Welcome December!
Time to dust off those traditional family recipes, dig out the nutmeg jar, and tie on that apron with firm conviction. December is here…
Here are a few inspirational dinner menus from my undated recipe book: The Calendar of Dinners, 365 Answers to the Daily Question: What shall we have for dinner?
These excerpts underscore your fall/winter harvest. Speaking of which – drove past the Sunday farmers market and, alas, only 2 stalwart vendors hunkered down behind tables stacked with root vegetables. Their tarpaulins offering little protection from the sideways rain. Ah, winter…
Silly question: Are turnips and rutabagas the same vegetable?
I shan’t go searching for the answer, but rather prefer to wait for loyal readers to chime in and clarify the issue.
Here’s to December! Cheers!
Convivial Supper 
Do we know what Bangor pudding is?
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Dorothy, I looked it up, but I wonder if that was the name of the town Aunt B was from.
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Alas, the only actual recipes in the book are alongside the menus – one recipe per menu. There’s an index in the back, but no Bangor pudding.
BUT – I found it in a newspaper from 1915. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/iune_golf_ver01/data/sn83045487/00280761114/1915010801/0175.pdf
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More than likely! These little mysteries are often something like that, the name of a town or person.
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☺️ one wonders if has been passed down as a family recipe, and here we are trying to figure it out.
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Makes me wonder if with all this meal, if most people ate once a day.
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Right? Or if they were simply more active, or the portions were smaller.
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so very interesting, thank you.
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most welcome! 🌸🌺🌸
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