Tag: Thanksgiving

Tuesday Tales: Writing Thanksgiving

Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog featuring diverse authors posting excerpts from their works in progress based on word and picture prompts. I’m so pleased you stopped by. This week’s word prompt is Thanksgiving. My snippet is from a new historical with an old Florida theme. Enjoy the other authors at Tuesday Tales. Delicious aromas filled… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Thanksgiving

Mythic Monday: Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! “They begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings against winter, being well recovered in health & strength, and had all things in good plenty; for some were thus imployed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, aboute codd, & bass, &… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Happy Thanksgiving

Vintage Friday: Indian Corn Pudding 1621 by Flossie Benton Rogers

Many of the traditional delicacies we enjoy on Thanksgiving were not present for the Pilgrims and Native Americans on the first Thanksgiving in 1621. Among those are sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and cranberry sauce. Ears of corn would have already dried and, therefore, would have been unavailable for fresh cooking in November. However,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Indian Corn Pudding 1621 by Flossie Benton Rogers

Vintage Friday: Mystery Pecan Pie

This week we have a vintage pie recipe from the 1964 Pillsbury Bake-Off Cookbook, Mystery Pecan Pie. Actually, the pie boasts two mysteries. One involves a secret ingredient that you wouldn’t expect to find in a pecan pie– none other than my son’s favorite: a cheesecake layer! The second mystery is that the pie is one of… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Mystery Pecan Pie