Get out a stick of butter and let it melt a bit so you can mush it up. Now, let me tell you I’ve been elected/volunteered to be the family chef of the turkey for the past couple of Thanksgivings and by combining the wisdom of two of my favorite chefs, Mark Bittman and Ina Garten, I think I have come up with the perfect turkey recipe.įirst, prepare the turkey by removing all the stuff inside. Sausage and cheese plate with apple and pear slices Bake on a cookie sheet for 15-20 minutes. Using a very sharp knife, mark raw chestnuts with an X. turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, suckling-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch. There’s another fine description of foodstuffs when the Ghost of Christmas Present appears surrounded by a mountain of comestibles. There are disagreements as to whether it is boiled beef, pork or chicken. I also tried to find the definitive answer for what “cold boiled” might be. Thanks to Jane Austen (), I can share with you the recipe should you be so inclined to go all out Regency/Victorian at your book club. Apparently a concoction made of wine, hot water, lemon, sugar and nutmeg, invented by Col. there was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece of cold roast, and there was a great piece of cold boiled, and there were mince-pies, and plenty of beer. When the Ghost of Christmas Past transports Scrooge to Fezziwig’s ball, a splendid repast is detailed. I shall but before I do, may I wish you and yours the Merriest of Christmas, the Happiest of Hanukahs, the most blessed of Kwanzaas. So, yeah, it’s a classic, we know we know. Scrooge had often heard it said that Marley had no bowels, but he had never believed it till now. His body was transparent so that Scrooge, observing him, could see the two buttons on his waistcoat behind. I did not recall this humorous description of Scrooge’s reaction to Marley’s ghost: I re-read A Christmas Carol this week, something I haven’t done for several years, and found it as touching as ever, more detailed than I recalled and surprisingly full of humor. Many many more, but most famous, “God Bless Us, Everyone.” There’s more of gravy than of grave about you Incidentally, there are several free, full texts of the novella on line.Ī Christmas Carol takes merely an hour or so to read from cover to cover, yet is filled with an indelible story, spirit, characters and lines we all know by heart.Įvery idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips would be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart (I did not realize there had been a Jetson’s Christmas Carol - how could I have missed that?) And here’s a completely new version: novelist Neil Gaiman reading Dickens’ own hand-edited copy at a public reading at the New York Public Library. Wikipedia has an exhaustive (and at times amusing) list. Is there one among us who is unfamiliar with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come? Who knows not that Marley was dead, to begin with, in fact, “dead as a door-nail?” Whose tears of Tiny Tim’s untimely fate have not been shed? A Christmas Carol, published by Charles Dickens, in 1843, has been adapted more times than the number of its pages (160) with portrayals as varied as Mr. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
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