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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="630"] A Victorian Christmas card from 1871. © Hulton Archive and Getty Images[/caption]Dear Readers,Ah.. it's that time of the year again. The semester/term has come to an end, essays and  exam papers have been written and graded and we're all heading home to our families.  The team at the Recipes Project will be taking a mini break to spend time with our closest and dearest and to read and test out some... um... 21st century recipes.  As your editors, Lisa and I would like to thank all our wonderful contributors for sharing their fantastic research with us in 2013 and all our readers for sticking with us and for their insightful comments.See you all in 2014 - we're back on New Year's Day and we've already got some great posts planned... watch this space.Happy holidays everyone!Elaine and Lisa