I seem to be living in the past. I still make the spice cake, fruit cake (my dad & for my friends who like it),ambrosia salad, chestnut and oyster stuffing, divinity, popcorn strings, gingerbread houses, sugar cut out cookies,
I make Watergate salad. Pistachio instant pudding Mini marshmallows about a cup 1 cool whip A can of crushed pineapple not drained I used unsweetened because the cool whip is sweet Mix it all together. So fast to make. Refrigerate it. Dot it with maraschino cherries if u want. Very good
Gee lady, where do you live? We live in the Midwest where ambrosia salad and lime Jello with cottage cheese are alive and well in Wisconsin! We’re the cranberry capital of America, too; look on the plastic bags of fresh cranberries. There are many specialty food catalogues which sell all kinds of yummy fruitcakes, too😋
I am from Wisconsin also my family and other families I know makes ambrosia salad and a lot items I seen on this list is still around like minced meat pie and coffee cake and fruitcake. The lady I'm thinking is in some very large city like LA
I'm from Oklahoma and our family still makes ambrosia and allot of the recipes in this video also. I even make my egg noodles from scratch, it's amazing how much better they taste than the frozen ones
I still make Divinity (with my husband's assistance), which is considered a type of fudge where I live in Canada. Perfect Divinity has finely chopped cherries in it. Seafoam is divinity made with brown sugar. We've burned out a few electric mixers in the process - but it's worth it!
I love Claxton Fruit Cake ibuy 3 bricks every year I used to make the best Divinity but can no longer make it because of my health. I do still make my Ambrosia Salad that everyone loves, there is never any leftovers. Happy Holidays Everyone 🎁🎁🎁🌲🌲🌲
@@PeggyReid-l1g. My family loved a brand that was sold in the Midwest area called Manor Fruit cake, it didn’t have any of the bitter citron in it. It was made with candied cherries red and green, candied pineapple, pecans all held together with a golden cake batter. They were heavy with the fruit and expensive and you kept it in the tin with lid that it was sold in, we put it in the refrigerator and it kept well, we cut thin slices and enjoyed it very much at Christmas. My mother-in-law made the best divinity. She would make some especially for me because I complimented her and raved about how good it was, unfortunately she is gone now. I love corn pudding too, everything you are talking about were our holiday foods and I still like these things.
I used to think that too until my friend gifted me a fruitcake for Christmas from Collin Street Bakery in Texas. At first I said oh crap, but then I tasted it. Their fruitcake is like no other; they are delicious! I now look forward to her sending me one every year. 😊
@ I forgot about those I had one of those several years ago and it was very much like the Manor fruitcake. Thanks for reminding me. I will have to order one of those, you are right they are very good. I was called Patty too growing up!
My mom and dad made Divinity every Christmas season. My mom learned from her Dutch/German mom in MN. I called it Divorce Divinity! We lived steps away from the ocean. The weather played a big role in how the Divinity set up. I hid in my bedroom as my parents argued over the right timing. Once finished, they were as happy as newlyweds with their new baby and the relatives ate every crumb. On the other hand, I shutter very time I think about it!
@@nancychristie7567 Never on rainy days. I made chocolate Covered cherries,also maple nut creams. They had to sit for 6 weeks. Learned that from our old candy and ice cream store in Findlay. Deitschs.
I would choose corn pudding over green bean casserole any time! My grandmother made it often, as did my mother. I don't cook much, but I still make corn pudding. Yum!!
I still make divinity. My mom makes jello salad mold. I make cranberry relish. I’m not big on fruit cake but we eat Stollen. My mother in law makes corn pudding. 😂😂. Not all have gone by the way side.
I still make jello salads, though I seldom use molds anymore. I make ambrosia often. I always bought divinity and ribbon candy. Cranberry relish is one of my specialities. I use jello and chopped pecans, fresh berries, canned oranges (rinse the syrup off because it interferes with the jelling process) thawed frozen strawberries (treat like the oranges) finely chopped apples, chopped celery, and mini marshmallows. I provide cool whip as a topping if you want it. Make sure you have enough jello. All of the additions need more jello to set. The stuff that comes in a can is an abomination in my family.
Real divinity is magnificent,i😅 never learned to make it but my mom did when i was young,she also baked cherry winks that were cookies made with cornflakes❤,i miss her,my dad and my brother ❤
Pecan Divinity … Oh, the memories …. traveling to grandmas as a little girl and we would stop half way at a Stuckeys Restaurant. Mom would buy a box of pecan divinity and I would always get a delicious vanilla milkshake!
