Ooooh...recipe please!?!
I actually got into a wee bit of an argument with my neighbor who insists that all Christmas decorations must be taken down the day after Christmas. I tried explaining to her that the Christmas season is just starting and the biblical reasons behind it(she is a fundamentalist protestant), but she just sniffed at me like I was some kind of crazy Catholic.
I find it interesting that for so many that are sola scriptura, they could overlook something so important as the Epiphany. Of course, most overlook John 6:55, but that's another story. =/
I have a homeschool Christian friend who celebrates, with their family, "Blessings Day" sometime in the fall and then they do NOT celebrate Christmas at all!!! Easter neither. They say they are pagan holidays.
I'm so sorry....
You are correct on the length of the Christmas season. It ends with the Baptism of the Lord. Some might say it ends with the Epiphany and Christ's public life starts with his baptism in the Jordan by John the Baptist.
We always kept our tree up through the Epiphany. It is a great teaching tool, because my children's friends would all want to know why our tree was still up.