Christmas Ambrosia
Granny always made fruit salad for Christmas dinner. She calls her fruit salad Heavenly Hash. As I got older I…

Granny always made fruit salad for Christmas dinner. She calls her fruit salad Heavenly Hash. As I got older I…

My Grandma was Talitha Ann Queener Rutherford. When I hear the squeak of a rocking chair I never fail to…

Steve & Tipper Christmas 1970 Away In A Manger is the lullaby of Christmas songs. I’ve always thought the simple lines…

This week I’ve been making Pralines, I always make them at Christmas. When Chatter and Chitter were little they acted like banshees (actually…

The winter of 1900 had been an unusually bad one. A true story book picture of what a Christmas scene…

A few weeks ago Blind Pig reader Carol Stuart mentioned using running cedar as Christmas greenery when she lived in…

We never knew about Gallackin but we did gather moss and boxwood cuttings to sell to florists. Way back in…

When our family moved to town, to Morganton, in the early 1950s, money was scare: rent for the first time,…

A while back, B. Ruth left a comment on the Grannyism page asking if Granny ever made Hard Rock Candy….

Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem was written by Phillips Brooks, the pastor who spoke at Abraham Lincoln’s funeral service. Before…

Almost every year the girls and I make Christmas Cards. For some reason we never got around to our annual…

Christmas, 1941, I was four. We hung up our stocking, usually the biggest one we could find, and, we usually…