how we eat

December is the month of holiday baking, when we trot out recipes that haven’t seen the light of day since last winter: shortbread, gingerbread, mince tarts. If baking isn’t your jam, you’re strapped for time in a season of obligations or you’re full of sugar cookies and need something more nutrient-dense but still celebratory, holiday no-bake-ing is an option.

Sugarplums, fruit and nut confections popularized by Clement Clarke Moore’s 19th-century poem A Visit from St. Nicholas , can be made in the food processor in a few minutes, rolled into balls and be ready to go. They’re the ultimate cupboard-cleaner: Rummage through your pantry for dried or candied fruit, nuts, seeds, oats, nut or seed butter, cocoa and preserves – anything from honey to marmalade to mincemeat, aiming

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