I am 75 and except for Tom and Jerry's, corn pudding, plum pudding, ginger bread houses, and boars head, I have had all of these, either made or bought by my family or my wifes family. I still make egg nog or what we call rum pie, and grasshopper pie is on the menu list this year. I also make cranberry relish made with canned whole cranberries, drained crushed pineapple and crushed pecans or walnuts in gelatin. My family loves it. Two Christmas treats that my mother used to make were creme puffs and baked Alaska. My grandmother made the candied orange peel but then dipped the finished peel in dark chocolate. She was also a big fan of divinity, making it several times a year. She loved peppermint divinity but as she grew older the family was a bit leary of trying some, as she was getting forgetful. It wasn't that she forgot an ingredient, she sometimes forgot that she had already added it. Such was the case once when she added THREE times the amount of peppermint that was required. Because while making the divinity she was called to the phone and also had to let the dog out forgetting each time that she had already added the mint. As it was my uncle and I came to her house to do some chores just as the divinity had cooled and was ready to eat. Nana offered up some and you never refused an offer of food from an Italian grandmother unless you wanted the "evil eye" from her until either you or she passed on. We both popped one in our mouth and it was like an explosion of peppermint that took our breaths away. It reminded me of the Vapo-Rub and steam remedy that some people used for colds back then. Uncle Jim's face was as red as a thermometer in July but somehow asked me if I was O.K. I told him that I could bearly see because my eyes were watering and I couldn't feel my fingers. When we told Nana what she had done she was so embarrassed, but later on it was one of the favorite family stories she told on herself.
@@Somebodys_Mother Just peel the orange and remove all of the white inner layer. Cut the peel into thin two inch strips. Soak in the sugar or corn syrup and let dry. then dip one half of each strip in the chocolate syrup. Let dry and then dip the other half. Takes a bit of work but they are really good;
My mother always made fudge and divinity . Both with Walnuts. She dyed the divinity for Christmas with a light green and red (pink) our job was to place perfect walnut halves on top. Popcorn balls too! Yummy.
@@melodiedrury2567 Watergate salad is made with cool whip, pistachio pudding mix and crushed pineapple. It is green and fluffy. Waldorf salad is made with lettuce, fruits and dressing. 👍🏻 Both are delicious 👍🏻🤩
I still make a number of these for the holidays. My sister loves divinity with a passion but the source of her supply stopped when our maternal grandfather passed away. His recipe is still out there among the family but no one has been able to replicate it. I treasure whenever I can find ribbon candy. It always brings back fond childhood memories with my grandparents.
Divinity is my all time favortie, I made it every Christmas and on my Father's Bday....it is very hard to make correctly. Humidity can ruin it. So only sunny days you guys!
I’ve heard that about pound cakes too! I’m wondering if humidity also affects how my chocolate, pnb, oatmeal cookies set up. And possibly fudge. I also bought extra fine sugar to use in some recipes.
Ambrosia with sour cream, marshmallows and coconut flakes is delicious. My mother also made divinity (heavenly),a confection called Chinese Chews (similar to sugar plums but made with dates) and gumdrop cookies. Good memories.
I still make divinity and drink Tom and Jerrys. The suet pudding is made once in the winter but not necessarily around Christmas (as a little kid Mom always made it around Dad's birthday which was Jan 4th but often on New Year's Day). The corn pudding is always at Thanksgiving. The Eggnog pie has transformed to eggnog cheesecake and I often make it for family Christmas dinner.
The only times I hear of chestnuts is in the x-mas song where they are roasting over an open fire. Why have I never heard of nor tried them? The stuffing sounds so yummy the way she describes it.
Chestnuts are hard to find. The American chestnut almost went extinct due to a blight many decades (or a century) ago. You can find jarred ones from Europe but they are very expensive. I would love to try them sometime.
They declined because we opted for fresher and more health conscience options!🤣🤣🤣😭 ...no hunny, we opted for richer wayyy sweeter more decadent options that were easily whipped up in a fraction of the time thanks to sooo many new prepackaged foods. Who wants Watergate salad when you have an affordable dishes of chocolate abundance and even cheese cakes from those who really can't cook. That is what we opted for and went wild with new ideas of how to create the most luscious and easiest dessert. The new stars of the holiday table.
My family still does spice cake, icing with cream cheese icing and it has to be iced while warm so it soaks in, not overly sweet but a great way to take a few minutes, be nostalgic, wating goodness and melt stress away while filling moments and the aroma with the innocent joys of The Holidays. May this year bring relief, peace, xomfort, health TRIE peace and hope to you all and may Jesus Be Real in your homes and hearts.
I’m 65 and still have two adopted grandkids (11 and 13) at home. They love stringing popcorn and cranberries! We put on a movie and they sit at a table in we bring in the living room and do this forever! They also enjoy making paper chains. It’s the simple things sometimes!
I loved stringing popcorn for our Christmas tree when I was a kid. We were poor so we never bought cranberries to string. I miss those good old days! 🥰
We just called the "Ambrosia" our "Fruit Salad" and eventually left out the coconut because most of the family wasn't thrilled with the texture; we always left the fruits plain and added whipped cream to each individual serving. Molded Jello and Mince pies were only popular with the old folks. Mama always made Divinity and Fudge (with pecans, never walnuts) cranberry relish, and of course, Fruit Cake. The ribbon candy, nougats, bridge mix, peppermints were store bought. Cakes went by the wayside, but chocolate meringue pie was ALWAYS ready. There was always a big bowl of mixed nuts, in the shell. I'd never heard of some of the items used at Christmas... like corn pudding? I don't remember that, sugar plums, eggnog pie, or popcorn garlands. We never had Boars Head, for certain. This is a fun video. I learned a lot of new things! Thank you!
