Sentimental Food Faves

[ithildin]

What foods do you associate with memories of the holidays?

Me, it's mostly sweets, other than the aforementioned sausage rolls.

Matrimonial Cake
Nanaimo Bars
Mince Tarts
Butter Tarts
Plum Pudding
Sees Chocolates
Fruit Cake

Comments

[spiffikins]

I love you because you're the first person outside of my family who knows what butter tarts are :D

Also, is your matrimonial cake made with dates? Because we always called it date square, but I'm pretty sure the recipe's name was Matrimonial cake.

I need to dig out the Mennonite Cookbook and make me some yummies.

My list is:

Butter Tarts
Fruit cake from my grandmother
Date Square
Lemon Square

and then randomly...Old Dutch potato chips - we rarely had chips, but at Christmas time, mom would buy boxes of them!

Mandarin oranges wrapped in green paper in the "crate" cardboard box - eating them and eating them and hoping to get them all before they got moldy :D

And the Danish butter cookies in the round blue tin.

Turtles!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Really? I guess I've never asked [g] Yep, it's dates, though I'm not fond of dates, so mum makes me an apricot version too. I loved Old Dutch chips. And the Mandarin oranges? Woot! We always got some in our stocking too, and I always figured Santa didn't know we already had them in the house.