Negative Space: Easter
- Candy cane oatmeal crispies
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These candy cane cookies are a great way to use up post-Christmas candy canes. You might even want to hit the after-Christmas sales just to get canes to make these with.
- Easter Candy-Cane Ice Cream
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Candy canes are a shepherd’s staff. At Christmas, the shepherds were witnesses to Christ’s birth. By Easter, Christ is the good shepherd, giving his life for his lost lambs.
- Hope Lutheran 1950 Lenten fish au gratin
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One of the interesting things about old calendars that are also something else—such as a cookbook—is that they follow seasons that no longer exist.
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- The Southern Living Holiday Cookbook• (hardcover)
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Almond silk pie; Glazed donuts; Ginger cookies; Popovers. One of my favorites.
- Keeping a Holy Lent
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“The custom of keeping the fast in Lent has been part of the holy observance of the season from its very beginnings. The biblical precedent for this custom is reflected in the very first hymn in the ‘Lent’ section of Lutheran Service Book: ‘O Lord, throughout these forty days You prayed and kept the fast’.”
