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Halloween Fruit Cakes. Photo: Elizabeth Urbach |
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Historic Cooking: Halloween Fruit Cake from 1920
Labels:
1920,
20th century,
autumn,
baking,
cake,
cocoa,
fall,
food,
food history,
fruit,
Halloween,
Historical Food Fortnightly,
history,
holiday,
orange,
raisin,
recipe,
spice
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
"The Winter Evening" (Book Four), _The Task_ (1784)
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
"The Winter Evening" (Book Four), _The Task_ (1784)