Some ingredients I get from local vendors. It's full of aromatic herbs, vegetables, mushrooms that are from my garden – well almost all of them. In the second half of the show, I’ll share my favorite gluten-free stuffing that I’ve been making for years. This story does have an herbal theme to it and as I read it, pay attention to the ingredients collected for the meal. The children are left alone to manage the farm and they decide to make the “Big Dinner.” As you expect – things don’t go as planned. This is a story is about a family living on a New Hampshire farm and the day before Thanksgiving their parents are called away for an emergency. I realize everyone is busy and I thought it would be fun to read to you a delightful short story by Louisa May Alcott – Its called “An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving” published as part of her collection of stories titled “Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag” in 1882. Two small boys sat on the wooden settle shelling corn for popping, and picking out the biggest nuts from the goodly store their own hands had gathered in October.Today is my Thanksgiving show, and I wanted to do something a little different. Savory smells were in the air on the crane hung steaming kettles, and down among the red embers copper sauce-pans simmered, all suggestive of some approaching feast.Ī white-headed baby lay in the old blue cradle that had rocked seven other babies, now and then lifting his head to look out, like a round, full moon, then subsided to kick and crow contentedly, and suck the rosy apple he had no teeth to bite. The big kitchen was a jolly place just now, for in the great fireplace roared a cheerful fire on the walls hung garlands of dried apples, onions, and corn up aloft from the beams shone crook-necked squashes, juicy hams, and dried venison-for in those days deer still haunted the deep forests, and hunters flourished. November had come the crops were in, and barn, buttery, and bin were overflowing with the harvest that rewarded the summer’s hard work. They were poor in money, but rich in land and love, for the wide acres of wood, corn, and pasture land fed, warmed, and clothed the flock, while mutual patience, affection, and courage made the old farm-house a very happy home. Sixty years ago, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a house full of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. Manufactured in the United States of America Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.įirst Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012
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