From The Olde Cookery Book
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Welcome to The Olde Cookery Book
Just past "Lucia" and being brought up on both English and Swedish Christmas traditions, both baked ham and the celebrated Christmas pudding were present in my childhood home. The Christmas (or generally Plum) pudding is known since the 17th century - although precursors naturally were known as early as the 1400s. According to Wikipedia, the origin of the pudding were not as a dessert, but as a way of preserving meat in times where preservation techniques were not as advanced (for good and bad) as they are today.
The familly joke was that a plum pudding (we used the term as equal to Christmas pudding) contained just about everything but plums. As a case of point you could do worse than checking out this list of ingredients of the pudding. We will ofcourse try to add a few traditional pudding recipes in the few days up to the big event!
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Recent changes:
- 2009 01 02 Substantial update of the Rålamb project. Recipes will follow on wiki.
- 2008 12 19 Bills of Fare and recipe from The Queen-like Closet added
- 2008 12 12 Updates of recipes and the Rålamb project.
- 2008 12 07 Blog update and recipes.
- 2008 11 28 More recipes added.
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| Glögg - THE winter drink in Sweden
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| Winter is here. Snow is falling and it is dark and cold outside. This time a year it is nice to light a fire, put a CD in the player and have something warm to drink. The number one winter drink in Sweden is Glögg, a spicy hot wine drink.
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Did you know...
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| Sweet-Meats
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| The term sweetmeats usually refers to candy or sweet confections. It has often been shortened simply to sweets, as in “Sweets to the Sweet.” Sweetmeats likely first began as a way of preserving fruit and/or nuts with sugar. Since sugars act as a preservative, the process of making candied fruit or nuts might aid in keeping some food items past the point when they would naturally decay.
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Some of the latest recipes
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Some of the latest bills of fare
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