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Leap for Joy at The Savoy
Every holiday has its traditional recipes. Leap Year, however, is not typically associated with food traditions in modern Western culture. Many people are given to party themes with cookies and other confections based on the Leap Frog idea, but I find this to be somewhat lacking. The most interesting modern recipe I found for today is the Leap Year Cocktail, a modern sour cocktail with a well-documented history mixed with “sundry notes of amusement and interest concerning them”. The Prohibition years in the United States may have tried to stop one industry, but it resulted in a boon for others, … Continue reading →
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