Christmas and festive recipes on Wikibooks
If you’re anything like me, as the dark days bed in I start to look for treats and sparkles of all kinds to brighten up the winter days and nights. One of my favourite places to explore this time of year are the recipe sections on Wikibooks. Wikibooks is one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone (including you) can edit.
Wikibooks went online on 10 July 2003 and operates on the copyleft principle followed by all of the Wikimedia project. Contributors towards the WikiBooks maintain the property rights to their contributions, which are openly licensed using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GNU Free Documentation License to ensure sure that the texts and any derivative works will always remain freely distributable and reproducible.
Wikibooks has two sub-projects; Wikijunior which is aimed at children and the Cookbook which is a collection of recipes and culinary topics such as the Christmas Recipes category we’re highlighting today.
The recipes have been contributed by everyday people from all over the world, sometimes including mini stories of where the recipe is from and its meaning to the contributor.
On my list to try this year is an Orange Bread recipe, originally called “Grandma-Ag’s orange bread” by the contributor who added the personal note:
“This bread is a fond memory of my childhood, visiting Agnes Frances Primm, my Grandma-Ag. As a young adult, I tried to duplicate the recipe, and unable, I went back and begged her for the secrets of it. When I asked her how long it had taken to develop the tricky recipe, she flattened my ego by telling me she’d gotten it out of a magazine years before! I like to make it for Christmas.”
Poticza, Slovenian nutbread, CC BY 4.0, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/File:Poticza_nut_bread_2020.png
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Orange_Bread
The other recipe I’m going to try my hand at is Poticza, described as “a Slovenian nut roll, often seen around Christmas and Easter. This recipe, adapted from The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion, makes two standard loaves of very rich bread”.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Poticza
Wish me luck!
Christmas Recipes on WikiBooks
Header image: Four domestic dogs are seated on two chairs waiting expectantly for food to be served, surrounded by eight vignettes. Etching by F. Paton. by Frank Paton – Europeana.eu Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom – CC BY.
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