Category: Food Facts – Food History

Ginger Cookies Recipe For National Cookie Day

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December 4th is National Cookie Day. While there seems to be an endless variety of cookies worldwide, there are eight basic types of cookies. The recipe below is for the ginger cookie—a seasonal choice that is neither gingerbread nor gingersnaps. Ginger cookies are a type of drop cookie. A ball of dough is dropped onto…
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COCKTAIL RECIPE: Milk Punch For Thanksgiving Or Christmas

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[1] What to serve before holiday dinners: Bourbon Milk Punch (photos #1 and #2 © Woodford Reserve. [2] Woodford Reserve makes several expressions of Kentucky Bourbon, including a double-oaked version that’s a real find for oak lovers. They also distill malt, rye and wheat whiskeys. [3] You can serve milk punch in whatever glasses you…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Rum Raisin Ice Cream

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Rum Raisin ice cream is typically a holiday special in American grocery stores, although it’s delicious year-round. Raisins are plumped up with rum and mixed into vanilla ice cream. But if you buy a commercial brand, you’re more likely to get raisins plumped in rum flavor instead of alcohol. And that doesn’t produce much rum…
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RECIPE: Buffalo Chicken Nuggets For National Chicken Nuggets Day

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[1] Oven-baked nuggets served Buffalo Wing style. The recipe is below (photo © Nadine Primeau | Unsplash). [2] Don’t like blue cheese? Serve chicken nuggets with your favorite dips. Here’s the recipe (photo © Every Last Bite. [3] Vegan nuggets: Alpha Foods used its Chikn-Nuggets to make a Buffalo Chickn hero/sub, with all the fixings:…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Balkan Bites Bureks

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Sometimes the food adventure takes you to new countries and new cuisines. You may discover new must-have favorites. That’s what happened to us with bureks (BOO-rek, also spelled börek and other variations), when we discovered Balkan Bites, a New York-based family business that bakes bureks from generations-old recipes handed down from great-great grandmothers in Albania.…
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