December 14, 2025

Weird Christmas Baking with Linda Raedisch

1 hour 19 minutes

Baking: Recipes & Stories from Tomb Offerings to Gingerbread Boys. Talk about disgusting food and wondrously delicious treats, along with some of the strange stories that lay behind them all

Buy the book direct from the publisher (Llewellyn). (Or that other place.)

Her author site at Llewellyn where you can also get her classic The Old Magic of Christmas.

Past episodes with me:

We talked about the strange, darker legends of Christmas.

and the history of elves/fairies and their relation to Christmas.

She also shared some writing advice for the story ConThology after helping me read the entries one year.

Music:

"Sweet Gingerbread Man" by Bradford Trojan

"Flaming Christmas Pudding" by The Swedish Shortsnouts

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