Figgy pudding is a steamed cake that usually consists of dried fruit, brown sugar, candied orange peel, eggs, breadcrumbs, warm spices like nutmeg and cloves, and suet (beef or mutton fat). Once ...

The day after Thanksgiving while visiting our family, Christmas music was everywhere. Soon I was humming, "Oh, bring us some figgy pudding. Oh, bring us ..." Well, you know the rest. We sing about ...

My fellow Americans, I come to you today with a message, glad tidings for our aching nation. After years of political turmoil, pandemic and economic hardship, a new hero has arisen just in time for ...

Unlike Hanukkah’s potato latkes and sufganiyot or Purim’s hamantaschen, there aren’t a lot of specific foods that come along with celebrating Sukkot. Instead, Sukkot is the Jewish calendar’s poster ...

As the Thanksgiving and Christmas season returns to something like normalcy, perhaps it's time for new traditions. The mad scientists at luncheon meat packager Hormel have one idea: Spam Figgy Pudding ...

Fig and Pecan Bread Pudding with Carmelized Sugar/Bourbon Sauce Makes 12 servings 2 cups heavy cream 6 whole eggs 1 cup light brown sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon orange zest 4 cups cubed ...

“Now bring us some figgy pudding, now bring us some figgy pudding, now bring us some figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer!” How many times have we sung the lyrics to this verse of classic Christmas ...

Three recipes for fig preserves and an old recipe for Tujaque's bread pudding with tart cranberry sauceLast year, J.C. helped his wife make fig preserves from the fruit of the tree in their Slidell ...