1935 Saskatoon Christmas Recipe - Old Cookbook Show - Glen And Friends Cooking

1935 Saskatoon Christmas Recipe - Old Cookbook Show - Glen And Friends Cooking
The recipe today is from the December 20th 1935 edition of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix:

Christmas Recipe:
Candy Fruit Cake is a bit rich, but good. It's made with:
One half cup stoned and chopped dates, 4 tablespoons shredded citron, 4 tablespoons each candied lemon and orange peels, ½ cup pecan nut meats, ½ cup Brazil nut meats, 1 tablespoon orange juice, 2 ounces dipping chocolate, powdered sugar.
Put nuts and fruit through food chopper. Mix thoroughly with orange juice. Melt chocolate over hot water and stir into first mixture. Work with a fork until perfectly blended. Pack in a buttered pan. When firm cut in squares and roll in powdered sugar.

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[lipstickzombie]

That can be an interesting substitute for fruit cake and for those who aren't good at baking. Hell, this is basically a fancy energy bar.👍🏼

[lorainec]

The mention of giving an orange as a present, reminded me of opening up my stocking as a young child and finding fruit alongside the small gifts. I'm giving this a try.

[sinocte]

This ingredient list sounds an awful lot like "How do I use up the contents of this gift basket I got, because I darn sure don't want to waste any of it!" and I'm all for that sort of thing.

[Traderjoe]

I know a lot of people regard fruitcake as a holiday trope, but I happen to love it. Along with eggnog. It’s those kinds of flavors that take me back to a simpler, more wholesome time. Before we became jaded with the reality of the world and we still looked up at the skies in wonder.

[saskatoonguy]

Well now, Saskatoon loves you too Glen.

[tjs]

My grandmother made this and she was from Iowa, born in 1908. Apparently Brazil nuts were 'the craze' from about 1920 to 1940 because they were large, stored for a very long time and when ground up produced more of a paste than 'sand' because of the oils. They also had what would be considered an utterly inappropriate nickname well into the 1960s.

[senorjp]

I found this quite touching. Complaining about this and that is fashionable but compared to the 1930s we are living in a fairytale. Merry Christmas to Glen and friends!

[jwaynewilliams]

This episode of the show reminds us about how grateful we should be for the things we currently take for granted. Think about not being able to go purchase an orange or the fact that they were hugely expensive this kind of thing was happening just two or three generations ago most of us can go to a store and buy anything we want even something hugely expensive and not think about it and give it a gift for Christmas. It also helps playing bring into clarity something that happened as a child in my small community. I grew up in church, and the church always prepared a treat in a brown bag for everyone on the Sunday before Christmas. Usually that treat included at least an orange or perhaps an apple and banana and some nuts. Now I understand what that meant when before I didn't.

[robininva]

When I’d yearly ask my daddy, born in PA in 1916, what he wanted for Christmas, he’d always, always, always say….a bag of candy and an orange. He was just being “cute”….but it was soothing, I assume, to him to reminisce his childhood through that reply. One year….I bought him kumquats and a teeny bag of candy….and sat it on the kitchen table with a note: Hard-times Christmas gift. 😃 He took a picture of it….he loved it so much. ❤️

[thetalkingbookchannel]

Together since uni??? Congratulations 👏🥳

[shirleyannconfer]

I’m reminded of a candy bar I loved as a kid. It was actually a big cube of milk chocolate, that came in plain and a version with finely chopped nuts and raisins. I just looked it up online, and they were called Chunky bars.

[margarettt]

We received an orange in our Christmas stocking, and a banana, the only orange and banana we got each year. We regarded these things as incredible and exotic treats. Many years later my father-in-law (rest in peace) sent us a box of oranges and grapefruits from Florida every Christmas - it was a the highlight of the Christmas season. Sometimes I think about ordering these for ourselves, so that we can feel young again, receiving a gift at Christmas.

[galethompson]

As a child in the 1950s we always got an orange in our Christmas stockings.

[Jeffffrey]

I love that Julie pulled out her Christmas cardigan for a Christmas recipe video.

[lindawoods]

My Grandmother, from Nokomis, made something very similar at that time, then updated it by adding mini marshmallows in the70's. My mother received oranges for Christmas during that time . They had to be cut open and the peelings saved for future baking. The items were put in the hand meat grinder to chop up, I loved to be the one to turn the handle. The final recipe was made into a roll to make frugal slices, 5 children in the family. This was a Christmas tradition in our family, but it could be found at Grandmas' house at other times of the year later on. Cookbooks were hand written for the most part, but some clipped newspaper recipes, I don't remember which this was. Someone else in the family received her treasure of a recipe book, I always wished it would have been me. Thanks for bringing back these memories just before Christmas.

[LeeDunkelberg]

A food processor would have destroyed one of my favorite childhood memories. When grandma made her heavy, dark and delicious fruit cake for Christmas, we kids got to cut up the fruit. It usually was a day-long adventure. We started by buying the candied fruit and nuts at the late, great Leonard’s Department Store in downtown Fort Worth (best store ever).
Then adjourn to the grandparents’ house for an evening of slicing and dicing. Yes, there was a bit of pilfering, but I prefer to think of it as tasting.
Great show!

[walterco]

They look tasty. I wonder if you could use a small cookie scoop to form them into balls - little chocolate fruitcake truffle bites. Hmm.

[velvettnunn]

I love and appreciate the backstories you always share.

[Hardtochoose]

Mom and Dad lived through the Depression. I always got a perfect orange and apple in my stocking. This looks yummy!

[kidscatsdog]

Yes, getting an orange for Christmas was a thing! Back in the old country, I remember getting an orange and my grandmother would save the peel and hang it up to dry...