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From December 1 through the New Year, Jane Hopping’s anecdotes of rural life and wonderful recipes evoke the feasts and celebrations that enliven the most joyful time of the year. Includes complete menus, baked goods and desserts. Photos and line drawings.

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Come and spend some time with us, making memories! In Homespun Christmas, we bring you some of our very best recipes…cranberry chicken, sweet potato bake, eggnog bread, merry berry sour cream cake, chocolate snowball truffles and apple-pecan upside-down pie. Filled with memories, heartfelt gifts to give and beautiful line illustrations. (9-1/4″ x 6-1/2″)

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Gooseberry Patch was created by Jo Ann Martin & Vickie Hutchins 15 years ago. “A Country Store in your Mailbox” is a mail-order catalog of over 400 items including Santas, cookie cutters, memory candles, nostalgic holiday decorations and original cookbooks filled with treasured recipes, decorating ideas and simple how-to’s.

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Who doesn’t dream of a more relaxed, less frantic Christmas season? Everyone wants to avoid last-minute preparations, a sense of rush and flurried planning. For all of the holiday-challenged, there is a better way. Good Housekeeping Christmas Joys offers not only delicious recipes and beautiful decorating and craft ideas but also strategies for a relaxing holiday — with time to enjoy the season. There are presentation ideas to make a home especially inviting: a spice tree, an acorn wreath, cinnamon candles, hand-painted angels. And the recipes are mouthwatering: smoked salmon boats, Christmas quesadillas, the perfect roast turkey, and, of course, lots of Christmas cookie recipes.

Along with great recipes and decorations that will make any home look great for the holidays, Good Housekeeping Christmas Joys includes practical tips for holiday safety — caring for the Christmas tree, safe ways to use candles in the home, and how to check electrical outlets.

Christmas should be a joy — and with this book, it will be!

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‘If you would like to set about making your own (untroubled) Christmas memories, the eminently collectible Christmas Sweets is a good place to start. This delectable keepsake from Chronicle Books contains recipes, decorations, and gift ideas concocted by Georgeanne Brennan, photographed by Richard G. Jung, and artfully brought together by Jennifer Barry. Ms. Brennan’s recipes inject reality into the fantasy of the season.’The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2007

‘Ms. Brennan’s recipes inject reality into the fantasy of the season. ‘Many people do not like the bright red, green and yellow candied or glaceed fruits found in fruitcake,’ she wrote. Her updated recipe for Bite-Sized Dark Rum Fruitcakes replaces the citron with dried apricots, dates, currants and raisins: problem solved.’&mdashThe New York Times, December 16, 2008

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Christmas Sweets transforms the holiday table into a winter wonderland! From boxes of homemade candy brimming with Chocolate Fudge or Almond-Butter Toffee to cookie jars filled with Pecan Lace Cookies or Apricot-Pistachio Bars, this collection of recipes and decorations will make gift-giving extra sweet this year. Beautifully illustrated with gorgeous color photography, each festive project celebrates the season and offers inspiring craft ideas using sweets both homemade and store bought. Holiday guests will delight in stealing a treat from a Candy Wreath and getting caught under the Candy Acorn Kissing Ball. With homemade gingerbread confections presented in a spectacular, wintry Gingerbread Cookie Box, Santa will never settle for cookies again.

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Quack Up Your Holidays!

Are you longing for the festive twinkling of holiday lights but yours are tangled and on the blink? Ready to wrap your Christmas gifts but can’t remember where you hid them? Would you like to get your friends together for a holiday open house but don’t know when you’d find the time or what you’d serve them? Relax. Or, as Jeanne Bice, founder of The Quacker Factory says, “Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle!”

Jeanne Bice, known to millions of fans as “the Head Quack” of the clothing line, The Quacker Factory, and designer-crafter extraordinaire, is here to show you how to make your home fittingly festive without the fuss. With the home-spun charm that has made her one of QVC’s most popular on-air guests, she will help you add sparkle to your season, whether you’ve been hosting holidays for years or don’t know which end of the turkey is up.

If you’re looking for appetizers that break the ice without breaking your back, are stuck on what to make for the holiday bake sale (again!), searching for the perfect gift while avoiding the mad rush at the mall, or just wanting to add more joy to your season, Jeanne has the advice and inspiration.

In addition to over a hundred family-favorite recipes, she shares simple Quacker-style decorating ideas along with complete menus for hosting themed parties, including a Crock-Pot Caroling Party, a Trim-a-Tree Party, a Cookie Exchange, and a Christmas Dinner Extraordinaire. From her never-fail no-lumps gravy and outrageous stuffing to original twists on old stand-bys like sweet potato casserole and corn cheese bake, you’ll be ready to entertain with poise and pizzazz.

With charming artwork and stunning photography, this all-in-one guide gives you everything you need to create fabulous holiday gatherings and the magical memories that go with them.

About the Author

Jeanne Bice is the funny, warm and vivacious self-made success of the Quacker Factory. When she began selling her clothes on QVC in 1996, she barely had two pennies to rub together. When she made her TV debut, she sold out her entire inventory in minutes and has since become one of QVC’s most popular guests. She has appeared on Good Morning America and ABC News, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and others. Having relocated from Wisconsin to south Florida, she is a living example that you truly can create a traditional white Christmas even if you’re surrounded by palm trees and 80 degree weather.

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Revised & Expanded
Includes Scandinavian, Czech, Polish, German, Italian, Scottish, & Moravian Christmas traditions. In this Christmas smorgasbord, two dozen Midwest writers, natives or residents tell what Christmas has meant to them from pioneer days to the present.
Perfect bound, 9×6″

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Stories to inspire, crafts to decorate the home, gingerbread houses of all sorts to bake, and drinks to bring cheer to all who come by: these are just some of the ways to make Christmas very, very merry, and more than 500 of them are beautifully collected right here. How will you celebrate? Perhaps the traditional American style seems most appealing: then make a Tole Painted Nativity, whip up some delicious Hot Buttered Rum, and read “The Night Before Christmas” aloud. For a classic Victorian holiday, sing “Deck the Halls,” place a charming Violin and Cherub wreath on the door, and sip some mulled wine. Or choose the Country, Southwestern (a little salsa verde, anyone?), International, or fun-filled Not-Quite-Grown-Up style.

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“Tis the season for holiday cooking and festive foods. In Treasury of Christmas, you’ll find over 750 recipes dedicated to fine feasting and Christmas cheer, all from your favorite brand name companies.

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If the words “classic Christmas” make images of Christmas cactus, fruitcake, and roast turkey dance in your head, then Classic Crafts and Recipes for the Holidays will make all of your yuletide dreams come true.

Arranged in ten chapters with such names as “Cranberries,” “Nuts,” “Citrus,” “Leaves,” and “Pinecones,” this festive compendium of holiday ideas and recipes is certain to show you how to make every Christmas one to remember. In “Winter Berries,” berries are used to make wreaths, garlands, and centerpieces. In its own chapter, fruitcake has been reinterpreted so it will never run the risk of being left uneaten. “Leaves” shows how to make keepsake gifts out of embossed leaves and cards, and throughout the book there are clever packaging and wrapping ideas to suit every taste and budget.

From now on, when you think of a classic Christmas, you’ll think of Classic Crafts and Recipes for the Holidays.

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The majority of the recipes in this cook book originated in Germany and have been in my family for over 100 years. All are tried, tested, and true.

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Olive Royce’s kitchen was always filled with the freshness and love that only a baker could understand. This was truely ” COOKY CENTRAL”. The children are all grown now and Olive went home to the Lord, but the finest recipes will continue to be passed down for future generations.

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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.

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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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