An Old-Fashioned Christmas: Sweet Traditions for Hearth and Home, by Ellen Stimson
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An Old-Fashioned Christmas: Sweet Traditions for Hearth and Home, by Ellen Stimson
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Celebrate the beauty and charm of the holidays with recipes for traditional food and drink, decorating ideas, and heartwarming stories With its trademark snow, piney forests, sleigh rides and woodsmoke curling out of village chimneys, New England was practically invented for the Christmas postcard. It's got your Christmas goose and the maple syrup you are gonna use to glaze it. It's most of the reason author Ellen Stimson made Vermont her home. Here she shares recipes that have been in her family for generations, mixes up a cocktail or two, and invites readers to make their own traditions. 75 color photographs
An Old-Fashioned Christmas: Sweet Traditions for Hearth and Home, by Ellen Stimson- Amazon Sales Rank: #435746 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x .90" w x 8.30" l, 1.74 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
From the Back Cover "I've been a little uneasy about Christmas for a long time and now I shall stop. 'A festival of debauchery'. I like that idea. A big party. Cut out the stuff you don't enjoy. And a whole raft of stimulating recipes and a good snowstorm. Wonderful."---- Garrison Keillor host of A Prairie Home Companion
About the Author Ellen Stimson is a bread and butter homecook ... possibly more butter than bread. Her house and table are usually full to overflowing with friends, family, and a whole bunch of folks who have come to Vermont just to eat at her table and listen to her stories. During one particularly misguided period, she churned out her justifiably famous mac and cheese from the kitchen of what was possibly the oldest country store in America. That tale was told in the hilarious bestselling Mud Season. She cooks and writes about the whole divine and delicious catastrophe from a farmhouse in Vermont.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Love and Laughter and Good Food at Christmas By Foster Corbin I hardly know what to say about this book. No review-- at least one from me-- can do it justice. And while I understand that Ellen Stimson may be the high priestess of the English language, selecting Natalie Stultz for her photographer was a stroke of genius on her part. These color photographs of the food, the Christmas ornaments, the winter-wonderland of Vermont, this zany family, their pets-- you want to return to them again and again. Ms. Stimson is a master at making her family's Christmas memories remind you of yours:. There is so much that she has to say about the Christmas season that made me homesick. Case in point: I tasted hot buttered rum for the first time so long ago in Kansas City, Missouri; and this family lived in St. Louis before they moved their clan of children, other animals and books to Vermont. My friend with whom I first tasted that heavenly drink has long since left this earth. And I still own the mugs that I bought to drink the rum in on those frigid Midwestern nights. Ms. Stimson includes the recipe for the drink that Atlanta winters don’t welcome as “Todd and Natascha’s Friend Amy’s Hot Buttered Rum.”The author includes literally dozens of recipes that she has collected over the years. She says her recipes and simple and easy. (I suspect they are for her.) I’m sure you will find several you want to try, or better still, get someone who loves you to make them for you. I was taken with “John’s Famous Chili,” “Decadent Mac’ n’ Cheese,” and "Guinness Beef Stew." But desserts are what a meal is all about so I moved on to “Cardamon Tapioca Pudding,” “Salted Caramel Turtles,” “Coffee Cream Puffs” and “Maple Pecan Cookies.” (Some of us advocate eating dessert first in case the house catches fire.) And Ms. Stimson probably has a potential fight on her hands with her fried chicken recipe. Every Southern cook I have ever known swears on her great-grandmother’s grave that she has the definite and only such recipe.Then there is all that talk about the ornaments (with those outrageously beautiful close-up photos of them). Ms. Stimson opens her so accessible book with this sentence: "The ornaments are the first things I would save in a fire." Each family member selects a new one every year as they make a trek to buy ornaments. But the author reminds us that "good rules, after all, are like good recipes. They are mostly just guides." You sort of have to make up the rules as you go if your littlest child sees two ornaments he cannot live without. I found the family's solution both practical and, what is more important, loving. And that white star that always is the first ornament to make it to the top of the tree each year, an