Grandma's Holiday Box

25 old-fashioned Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes from Grandma Betty's box, with the real cost of every dish, the whole Thanksgiving dinner counted, and a calm plan for the big day.

The holidays shouldn't put you in debt. Betty set a table for fourteen every Thanksgiving, and the turkey was the only splurge. Everything around it came out of the pantry.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Thanksgiving dinner: the turkey, sage bread stuffing, pan gravy without the giblets, mashed sweet potatoes, green bean bake from scratch, fresh cranberry sauce, corn pudding, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie and mock pecan pie

• A small-table option: roast turkey legs for two to four

• The day after: turkey frame soup, turkey hash, turkey pot pie and turkey croquettes

• Christmas baking: cranberry orange bread, rolled sugar cookies, gingerbread men, cocoa fudge, peanut brittle and stollen

• Christmas morning: sausage bake, overnight cinnamon rolls, cooked eggnog and Christmas punch

The whole Thanksgiving dinner for 8 comes to $62 at national average prices, about $7.75 a plate, and the 14 lb turkey feeds the weekend too.

Plus an hour-by-hour Thanksgiving Day plan, from thawing the bird on Saturday to carving at 1:45.

35 pages made to read on your phone in the kitchen. Instant PDF download. The pies use Betty's Pie Crust from Grandma Betty's Recipe Box.