Period Recipes for Holiday Treats

[Elaine Kessinger]

As the title suggests, let's share recipes (or in period terms receipts) for holiday treats... gingerbread, egg nog, plum pudding, cookies, mulling spices.

Please, let's use documentation from prior to 1865.

Here's mince pie to start us off.
From: New England Economical Housekeeper by Esther Allen Howland, 1845

https://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/coldfusion/display.cfm?TitleNo=25&PageNum=33