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Christmas in colonial Williamsburg was an excuse not to entertain for a day, but for weeks on end. Besides attending church activities, the guests enjoyed parties, balls and hunts. They enjoyed ice skating, card playing, drinking wine or wassail—and eating. Many of our favorite holiday foods became popular in those days: oysters, eggnog, hams, fruit cake, and on and on.
One particular edible m centerpiece, the Williamsburg apple cone, can be constructed to brighten modern banquet tables. The colonial Williamsburg residents used fruit as the exclusive source of color in a holiday decor centered around greenery— ivy, holly, cedar, rosemary and yule logs. The pyramids
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