ornament that has sustained several repairs throughout the years, an ornament that always beams this happy family in when they glimpse the shining tree from the window as they approach their house after dark. And of course you console a seventeen-year-old daughter who has just broken up with a boyfriend by getting her a new puppy.Ms. Stimson has a great quotation near the end of this treasure trove that most of us would probably live by:“I guess I’ll want to spend mine [old age] pretty much the way I always have. I’ll want to cook and wrap presents and sit by the fire with the people and animals I love who love me right back.”While this sort of book gets published all over the place, I predict that .AN OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS will set the standard by which the others are judged. It's quite a book. I want to send it to everyone I love.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Dive into the Holidays with this Wonderful Book By Arizona Book Lover I've never really understood the trend of writing stories inside cookbooks because frankly I'm not interested in the first time the author cooked a particular dish or why, I just want the recipe. But, Ellen Stimson's new book, "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" has recipes inside a marvelous and funny story book. And bonus, these recipes look amazing. I am seriously considering doing a "Julie and Julia" type attempt at cooking every dish in this book over the next year. Seriously...I am dying to get to those braised short ribs!I grew up in Michigan and fondly remember those long cold winters where a bowl of stew was magic and a cup of hot chocolate was the stuff of dreams. I now live in Arizona and therefore can only live vicariously through others. Ellen's book makes me long for those days when I would sit on a stool and watch my grandmother cook or bake. I want to put on my fuzziest socks and dance around my kitchen to Christmas tunes as I prepare that decadent macaroni and cheese to go along with the root beer pulled pork. I can almost taste that homemade coleslaw now.Beyond the recipes, Ellen shares her fondest Christmas memories of family, traditions, love, and laughter that surrounded her home and table. And finally, the photography is spectacular. Oh how I long for a horse drawn sleigh ride accompanied by the sun and a thermos full of homemade hot chocolate. Every ornament featured is lovely and reminiscent to my own childhood and the photo of the Christmas tree on page 263 is swoon worthy as that magnificent tree is surrounded by my favorite thing: books!Well done Ellen Stimson on bringing us another brilliant book that makes me long to leave the desert and find my own piece of country paradise.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A real " feel good" book By Linda Prospero This book wasn't what I expected. It was far better. I ordered it, having read and loved Ellen's "Mud Season," and was expecting a "Christmas decorating a la Currier and Ives-meets Martha Stewart" kind of book. But what I got was a group of heartwarming, funny family stories accompanied by recipes that had me wanting to grab the nearest rolling pin or plan a party and make beef tenderloin with gorgonzola sauce. The recipes are unfussy but delicious, and some of them are so retro you might wonder when the jello mold will appear. Well, it doesn't, but a dynamite Brady bunch cheese ball that I'm sure I'll make, does. The writing is clever but not contrived. You feel like you're almost having a conversation with her, it's so natural. Ellen has a gift for a good turn of phrase, and keeps you engaged. I got the book this afternoon and read it straight through. Once you read it, you'll wish you had started making your own "Christmas Adventure" years ago ( read the book to learn what that is). She makes you wish you lived in Vermont at Christmas, where you'd be invited to her parties, or go sledding together. She makes you want to call up that elderly aunt or grandmom and hold a cooking session to learn her secret recipe. She makes you think about spreading the Christmas cheer to not just the humans you love, but to your furry friends as well (doggie treat recipes included, although some sound delicious for humans too). I also love the way the book was organized, with explanations and lovely photos about the multitude of Christmas ornaments collected through the years, and the stories behind them. It's a real "feel good" book. Maybe I can't go sledding with Ellen down that snow covered trail, but I sure can come inside on a cold day and prepare her recipe for hot chocolate or maple bacon popcorn. I bought the book for myself, but I have a few friends and family members who will also find this book under the tree on Christmas.
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