Ribbon candy is beautiful. When I was given it it tasted like a combination of peppermint and detergent. Threw it out. As much as I have a sweet tooth. 😢😢😢
Corn pudding and cranberry relish are still go to's for holiday side dishes where I live. I love the corn pudding receipe that adds jiffy corn muffin mix to it and the cranberry relish that includes fresh cranberries in it.
After the big dinner and later when it was quiet. Just my Mother and I would sit down together and talk while we enjoyed a piece of mincemeat pie topped with vanilla ice cream and with a large glass of cold milk. " Fragrance of Memory "
My grandmother & mother later always made mincemeat tarts instead of pie.(My dad was the only one in our family that liked mincemeat, So only made the tarts). My mom used mincemeat bought at the store. It was None Such & my Dad said it was as good as his mother's.His mother & father both came here from England. Which explains his fondness for mincemeat. We also, made her Lemon Cheese Tarts.( This was just pie crust lined tart tins filled with Lemon Curd & baked.( I still make the lemon cheese tarts every x-mas, using her original tins from England! (Only, had to cut the sugar way down, do to the fact I am prediabetic. But, they are still soo good.! And brings back such nice memories of her!!).
Drat, now I'll have to look up a recipe for mincemeat pie. Haven't seen the None Such brand in AZ for several years now. I'm the only one who likes it at our house.
My mother made corn pudding or something very similar to it, but it was called "scalloped corn" at our house and wasn't necessarily a holiday food. Regarding popcorn strings: If you pop your popcorn dry, i.e. without oil of any kind, and skip the cranberries, popcorn strings will last for years if they're handled carefully and stored in bug-proof containers off season. They'll stay nice and white because no oil was used!
I have a recipe for fruitcake that is made with graham cracker crumbs and lots of candied fruit and marshmallows. It’s an icebox fruitcake. I haven’t made it since the 80s but think I will try it this year. It’s the only one I’ve ever liked. No alcohol in it.
I was introduced to Tom and Jerry’s in Kenosha, WI in 1987. They were so warming. It seemed that many bars had their own secret batter recipe and competed with each other. I miss them.
My family made mincemeat. We used venison several years because my dad was a hunter. Later on we used beef. It makes a very rich pie, you only want a small slice but my mother also used it to fill cookies. Those were awesome! They were so good with coffee.
Thanks for sharing! I do a cranberry relish mixed with a can of strained crushed pineapple. VERY nice balance and its almost gone every time I have it at holiday dinners
Still make Ambrosia salad for Easter, the grand kids LOVE it! My neighbor used to make Divinity, I can Still Taste it, 50 years later! Sadly I have tasted NOTHING like it since.
I still love havong plum pudding and mince pie … topped with “hard sauce” - butter, confectioner’s sugar, and vanilla - whipped together and then put in the fridge till it solidifies. Sometimes I add brandy or rum to it. ❤
Our tastes have shifted towards lighter and healthier foods? What???? Like cheesecake, lava cake, cakes and pies, and anything made with cream cheese, corn syrup, butter, sugar, and the list goes on... No, we just want to fool ourselves by adding a token green vegetable or salad as an afterthought but still have our old delicious fattening and wonderful holiday foods. ENJOY!
I am a 4th (or more) generation Wisconsinite with many ancestors from the UK, Ireland and Colonial New England. We still make it although the name somehow morphed into "Suet Pudding" a few generations ago. As a kid, it was made every year but made sometime after Christmas but close to my Dad's Jan 4th birthday and we never did the brandy (although we sometimes added a little to the hard sauce) or light it on fire. I still make it every couple of years even though Mom has been gone for 8 years and Dad for 28.
You answered your own question as to why these foods faded away. Women were no longer "housewives". In the 70's they started working full time. No more time for creating time consuming fancy dishes, hosting parties etc. Personally I hated calling molded jello "salad". It was a sneaky way to get children to eat vegetables, but to me it will always be a dessert. Plum pudding? That is an British dish not an American, never seen it served in my entire 74 year life. My mother came from a German heritage and made fruitcake and Mincemeat pie every Christmas.
I still make plum pudding and the old recipe I use does, indeed, include plums. Yes, it, along with Christmas fruitcake, should be made at least six weeks before Christmas.
I think plum pudding could make a comeback, and fruitcakes hasn't really went away (mostly because many are now buying fruitcakes online from the Collin Street Bakery in Texas and the Claxton Bakery in Georgia).
My grandmother made divinity for years until her eyes went bad and she couldn't see the string anymore. My sister had a divinity iced cake for her 6th birthday. My grandmother was teaching us to make it when her eyes went bad. We kept telling her it was stringing and she didn't believe us and overcooked it. The cake was still really good, but the divinity icing was hard as a rock.
