A Blog For Your Seasonal Home
Bringing you homemaking tips, festive food, and seasonal stories. Coming to you from the DC Metro area, by way of Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Welcome! Stay and get cozy.
Recent Posts
Cakes and Clergymen: A Surprising Combination
…This booklet has a variety of Irish baked treat recipes with artistic scenes from Ye Olde Petticoat Days. The dishes range from the famous boxty which is still popular today, to fruit cakes and spice cakes for the holiday season….
…One of my favorite recipes from this booklet is the Vicarage cake. According to the book, this egg-less cake is traditionally made when the hens are not laying eggs, due to its ingredients (or lack thereof)…
Wassail, Pigs, and a Fresh Start:
When I think of New Year’s Day, I think of the song Here We Come A-Wassailing. If you’ve ever had the joy of watching the 1994 movie production of Little Women, you know the song I mean — the tune the girls sing as they come merrily down the lane before intersecting with the wealthy Lawrence gentlemen.
It’s a joyful sounding song amidst the typical minor-keyed Christmas tunes of the Dickensian era. A bright light in the darkness, if you will. And it makes me think that perhaps I need to pull out my cooking pot and brew up some wassail of my own.
Twelve Days of Lingering Leftovers
When does Christmas end for you, if you celebrate it? Do the decorations come down the day after? Or is New Year’s the cut off for your holiday? Or, like our household, do you stretch it through the traditional twelve days of Christmas to January 6 (the Christian holy day of Epiphany, also known as Twelfth Night and Three Kings Day)? …
Yearly Homemaking Checklist
Give yourself the tools to tackle your home this year! This checklist offers maintenance, housekeeping, and tips for a well-managed home.