One can hard­ly con­sid­er the Christ­mas sea­son for long, at least in the Eng­lish-speak­ing world, with­out the work of Charles Dick­ens com­ing to mind. That owes for the most part, of course, to A Christ­mas Car­ol, the novel­la that revived the pub­lic cul­ture of a hol­i­day that had been falling into desue­tude by the mid-nine­­teenth … Con­tin­ue read­ing Dis­cov­er 20 His­tor­i­cal Christ­mas Recipes: Fruit­cake, Gin­ger­bread, Fig­gy Pud­ding & More