KINGS LANDING CHRISTMAS
One of my favourite places has kicked it up a notch at Christmas 2021 by opening the historic site for two weekends of the holiday season! The day was brisk but clear and the company of my spouse and three friends just perfect. Enjoy a look at Kings Landing,New Brunswick.
Each doorway was bedecked so beguilingly…
Hubby jokingly staging an outhouse visit…
Stone homes make my heart pitter-patter
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| The old ribbon caught my eye |
We attended a portion of an Anglican service complete with carols…
This tea pattern… woah!
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| The simpler the better… |
The St John River hugs the site and is just beginning to ice over
The gingerbread men emerge fragrant and enticing
These made the most wonderful little gingerbread men. Coming from the hearth added to the taste but I made them at home and halved the recipe. The remaining directions are: refrigerate at least an hour, roll out to about 1/4 inch and cut into shapes. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 minutes or until just done.
My hubby loves this clock- and it all wrapped up in a bow for him!
The birth and death room: found in most middle class homes of the era
Anglican church
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| Through the berries |
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| The door to Kings Head Inn. The site offers Christmas meals with period entertainment, candlelight, story telling and sherry. |
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This is the result of a cookie swap. New Brunswick is in love with butter tarts at Christmas. I made German
Vanillekipferl- a buttery cookie with vanilla sugar and ground almonds but I used pecans. |
11 comments:
What a lovely display of photos.
Thank-you for sharing the cookie recipe, I will need to try it for Christmas.
I totally love the tree, sparse but beautiful.
Merry Christmas
Catherine
Just Beautiful pictures !!!! Hope you were able to eat a meal at the pretty table . Looks so magical !
It’s a yummy recipe . I made mine thin. The tree made me smile.
I didn’t get to eat there. The historic actors actually sit and have meals that are made on the hearth. It’s kind of weird when you happen to be there at meal time- just watching people eat makes me feel the intruder. The Christmas meals open to the public have gotten very very expensive. They space the tables out for safety and charge for it. Ah well
What a lovely place to visit this time of year especially!
The gingerbread recipe sounds a lot like my grandmother's
Cathy
So love visiting historic homes and even better yet to see them decked out for Christmas. Thanks so much for sharing! I also love stone houses and we watch Stone House Revival on tv. Janice
Perhaps I have not much of a social life these days, but you would have laughed had you known how excited I was to see a post from you pop up about Christmas at King's Landing! I really would love to visit there some day. But, wow...what a great deal of work for only 2 weekends!! I, too, love that beautiful China pattern...and I'm not one for fussy ware. And those photos of those beautiful red berries!! Do you know what they are?? It seems that I should know them. Thanks for a beautiful photographic diversion....I could almost imagine being there...150 years ago!! ~Robin~ (PS...I LOVE Hubby's clock as well!! I have always wanted an old one and only saw one for sale once...and circumstances did not permit its purchase. Sigh.)
It’s my magic place. The gingerbread has no egg, don’t know if that’s common?
I haven’t heard of that show. Maybe they don’t have it in Canada but I’ll look.
It’s 20 minutes away so we could put you up! The berries are chokecherry. Underused in our province but plentiful. It’s poisonous to our usual wildlife of moose and deer but great for humans. We made syrup this year but didn’t add enough sugar and it ‘twas sour.
Thank you for sharing the post, really wonderful post about decoration..
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