The chestnut stuffing sounds pretty delicious. I’ve never been a cranberry sauce fan, but the relish sounds like a better choice than canned cranberry sauce.
Oh this takes this 80 yr old granny back. Every year my Aunt Joann in Tulsa would mail a big coffee tin with divinity. I tried and tried to make it and would always end up with divinity frosting. In the dry climate of Oklahoma, divinity would set up just fine. But in the moist, foggy weather of the Bay Area, it wouldn’t set. And every year my parents would have a Tom and Jerry Christmas party, basically it’s a thin custard, very rich with an egg and cream and milk. I still have one of her Tom and Jerry cups, white and black with Tom and Jerry spelled out in gold. It was so rich and creamy that you didn’t even realize that it was pretty alcoholic, I’ve seen men go down on their knees after having too many Tom and Jerry’s.
I seem to be living in the past. I still make the spice cake, fruit cake (my dad & for my friends who like it),ambrosia salad, chestnut and oyster stuffing, divinity, popcorn strings, gingerbread houses, sugar cut out cookies,
Me too. Love divinity
Me too !
How old are you !! 😮However old you're great 👍 I'm 76 and would like to taste some again.🎉❤
me also. only a few of these do i not make now.
@ only 60 I just can’t believe people don’t make or like these sweets
Ambrosia Salad…still a hot ticket item during the Holidays in our family 😂
Ours too!
I make Watergate salad.
Pistachio instant pudding
Mini marshmallows about a cup
1 cool whip
A can of crushed pineapple not drained I used unsweetened because the cool whip is sweet
Mix it all together. So fast to make. Refrigerate it. Dot it with maraschino cherries if u want. Very good
I love it
@@lindajarvis4919 that sounds delicious!
YUCKK!! your family must know something we don't know!! lol Merry Christmas!!!!!
Ambrosia is my favorite! It's such an easy dessert to make and even picky eaters generally enjoy it.
My mom loved ambrosia. It was a must at Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's dinners.
@@leigh5251 we even saved the fruit syrup and put different kinds in our cakes. Whatever wasn't used was frozen for another cake.
these foods have not disappeared
These videos are always misinformed. This person lives in a bubble.
My mother used to make divinity several times a year, and she taught me and my sister to make it!
As a child I have always loved Spice Cake and my Children love it too!
I looked forward to my mom's divinity every Christmas❤
We sat around stringing popcorn and cranberries, making conversation easy. Fond memory🤧Miss you Mom
I still fix divinity. Still one of my absolute favorites.
Same!! My grandma taught me how many years ago.
My father made the divinity in our home. It was one of my favorite confections.
divinity
Yes me too
4:07 My dad used to make it. Good, but too much work
Gee lady, where do you live? We live in the Midwest where ambrosia salad and lime Jello with cottage cheese are alive and well in Wisconsin! We’re the cranberry capital of America, too; look on the plastic bags of fresh cranberries. There are many specialty food catalogues which sell all kinds of yummy fruitcakes, too😋
I am from Wisconsin also my family and other families I know makes ambrosia salad and a lot items I seen on this list is still around like minced meat pie and coffee cake and fruitcake. The lady I'm thinking is in some very large city like LA
Our fresh cranberries come from Oregon.
I'm from Oklahoma and our family still makes ambrosia and allot of the recipes in this video also. I even make my egg noodles from scratch, it's amazing how much better they taste than the frozen ones
I'm in Illinois. Ours is apricot themed. It's delicious. My grandmas recipe. This is definitely still a thing in the Midwest.
Lime jello set, with a softened brick of cream cheese. Still make it today.
I still make Divinity (with my husband's assistance), which is considered a type of fudge where I live in Canada. Perfect Divinity has finely chopped cherries in it. Seafoam is divinity made with brown sugar. We've burned out a few electric mixers in the process - but it's worth it!
Still make many of these foods to this day ❤
Corn Pudding is on the menu for Thanksgiving at our house.
So many of these are extremely common still ... and not just during the holiday season!
I love Claxton Fruit Cake ibuy 3 bricks every year I used to make the best Divinity but can no longer make it because of my health. I do still make my Ambrosia Salad that everyone loves, there is never any leftovers. Happy Holidays Everyone 🎁🎁🎁🌲🌲🌲
Love claxton fruit cake. If you r in the area, stop by their bakery. It is even better when fresh out of the bakery
Oooh! You have me some real good ideas for this year’s holidays! Spice cake and eggnog pie sound really good!
Rumor has it that there is only 1 fruit cake that keeps being re gifted over and over again!
People think I'm crazy when I tell them that I like fruit cake.
