The Family Christmas Cookbook: Best-Loved Recipes from the Christmas Annual [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

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Product Description
Recreate old-fashioned Christmas memories with foods from around the world. Readers and their families will enjoy making and tasting recipes first featured in The Christmas Annual.

The Family Christmas Cookbook contains not only interesting stories about each recipe, but also ideas for how to include children in preparing them and extra pages for adding family recipes or traditions. While bringing generations together, families can brighten the holidays with delicacies ranging from English Plum Pudding, Norwegian Sandbakkels, and Swedish Lucia Buns to Mexican Bunnuelos, Brazilian Lace Wafers, and African Kanya, all featuring updated recipes.

Published by Augsburg Fortress from 1931 to 1997, The Christmas Annual was a holiday favorite for thousands of readers. This year, start a new tradition with loved ones of all ages with The Family Christmas Cookbook.

From the Publisher
Christmas is a wonderful, magical time of the year. Involving the whole family, especially children, in traditions past or creating new ones increases the special warmth felt during this season. The Family Christmas Cookbook brings the holiday spirit to your home. It not only offers recipes for tasty treats from around the world, but also stories and poems to celebrate the rich variety of Christmas traditions worldwide. While you bake German honig kuchen, a spiced cookie, you can read about tree decorating rituals. As you knead your vörtlimpor, a dark rye bread, you will learn about the Swedish custom of Dipping Day, which originated during a famine when people survived on only bread and broth. Along with introducing you to Christmas foods and traditions from around the world, this cookbook provides helpful hints to involve children in food preparations. It also includes a special section to record your own family’s favorite recipes and traditions. Welcome Christmas in with foods and stories from The Family Christmas Cookbook!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers (July 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806648023
• ISBN-13: 978-0806648026
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,061,195 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good cookbook, October 12, 2006

By	armchairinterviews.com (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

Christmas is such a special time of the year. It's a celebration of Christ's birth, a time to connect with family and friends and of course, there's the yummy food.

Each recipe in The Family Christmas Cookbook is accompanied by a story or poem from Christmas: The Annual of Christmas Literature and Art that began in 1931 and was published for sixty-five years. The legacy begun those many years ago is continued in this global cookbook with recipes from around the world.

Smorekringle from Denmark brings memories of my Danish grandmother's kitchen at Christmas--the warmth, the fragrance of the food, the singing and storytelling. While making this delectable pastry with almond filling, read 'Blowing of the Yule.'

Coffee Braids are a sweetbread made with cardamom and originates from Finland. It's yummy and while devouring it, read the story Preparing for Christmas.

The Almond Torte is a meringue layer cake with chocolate frosting and almonds. It's mouth-watering good and originates in Serbia. The Serbian Blessing is beautiful.

And the Danish Ris Almande (sweet rice and almond pudding) gives me a rush of nostalgia for Christmases past. I want to return to my childhood and A Danish Christmas Eve Dinner. Perhaps this is a part of my heritage I can share with my grandchildren.

Oh, then there is Hogmanay Shortbread from Scotland, Sandbakkels from Scandinavia, Kourabiethes from Greece, Krumkake from Sweden & Scandinavia (one of my childhood favorites), Noche from Italy, Kanya (West Africa) and so much more. While you enjoy these scrumptious dishes, enjoy reading about the traditions and rituals of the countries where the recipes originate.

A delightful cookbook that will smack you in the face with your past--and you'll love every minute of it. Oh, and then there is the food. It's a good thing.

Armchair Interviews says: Another yummy addition to your cookbook collection.

5.0 out of 5 stars Traditions Begin Here, May 21, 2009

By	Trilby Busch "bibliophile" (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a wonderful little cookbook of Christmas recipes from many ethnic groups. Each recipe comes with a little history and background info. The photos almost make you want to eat the page. I haven't tried all the recipes, but the ones I have turned out well. If you want to make some new culinary traditions for Christmas, this is a good place to start.