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  • From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] What old homesteaders do for Christmas
  • Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:57:30 -0800 (PST)

That all sounds great Susan, and you and all of your friends are kind to the
dogs , as well. Wonderful people in too cold of weather .......

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--- On Thu, 12/25/08, sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net> wrote:

> From: sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
> Subject: [Homestead] What old homesteaders do for Christmas
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 7:30 PM
> at least here.
>
> For the past few years those of us who homestead here who
> don't have
> family nearby have gotten together on Christmas day to eat.
> Rules are
> simple: Bring enough of something you grow to feed
> everybody (we do have
> someone to call each year to be sure there's a
> variety), and if your dog
> can't get along with others, leave it home or in the
> truck.
>
> So this year we had cranberry cheddar cheese spread, whole
> wheat/sesame
> crackers,standing pork roasted (with Yorkshire--is it
> Yorkshire if made
> of pork?-- pudding), mashed potatoes, roasted parsnips,
> sweet potatoes,
> green beans, creamed cute teeny little onions,
> corn/hazelnut stuffing
> for the pork, butter, blueberry wine, a really good white
> grape wine,
> cherry brandy, and brandied-blueberry stollen. Of the
> whole thing, the
> stollen had cardamom and everything else, including the
> wheats this
> year, came from right here in the county. So we "done
> good"....it's
> always fun to remind ourselves just how good growing can be
> right here,
> where we are. The warm house was overfull of people (12)
> and dogs (8)
> but a good time was had by all. People and dogs all went
> home full and
> happy.
>
> SJ
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