@@PeggyReid-l1g. My family loved a brand that was sold in the Midwest area called Manor Fruit cake, it didn’t have any of the bitter citron in it. It was made with candied cherries red and green, candied pineapple, pecans all held together with a golden cake batter. They were heavy with the fruit and expensive and you kept it in the tin with lid that it was sold in, we put it in the refrigerator and it kept well, we cut thin slices and enjoyed it very much at Christmas. My mother-in-law made the best divinity. She would make some especially for me because I complimented her and raved about how good it was, unfortunately she is gone now. I love corn pudding too, everything you are talking about were our holiday foods and I still like these things.
Man that must be really really old by now !😉😉
I used to think that too until my friend gifted me a fruitcake for Christmas from Collin Street Bakery in Texas. At first I said oh crap, but then I tasted it. Their fruitcake is like no other; they are delicious! I now look forward to her sending me one every year. 😊
@ I forgot about those I had one of those several years ago and it was very much like the Manor fruitcake. Thanks for reminding me. I will have to order one of those, you are right they are very good. I was called Patty too growing up!
My mom and dad made Divinity every Christmas season. My mom learned from her Dutch/German mom in MN. I called it Divorce Divinity! We lived steps away from the ocean. The weather played a big role in how the Divinity set up. I hid in my bedroom as my parents argued over the right timing. Once finished, they were as happy as newlyweds with their new baby and the relatives ate every crumb. On the other hand, I shutter very time I think about it!
@@nancychristie7567 Never on rainy days. I made chocolate Covered cherries,also maple nut creams. They had to sit for 6 weeks. Learned that from our old candy and ice cream store in Findlay. Deitschs.
My dad would bring ribbon candy! Good ribbon candy is now hard to find and expensive! He also made Tom and Jerry’s.
Try the Vermont country store. Miles Kimball may also have it . I used to love it at Christmas.
I grew up with almost all of these. Great memories.
I would choose corn pudding over green bean casserole any time! My grandmother made it often, as did my mother. I don't cook much, but I still make corn pudding. Yum!!
I hate green bean casserole. Lol! Haven’t made corn pudding but I make some good cream corn! Everyone eats it and begs for more.
I still make divinity. My mom makes jello salad mold. I make cranberry relish. I’m not big on fruit cake but we eat Stollen. My mother in law makes corn pudding. 😂😂. Not all have gone by the way side.
I love stollen
I still make jello salads, though I seldom use molds anymore. I make ambrosia often. I always bought divinity and ribbon candy. Cranberry relish is one of my specialities. I use jello and chopped pecans, fresh berries, canned oranges (rinse the syrup off because it interferes with the jelling process) thawed frozen strawberries (treat like the oranges) finely chopped apples, chopped celery, and mini marshmallows. I provide cool whip as a topping if you want it. Make sure you have enough jello. All of the additions need more jello to set. The stuff that comes in a can is an abomination in my family.
Real divinity is magnificent,i😅 never learned to make it but my mom did when i was young,she also baked cherry winks that were cookies made with cornflakes❤,i miss her,my dad and my brother ❤
I make cherry winks every year for Christmas.
Pecan Divinity … Oh, the memories …. traveling to grandmas as a little girl and we would stop half way at a Stuckeys Restaurant. Mom would buy a box of pecan divinity and I would always get a delicious vanilla milkshake!
We made it ourselves.
I am 75 and except for Tom and Jerry's, corn pudding, plum pudding, ginger bread houses, and boars head, I have had all of these, either made or bought by my family or my wifes family. I still make egg nog or what we call rum pie, and grasshopper pie is on the menu list this year. I also make cranberry relish made with canned whole cranberries, drained crushed pineapple and crushed pecans or walnuts in gelatin. My family loves it. Two Christmas treats that my mother used to make were creme puffs and baked Alaska.
My grandmother made the candied orange peel but then dipped the finished peel in dark chocolate. She was also a big fan of divinity, making it several times a year. She loved peppermint divinity but as she grew older the family was a bit leary of trying some, as she was getting forgetful. It wasn't that she forgot an ingredient, she sometimes forgot that she had already added it. Such was the case once when she added THREE times the amount of peppermint that was required. Because while making the divinity she was called to the phone and also had to let the dog out forgetting each time that she had already added the mint.
As it was my uncle and I came to her house to do some chores just as the divinity had cooled and was ready to eat. Nana offered up some and you never refused an offer of food from an Italian grandmother unless you wanted the "evil eye" from her until either you or she passed on. We both popped one in our mouth and it was like an explosion of peppermint that took our breaths away. It reminded me of the Vapo-Rub and steam remedy that some people used for colds back then. Uncle Jim's face was as red as a thermometer in July but somehow asked me if I was O.K. I told him that I could bearly see because my eyes were watering and I couldn't feel my fingers. When we told Nana what she had done she was so embarrassed, but later on it was one of the favorite family stories she told on herself.
Candied orange dipped in dark chocolate sounds amazing. I will have to try that.
@@Somebodys_Mother Just peel the orange and remove all of the white inner layer. Cut the peel into thin two inch strips. Soak in the sugar or corn syrup and let dry. then dip one half of each strip in the chocolate syrup. Let dry and then dip the other half. Takes a bit of work but they are really good;
My mother always made fudge and divinity . Both with Walnuts. She dyed the divinity for Christmas with a light green and red (pink) our job was to place perfect walnut halves on top. Popcorn balls too! Yummy.
