“My husband would never eat pumpkin pie made with canned pumpkin, but after we were married and I made a fresh pumpkin pie for him, he was hooked. Karron Dunlap has several dishes that are always requested at Christmas: a cranberry relish recipe from her grandmother, a “sinfully rich” potato casserole and a pie made with fresh pumpkin. He gives the cookies as gifts, so friends will be enjoying them as well. Ryan adapted a Paula Deen recipe to come up with his holiday favorite, making some changes to simplify the process and make it to his preference. Then there are his Holiday Cookies, which he's been baking for eight years. Today's meal will feature ham with yams, mashed potatoes and other sides, finished off with mint chocolate chip brownies. Kristopher Ryan is in charge of cooking holiday meals for himself, his brother and mother. Pinckney says the salad is a staple because it goes well with turkey or ham. Often, a spinach casserole made with jalapeño cheese and a Cherry Jell-O salad made with tart red cherries show up on Christmas Day, as well as some Thanksgivings. “They're very distinctive in taste,” she says.Īnise cookies from her husband's grandmother's recipe are also required. On the menu later in the day? Fruitcakes, one from her mother's recipe that calls for nuts, dates, eggs, butter and the juice of a lemon, another from her mother-in-law made with dates, pecans, candied red and green cherries and very little batter. The solution: early church, then back to Pinckney's for Christmas brunch, complete with cinnamon rolls. Pinckney was worried how her teenage granddaughters would get up in time to have their traditional cinnamon rolls before church this year. Do you see a major sugar high here?”įor Janice Pinckney, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without homemade cinnamon rolls at breakfast.
“My great-grandmother made a candy called Butter Chips, and my great-aunt made an Orange Cream Pecan Candy. Porter's grandmother MiMi always made pecan caramel candies, cutting waxed paper into squares for wrapping each piece. Sweets made with pecans from native trees along the creeks and draws that feed into the San Saba River were also on the menu. Porter remembers her mother ordering a small keg of herring from Weingarten's in Houston then bringing it to the family ranch in Menard, where she'd marinate the herring and make a sour cream sauce for it. “I guess they were the original Martha Stewarts.”Ĭlara Porter of Menard says her Christmas food memories revolve around her German relatives, who always had marinated herring, called milker herring. “Having been raised in a rural community in South Texas, I remember always exchanging Christmas plates with all kinds of homemade goodies - each one was unique and personalized by its creator. “And, of course, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Pan de Polvo and Rum Cake,” she says. It was just a tradition that triggers happy memories.”Īlicia Garza of Falfurrias traditionally has a brisket and tamales for Christmas. I can still remember her hugging us, asking if we were hungry, and we always asked if she had made the cake, and she always had. “Since we were coming from 500 miles away in Iowa, I never could figure out how it was always warm. Money was very scarce, but she always had a warm cake ready for us and it was such a treat,” she says. “Every time my parents and I visited my grandparents in North Dakota in the 1940s and 1950s, my grandmother never failed to have this cake on the kitchen counter when we arrived.
Made with home-rendered lard, the cake was handed down from her grandmother, Mabel Anna Flickinger of Hope, N.D. Kathy Nealy of Schertz says Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake with Caramel Icing was always on her family's menu. “Family members come over to eat, relax and watch Christmas movies all day long,” she says.
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