Holiday Fruitcake
A quicker Bundt-style holiday fruitcake made with quick-bread mix, mincemeat, nuts and candied fruit, with a family Christmas story preserved alongside it.
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White Christmas Fudge
A creamy white-chocolate holiday fudge with dried fruit and toasted almonds, cut into small squares for a Christmas candy tray.
Broken Glass Torte
A vintage Christmas torte with colorful gelatin cubes folded into creamy filling over a graham-cracker crust.
Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies
Thin, tender old-fashioned sugar cookies cut into shapes and baked quickly, with source-preserved decorator icing for a classic holiday finish.
Refrigerator Rolls
Soft make-ahead refrigerator rolls made from a vintage yeast dough that chills before shaping, rising and baking.
Holiday Cranberry Applesauce
A three-ingredient holiday applesauce made with cooking apples, cranberry juice and red hot cinnamon candies—bright, spiced and deeply nostalgic.
Squash Dressing
A vintage squash dressing with cornbread, onion and cream of chicken soup, baked until golden and preserved from a verified Jersey County community cookbook recipe.
Cranberry-Pear Pie
A holiday-ready cranberry pear pie with whole cranberry sauce, sliced pears, cinnamon and a lattice crust, preserved from a verified Jersey County community cookbook recipe.
Reames Hearty Chicken and Noodles
A hearty chicken and frozen egg noodle recipe with bouillon, onion and parsley, remembered in the source as grandma’s chicken soup and preserved from a Jersey County community cookbook.
Glazed Apple Bars
A preserved recipe from the 2006 Jersey County community cookbook 75 Years of Caring and Sharing.
Pumpkin Pecan Pie
Vintage Pumpkin Pecan Pie recipe preserved from Favorite Country Recipes (1981), a Tampico, Illinois community cookbook, with the original ingredients a…
Chicken Marbella
Chicken Marbella with prunes, green olives, capers, oregano and garlic in a sweet-savory marinade, preserved from a verified Jersey County community cookbook recipe.