Watergate salad is still loved in my home 💚
I make this toooooo
Waldorf salad?
@@melodiedrury2567 Watergate salad is made with cool whip, pistachio pudding mix and crushed pineapple. It is green and fluffy. Waldorf salad is made with lettuce, fruits and dressing. 👍🏻 Both are delicious 👍🏻🤩
I still make a number of these for the holidays. My sister loves divinity with a passion but the source of her supply stopped when our maternal grandfather passed away. His recipe is still out there among the family but no one has been able to replicate it. I treasure whenever I can find ribbon candy. It always brings back fond childhood memories with my grandparents.
Divinity is my all time favortie, I made it every Christmas and on my Father's Bday....it is very hard to make correctly. Humidity can ruin it. So only sunny days you guys!
I've had flops over the years ... I guess it was the humidity ! I'm going to try again.
I’ve heard that about pound cakes too! I’m wondering if humidity also affects how my chocolate, pnb, oatmeal cookies set up. And possibly fudge. I also bought extra fine sugar to use in some recipes.
I love fruitcake! Even bad ones are still yummy to me!
My mouth is watering.
I remember all of these.
My grandmother made them from scratch.
She put Martha Stewart to shame.
Ambrosia with sour cream, marshmallows and coconut flakes is delicious. My mother also made divinity (heavenly),a confection called Chinese Chews (similar to sugar plums but made with dates) and gumdrop cookies. Good memories.
Just had corn pudding Friday evening and will be having it for Thanksgiving. Still eat divinity, fruitcake and ambrosia salad.
I still make divinity and drink Tom and Jerrys. The suet pudding is made once in the winter but not necessarily around Christmas (as a little kid Mom always made it around Dad's birthday which was Jan 4th but often on New Year's Day). The corn pudding is always at Thanksgiving. The Eggnog pie has transformed to eggnog cheesecake and I often make it for family Christmas dinner.
Not Southern, but happily make corn pudding. Love plum pudding with hard sauce, and Jello eggnog salad. Some things never go out of style.
The only times I hear of chestnuts is in the x-mas song where they are roasting over an open fire. Why have I never heard of nor tried them? The stuffing sounds so yummy the way she describes it.
Chestnuts are hard to find. The American chestnut almost went extinct due to a blight many decades (or a century) ago. You can find jarred ones from Europe but they are very expensive. I would love to try them sometime.
They are delicious. Always ot them at the German Christmas market
They declined because we opted for fresher and more health conscience options!🤣🤣🤣😭 ...no hunny, we opted for richer wayyy sweeter more decadent options that were easily whipped up in a fraction of the time thanks to sooo many new prepackaged foods. Who wants Watergate salad when you have an affordable dishes of chocolate abundance and even cheese cakes from those who really can't cook. That is what we opted for and went wild with new ideas of how to create the most luscious and easiest dessert. The new stars of the holiday table.
My family still does spice cake, icing with cream cheese icing and it has to be iced while warm so it soaks in, not overly sweet but a great way to take a few minutes, be nostalgic, wating goodness and melt stress away while filling moments and the aroma with the innocent joys of The Holidays.
May this year bring relief, peace, xomfort, health TRIE peace and hope to you all and may Jesus Be Real in your homes and hearts.
We had little money growing up and always strung popcorn and cranberries, after seeing this I will be doing it again this year!
Same here! I remember doing that & hanging it on our Xmas tree, in our early years. Was lot of fun stringing those!
I’m 65 and still have two adopted grandkids (11 and 13) at home. They love stringing popcorn and cranberries! We put on a movie and they sit at a table in we bring in the living room and do this forever! They also enjoy making paper chains. It’s the simple things sometimes!
I love that plus I think it will look really pretty. It looks like half the stuff at Micheal’s but even better because it’s made with love and family💗
I loved stringing popcorn for our Christmas tree when I was a kid. We were poor so we never bought cranberries to string. I miss those good old days! 🥰
We just called the "Ambrosia" our "Fruit Salad" and eventually left out the coconut because most of the family wasn't thrilled with the texture; we always left the fruits plain and added whipped cream to each individual serving. Molded Jello and Mince pies were only popular with the old folks.
Mama always made Divinity and Fudge (with pecans, never walnuts) cranberry relish, and of course, Fruit Cake. The ribbon candy, nougats, bridge mix, peppermints were store bought. Cakes went by the wayside, but chocolate meringue pie was ALWAYS ready. There was always a big bowl of mixed nuts, in the shell.
I'd never heard of some of the items used at Christmas... like corn pudding? I don't remember that, sugar plums, eggnog pie, or popcorn garlands. We never had Boars Head, for certain. This is a fun video. I learned a lot of new things! Thank you!
