The story is about a pair of red mittens at Christmas. Maybe it involves a child who gets the red mittens as a Christmas gift and has some special adventures with them.
Well, in the Christmas Mittens Story, it could be that a family had a tradition of knitting Christmas mittens every year. One year, a young girl in the family decided to make some special mittens for her sick grandmother. She put all her love and Christmas spirit into making those mittens. When she gave them to her grandmother on Christmas morning, the grandmother felt so much better and it became a symbol of their love and the magic of Christmas.
One key element is the mittens themselves. They are the central item in the story. Another could be the Christmas setting, which gives the story its festive mood. Also, there might be a character, like a child or an animal, who has an interaction with the mittens.
Without reading the 'red mittens novel', we can only guess. Maybe there's a protagonist, let's call her Alice, who has the red mittens and she has a best friend, Bob. Alice's red mittens could be a family heirloom. There could also be an antagonist, perhaps a bully at school who teases Alice about her mittens. Or it could be that the main character is a lonely old man who finds the red mittens and they bring back memories of his lost love, and the other characters in the story are people from his past or present who interact with him in relation to these memories and the mittens.
The story is simple. Bernie's mittens just caught people's attention because of how cozy and out-of-place they seemed at the event. It became a lighthearted and relatable moment.
For a red cabbage recipe in a Christmas story, consider a pickled red cabbage. Cut the cabbage into small pieces and pack it into sterilized jars. Boil a mixture of vinegar, water, sugar, salt, and some spices like peppercorns and bay leaves. Pour the hot liquid over the cabbage in the jars and seal them. This pickled cabbage can be made weeks in advance and served during Christmas. It adds a tangy and crunchy element to the Christmas spread. In a Christmas story, it could be a family tradition passed down through generations, with the jars of pickled cabbage being a symbol of the family's togetherness during the holidays.