Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Gooseberry Wine
Karen Helen S. Wright, my paternal grandmother and author of Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines, took quite a shine to gooseberry wine and includes eight in her book. She…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: American Champagne
My paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, must have been fond of champagne as she collected several recipes for her book, Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines published in 1909.…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wine: Apple Wine
When fall comes we can look forward to apples and apples mean pies, cider, and perhaps, wine. My paternal grandmother, Helen S. Wright, author of the book Old Time Recipes…
Old Time Recipe for Holiday Apple Wine
With a fresh crops of apples at hand during the holidays what could be better than an old fashioned apple wine made the way it was done over 100 years…
Holiday Feast: Five Great Side Dishes for Duck
I recently came upon this great article by Jamie Highland that gives directions for five delicious sides to serve with duck at Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. The directions are simple…
Sweet Potatoes for Thanksgiving: Try Something New
You don’t recommend sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, right? Many American families all over the United States, but especially in the South, have a sweet potato side on the holiday table,…
Seven Interesting Facts about Sugar Plums
Christmas Eve evokes many pleasant memories in our minds and one of them is sugar plums. Tchaikovsky had a sugar plum fairy in The Nutcracker and Clement C Moore had…
Wine for Christmas Dinner: Dry Riesling
When the Christmas table is covered with many different dishes of food it can be difficult to decide what wine might best go with them all. Why not try a…
Gewurztraminer Wine for Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving dinner is usually traditional with turkey and/or ham so why not swing out a little with the wine that accompanies it? (See Wine Pairing at TastedOnline.com) For a special…
How to Prepare Horseradish
The tastiest treat in my fall-winter garden is horseradish. It is certainly not the most attractive plant any time of the year but it more than makes up for its…