Ribbon candy is beautiful. When I was given it it tasted like a combination of peppermint and detergent. Threw it out. As much as I have a sweet tooth. 😢😢😢
Corn pudding and cranberry relish are still go to's for holiday side dishes where I live. I love the corn pudding receipe that adds jiffy corn muffin mix to it and the cranberry relish that includes fresh cranberries in it.
After the big dinner and later when it was quiet. Just my Mother and I would sit down together and talk while we enjoyed a piece of mincemeat pie topped with vanilla ice cream and with a large glass of cold milk. " Fragrance of Memory "
My grandmother & mother later always made mincemeat tarts instead of pie.(My dad was the only one in our family that liked mincemeat, So only made the tarts). My mom used mincemeat bought at the store. It was None Such & my Dad said it was as good as his mother's.His mother & father both came here from England. Which explains his fondness for mincemeat. We also, made her Lemon Cheese Tarts.( This was just pie crust lined tart tins filled with Lemon Curd & baked.( I still make the lemon cheese tarts every x-mas, using her original tins from England! (Only, had to cut the sugar way down, do to the fact I am prediabetic. But, they are still soo good.! And brings back such nice memories of her!!).
Mincemeat pie is still my favorite.
I’m going to try and make a batch of mincemeat using my grandmothers recipe this fall
Warm mincemeat pie, yumm.
Drat, now I'll have to look up a recipe for mincemeat pie. Haven't seen the None Such brand in AZ for several years now. I'm the only one who likes it at our house.
My mother made corn pudding or something very similar to it, but it was called "scalloped corn" at our house and wasn't necessarily a holiday food. Regarding popcorn strings: If you pop your popcorn dry, i.e. without oil of any kind, and skip the cranberries, popcorn strings will last for years if they're handled carefully and stored in bug-proof containers off season. They'll stay nice and white because no oil was used!
Spice cake, loved it, but really love Carrot cake
I have a recipe for fruitcake that is made with graham cracker crumbs and lots of candied fruit and marshmallows. It’s an icebox fruitcake. I haven’t made it since the 80s but think I will try it this year. It’s the only one I’ve ever liked. No alcohol in it.
LOVE Divinity ! ..I am sure it is still being made in small town South, Ditto Spice cake YUMM
I make divinity every Christmas. A family favorite
I love Ambrosia salad!! Big hugs from Belinda Greene in Arkansas
Some of these are still huge in the US like spice cake, gingerbread houses and coffee cake
I was introduced to Tom and Jerry’s in Kenosha, WI in 1987. They were so warming. It seemed that many bars had their own secret batter recipe and competed with each other. I miss them.
I still make Chestnut Stuffing at Thanksgiving. 😋
We eat plum pudding, ambrosia salad and head cheese every year. Some traditions die hard
The first 2 yummy. Can't even do homemade head cheese...not my thing
Ambrosia will never disappear. It's food of the gods!
I make a delicious congealed cranberry salad. It’s not really a salad but it’s sooo yummy.👏🏼🫶🏼💪🏼😘
Recipe?
I somehow would eat these again. I always liked Jello.
I make cranberry relish. Everybody always asks to take some home. It’s good on turkey, pound cake, and ice cream!
Oh yes ambrosia salad. Grew up with it and we still make it yo this day
Ribbon candy is still made by hand in Canada.
It's hard and expensive to find the real thin ribbon candy. We never had the icky thick kind.
It is also made by hand in Hammonds Candy shop in Colorado!
I still make the cinnamon coffee cake from scratch. Yummo
I was married to an Aussie. Had this every time we went home for Xmas
Love it with brandy cream sauce.
Lime jello made pineapple and whipped cream is still our favorite thanksgiving tradition. A legacy of Midwestern parents. Also crabapples in syrup.
My family made mincemeat. We used venison several years because my dad was a hunter. Later on we used beef. It makes a very rich pie, you only want a small slice but my mother also used it to fill cookies. Those were awesome! They were so good with coffee.
Thanks for sharing! I do a cranberry relish mixed with a can of strained crushed pineapple. VERY nice balance and its almost gone every time I have it at holiday dinners
I love Divinity & Ribbon candy! Can still be found, though not easily!
Still make Ambrosia salad for Easter, the grand kids LOVE it! My neighbor used to make Divinity, I can Still Taste it, 50 years later! Sadly I have tasted NOTHING like it since.
I like bread pudding, magic cookie bars, fudge.
My daughter still makes divinity for us every year.
I still love havong plum pudding and mince pie … topped with “hard sauce” - butter, confectioner’s sugar, and vanilla - whipped together and then put in the fridge till it solidifies. Sometimes I add brandy or rum to it. ❤
This was such a fun journey of waning tastes and traditions. I remember most of these !! ♥️♥️♥️🇨🇦
My ambrosia salad is frozen fruit, coconut and real whipped cream. Still make it
With the exception of the last entry, I see lots of good ideas for the upcoming holiday season!
I like jello salad and have the jello cookbook published years ago.
I can still make divinity. My family calls it seafoam candy.
