All in Special Occasion
Elizabeth began planning the menu for the May breakfast. Her fruit cellar still contained a wide variety of jellies and preserves, many of them put aside at the time of their making, for this particular event. The wild strawberries, preserved on the glass by the heat of the sun’s rays, for instance, were a delicacy which the family had enjoyed only at Thanksgiving and Christmas practices.
For the body of the breakfast Elizabeth Phelps Bradley planned platters of fried chicken, ham and eggs, with golden brown mashed potato cakes, and kernel corn pancakes which her mother and grandmother had made famous. Her table would also include ...
Lent has been observed in commemoration of Christ's 40 days of fasting as a special season of penitence in preparation for the Easter feast
As part of our ongoing series on the culinary traditions of Lent we turn today to WPA Sources on New England Rhode.
oday is Fat Tuesday and the start of Mardi Gras and Carnival around the world. In New Orleans, Rio, Spanish, Town, Montevideo and other cities with rich Mardi Gras traditions, carnival represents the last party before Christians give up carne (meat) and turn to serious reflections on the life of Jesus Christ
