Let's share: your holiday homemade goodie gifts

13 years ago

This year, haven't made it in 4 or 5 years, I'll be gifting a few with

Champagne Jelly

3 cups sugar

2 cups pink champagne

1 3 oz pkg liquid pectin

Combine sugar and champagne in a large Dutch oven. Cook over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves (do not boil) Remove from heat, stir in liquid pectin. Skim off foam with a metal spoon.

Quickly pour hot jelly into hot sterilized jars, leaving 1/4 inch of headspace. Cover at once. Let stand 8 hours for jelly to set up. Makes 5 half pints

I don't process mine, cause the jelly is usually gone before the holidays are over.

GREAT ON HOT BISCUITS!

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patti43
13 years ago
I give cookie platters to 3 of my neighbors. This year's cookies are snickerdoodles, Mexican wedding cookies, cherry chocolate chip and peanut butter. All the dough is made and in the freezer for another week. Nobody cooks around here, much less bakes, so they really love it.
dotmom
13 years ago
I made Pumpkin bread today, One large loaf and two mini loafs. The large one will go to our car guy, one of the small ones will go to a young man in the building. He is handicapped but brings our morning paper up every morning an dputs it by our door. He will also get a monetary gift, plus a couple kitty treats for his cat. Thursday I'm going to make Almond bark to give to some neighbors we are close to.
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glenda_al
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13 years ago
One of my favorites was making mini strawberry bread.
sheilajoyce_gw
13 years ago
I no longer bake gifts except for the family. I like to send the "kids" home with goodies. Need to bake some more pumpkin tea bread for the Christmas table and to give the kids as it makes two loaves. DH is letting some of "his" bananas brown for banana bread for our two grandsons, who recently discovered they like it, even the 14 month old.
carol_in_california
13 years ago
I think I will make some pumpkin (Kabocha squash puree) oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and some lemon brownies.....and maybe some applesauce spice bread.
Or I may just not bake this year.
And, if I decide to bake I will make some homemade artisan bread, too.
Your champagne jelly sounds good!
whidbeykathy
13 years ago
Last year I made LOTS of candy. This year I am making PW cinnamon rolls. ( I already made them once for friends) There are a dozen of us who in our neighborhood and we always do a goodie swap.

Here is a link that might be useful: Great rolls
shea
13 years ago
Oh my, Kathy, are those rolls as good as they sound, and look?? I might just have to add those to my list, as well as the champagne jelly! One question about the recipe. It calls for a bag of powdered sugar for the frosting. Around here a bag comes in at least two sizes. Do you know the size of bag to use? I'm assuming a 1 lb. bag?
sharon_fl
13 years ago
I do the same thing I've done for the past 25 years or more. I buy 3 cases of jelly jars at the grocery store and I make 2 kinds of my homemade salad dressings-everyone gets 1 of each...of my Zesty French dressing and my PA Dutch sweet 'n sour Bacon dressing. I like this because I can make up a couple gallons of each-a week ahead and portion it out the days I need to give the gift.
Marilyn Sue McClintock
13 years ago
I made these today for Christmas gifts, wouldn't call them goodies though! I made two five gallon buckets of laundry soap to give to one daughter and a granddaughter. I will tell them when they are empty to bring them back and I will make another batch for them.

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country_bumpkin_al
13 years ago
I'm making a few bottles of Vanilla Extract! It won't be "ready" to use by Christmas, but will be in a couple of months.
tobygirl
13 years ago
As much as I love to bake, for various reasons, no one in my family wants gifts of homemade goodies. So this year I made hanging suet/nut/dried fruit feeders in various holiday shapes for those who feed the birds.
jannie
13 years ago
This year I made cookies:
1. Package Duncan Hines brownies (with walnuts)
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3. Russian Tea cakes
4. Spritz cookies
5. Pillsbury Sugar cookies
Made 5 gift boxes, assorted. Two for SILS, one for BIL and wife, one for my Mom and one for hospital staff where I get dialysis. Recipes not included, two are store bought, easy, the rest you can Google. I used to make rum balls, this year I don't have time.
vicki_lv_nv
13 years ago
Tobygirl...you can send them to me. I would want them. :) I don't do any goodie gifts. But I need to think about it. I need to do something for the neighbors!
whidbeykathy
13 years ago
Shea..the rolls are better than they look! The first batch made 7 pans, and I passed them out to friends for brunch.
I will make a double batch for the neighborhood exchanges. The frosting I just used a bag of the confection sugar, I think it was 1 pound. This time I am also cutting back on the maple flavoring, it was pretty strong.
sunnyinwisc
13 years ago
I made a homemade Irish Cream. The recipe made a gallon! I made it last week and it is supposed to made 3-4 weeks ahead of time. I dipped into to it tonight to try in a cup of coffee and oh my, is it ever good. I will split it in 3rds, and give two as gifts and one for me.

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