalachian foodways, culture, and history. Prior to joining ...

Morgan McCabe Times correspondent Dec 11, 2024 Dec 11, 2024 0 English Christmas Pudding, also known as Plum or Figgy Pudding. “We always had a Christmas Pudding, every year,” said Alan Ó Cléirigh, ...

I recently acquired my Grandma Evelyn’s tin recipe box. As I flipped through and sorted the recipes written in sometimes barely legible cursive on yellowing and water-stained index cards, I began to ...

Especially Melissa Clark’s brandied pumpkin pie, a New York Times Cooking classic with five stars and over 2,000 reviews. By Mia Leimkuhler Melissa Clark’s brandied pumpkin pie.Credit...Christopher ...

The classic fruitcake gets a lot of disrespect, particularly in the United States. Many of these hard-as-rocks concoctions -- which are full of preservatives and studded with bizarrely colored candied ...

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In Springfield, a couple will celebrate their golden anniversary, with the main attraction being the topper of their original wedding cake. WYSO’s Kathryn Mobley sat down with John and Janet Dobson to ...

Janet and John Dobson will celebrate their 50th anniversary Dec. 22 by eating a piece of their wedding cake, a fruitcake they have preserved for decades since tying the knot. >> READ THEIR STORY: ...

What would the holidays be without jokes about fruitcake — that it’s leaden, dry and hard, better used as a doorstop or dumbbell than served as dessert? While it’s arguably appropriate to malign ...

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