RECIPES

Ye Old Holiday Recipes

We’ve found a couple of classic favorites from readers that are time tested and approved!

Parsley Stuffing

This recipe comes to us from Sarah Ford. Her husband’s stuffing recipe came from England and across the plains with his ancestors. It was handed down and taught to every generation and now he’s taught the kids to make it. His great great grandfather was Charles Lambert, a stone mason on the Nauvoo temple in Illinois and also the Salt Lake Temple. In fact, he carved many of the old headstones in Salt Lake City cemetery and Bountiful city cemetery. The recipe for Parsley stuffing is attributed to his line.

Heavy bread torn into pieces Lots of softened butter Parsley

That’s it! It’s a time consuming, labor intensive process, but everyone loves it. You have to use the densest, heaviest bread you can find. Tear it into pieces. You wash and finely mince parsley leaves, pat the excess moisture out, and mix with the bread. Then you take softened butter and with your hands, mix it through the bread and parsley. I can’t even tell you amounts because it varies. It’s all done by a “feel.” However, we use six to eight loaves of bread, six to eight bunches of parsley, and 2-4 pounds of butter to feed everyone. The bread is then roasted in the oven until it is toasted golden brown. It has to be watched carefully so it doesn’t burn. Our kids have helped with it since they were old enough to tear pieces of bread. We make a lot, enough to last for a week or so after Thanksgiving. It also freezes really well.

Christmas Breakfast

This recipe came to us by Jill Bonsteel, who had a great grandmother who would put milk gravy on everything. They call it Christmas Breakfast.

Cooked ham slices Eggs sunny side up or over easy Homemade bread broken up

Milk gravy with ham drippings (recipe below) All ingredients are cut in small pieces and mixed all together. One year, they used fresh bread, a hillshire farms summer sausage powered eggs and powder milk and it turned out fine too.

Paula Deen’s Milk Gravy Recipe

1 -2 tablespoon vegetable oil or 1 -2 tablespoon vegetable shortening 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour 3 cups whole milk 1 teaspoon black pepper 1⁄2 teaspoon salt

Use ham drippings instead of oil

Heat 1-2 tablespoons oil in a skillet over medium heat. Whisk in flour, whisking constantly for about 1 minute. Slowly add milk, whisking constantly. Stir in pepper and salt and continue cooking. Whisk constantly for about 10 minutes, or until thickened.

NEWSPAPERS in the SNOW

We might be saying goodbye to the days of newspaper carriers as two of Utah’s newspapers shift to weekly publications.

BY HAILEY MINTON

The cold air seemed to freeze the inside of my nose as I initially walked down my front porch steps to go deliver newspapers. It had been snowing the night before and big chunky flakes continued to drift to the ground to muffle every sound except my feet squeaking in the snow. As I began to move, my body started to warm up inside my old blue coat with newspaper ink smeared on the sleeves. The winter solstice was still approaching so dusk continued to draw out it’s time below the horizon the way I wished to draw out my time under my covers. It was about 5:45 a.m. as I walked the two blocks of my paper route. The roads had yet to be plowed, the sidewalks yet to be shoveled, so I tromped my way along while everyone else in the neighborhood was still asleep… or at least I thought they should be. The fresh blanket of snow accentuated the blushing glow of the Christmas lights decorating some of the homes on my route. I can’t tell you how much the memory of this feels like home. The Christmas lights in yards and fringing the roofs, icicles dangling from porch covers, cats eyeing me from inside the homes, crunching the frozen ice in the gutters. It’s vivid and wonderful even though I probably wouldn’t have described it that way when I was delivering the papers. My home was smack dab in the middle of The Deseret News my paper route. I had it from about the time and The Salt Lake I was in 4th grade until about 8th grade. It Tribune recently didn’t matter the weather, every day I went out. Although sometimes my dad graciously offered to drive his car when the papers were announced they will no longer be especially big or the weather was especially a daily newspaper atrocious. starting on My paper route gave me a reason to take what January 1, 2021. ended up being a meditative walk every day, but unfortunately, those days of delivering newspapers probably won’t be around for my children. I’ve seen my sister sadly let go of her route when the Standard Examiner decided they would no longer drop off her papers at my parents home for her. It didn’t make financial sense to continue the job. The Deseret News and The Salt Lake Tribune recently announced they will no longer be daily newspaper starting on January 1, 2021. Their weekly newspaper will be delivered by mail from here on out. According to the New York Times, “The economic decline caused by the coronavirus pandemic has pummeled a local newspaper industry already struggling with declining revenues, layoffs and pay reductions in newsrooms across the country.” This doesn’t mean stories won’t be written, but we will need to go online to read them. As our world shifts, let us not forget the role the newspaper plays in our society. It helps keep us accountable. It brings to light things the average person might not know about. The bad news that so many want to avoid can help us make changes to the way we approach the future. The good news can help us see the progress we have made and be inspired by those around us. The information we read can help us make educated decisions or lead us to research further into an issue. We can think critically about what we read or listen to and discuss our opinions with others. The news gives us things to think about that might not have otherwise crossed our minds. The press is a critical element in our freedom so I hope we can support it during these times of change.

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Give Yourself the Gift of a Lower Mortgage Payment

They say it’s better to give than to receive. That certainly is true, but sometimes it’s nice to get a

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INTEREST RATES ARE LOW

Interest rates have been pretty low for a few years. Many experts thought the rates couldn’t get any lower, but interest rates have continued to drop this year and are now hovering around the all-time low. The lower rates make it a great time to refinance.

LOWER MONTHLY PAYMENT

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SKIP A PAYMENT (OR TWO)

Another nice perk of refinancing is that you are often able to skip a mortgage payment. If you time it right, you may even be able to skip two payments. Talk to a loan officer to explore your options and to see if you can skip one or more payments. It’s a great way to keep more cash in your pocket during the holiday season.

IT’S EASIER THAN YOU THINK

It can be tempting to put off refinancing until the new year to avoid adding one more thing to your plate this month. But nobody knows what interest rates will look like over the next few months, so the surest way to lock in a great rate is to start the process now. Use a tech-enabled broker like Econ Mortgage and the process can be quick and smooth, with most of the paperwork handled electronically.

IT DOESN’T HURT TO ASK

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