We call it Seafoam candy too .
Seafoam is made with brown sugar. Divinity,white. My Mother always made both. I usually stick with Seafoam.
Candied orange peels are STILL my favorite.
I love plum pudding and hard sauce!
Spice cake is still my favorite!
We still make gingerbread houses. I currently have two waiting to be assembled. Heck, they sell them in stores built or in kits.
Love and Respect 🙏 Thank's and Bless you 😂 Congratulations ❤️
Our tastes have shifted towards lighter and healthier foods? What???? Like cheesecake, lava cake, cakes and pies, and anything made with cream cheese, corn syrup, butter, sugar, and the list goes on... No, we just want to fool ourselves by adding a token green vegetable or salad as an afterthought but still have our old delicious fattening and wonderful holiday foods. ENJOY!
The boars head that looks funny😂😂😂 my grandmother made hog head cheese. I never wanted to eat it and I never have.😂😂😂
I like homemade head cheese.
You and me both. Just the name, head cheese was enough for me. 🤢
(Plum Pudding will NEVER die out inb the UK.) it's CALLED CHRISTMAS PUDDING HERE
I am a 4th (or more) generation Wisconsinite with many ancestors from the UK, Ireland and Colonial New England. We still make it although the name somehow morphed into "Suet Pudding" a few generations ago. As a kid, it was made every year but made sometime after Christmas but close to my Dad's Jan 4th birthday and we never did the brandy (although we sometimes added a little to the hard sauce) or light it on fire. I still make it every couple of years even though Mom has been gone for 8 years and Dad for 28.
Same in most Canadian homes.
You answered your own question as to why these foods faded away. Women were no longer "housewives". In the 70's they started working full time. No more time for creating time consuming fancy dishes, hosting parties etc. Personally I hated calling molded jello "salad". It was a sneaky way to get children to eat vegetables, but to me it will always be a dessert. Plum pudding? That is an British dish not an American, never seen it served in my entire 74 year life. My mother came from a German heritage and made fruitcake and Mincemeat pie every Christmas.
Your words are very true. I loathe molded jello and ambrosia salads!
Corn pudding is still popular. I make it a few times a year. And I am making cranberry relish this year. I have everything to make it right now!
Jello salad yeuch! Christmas pudding yum!
Plum Pudding is still very much alive in my family, mostly English origin, arriving in America from 1620 to 1820. At Christmas and Thanksgiving both.
My family still has a jello dish for Thanksgiving. Ours is Apricot. Secret ingredient was apricot baby food. It's delicious
I still make plum pudding and the old recipe I use does, indeed, include plums. Yes, it, along with Christmas fruitcake, should be made at least six weeks before Christmas.
Better use organic oranges if you are going to make candied orange peels. There's a lot of pesticide in non-Organic grown oranges
I make ambrosia. My secret it to add crushed pineapples and a little bit of its juice for a great flavor. I like to add coconut flakes too.
I've only heard of plum pudding from Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" where Bob Cratchit and his family were talking about it!
Omg, those gingerbread houses were impressive. I almost didn’t comment but when she showed the two story one. They look nothing like what I’ve made😂
Love MINCE PIE
I think plum pudding could make a comeback, and fruitcakes hasn't really went away (mostly because many are now buying fruitcakes online from the Collin Street Bakery in Texas and the Claxton Bakery in Georgia).
My grandmother made divinity for years until her eyes went bad and she couldn't see the string anymore. My sister had a divinity iced cake for her 6th birthday. My grandmother was teaching us to make it when her eyes went bad. We kept telling her it was stringing and she didn't believe us and overcooked it. The cake was still really good, but the divinity icing was hard as a rock.
The chestnut stuffing sounds pretty delicious. I’ve never been a cranberry sauce fan, but the relish sounds like a better choice than canned cranberry sauce.
Oh this takes this 80 yr old granny back. Every year my Aunt Joann in Tulsa would mail a big coffee tin with divinity. I tried and tried to make it and would always end up with divinity frosting. In the dry climate of Oklahoma, divinity would set up just fine. But in the moist, foggy weather of the Bay Area, it wouldn’t set. And every year my parents would have a Tom and Jerry Christmas party, basically it’s a thin custard, very rich with an egg and cream and milk. I still have one of her Tom and Jerry cups, white and black with Tom and Jerry spelled out in gold. It was so rich and creamy that you didn’t even realize that it was pretty alcoholic, I’ve seen men go down on their knees after having too many Tom and Jerry’s.
I still make Ambrosia at Thanksgiving. A loved dish here in the South.
Oh my goodness! Cranberry relish yum! Also i would like to try to make the cranberry popcorn garland with my granddaughter who is 10
My kids love doing that! They are 11 and 13.
I bet that if elevated, ambrosia salad could be really good. Eggnog pie sounds delicious to me!
You're so sweet, we still do all this here in Texas...shocker, I know...lol
I remember spice cake. I even made it as a young girl. I don't remember if we put icing on it, but I'm sure we did.