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Foods Have Become Big Part Os
Christmas Season World-Wide
As with so many things
at the holiday season,
certain foods have
become traditional to
Christmas. It is in
teresting to note the wide
variation in the choice of
foods from one country to
another for this special
occasion.
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In east-central Europe
countries (Poland,
Austria, Czechoslovakia)
carp is the staple around
which the Christmas Eve
meal is planned and
goose is the delicacy
served on Christmas
Day.
England's Christmas
fixings include plum
pudding, mince pie (also
called shred pit) and
frumenty, a kind of
porridge of huled wheat
with sweetmeats. The
main meat courses may
be beef, brawn, fowl,
turkey or if one wants to
make a big display and
act "lord of manor".
Christmas Season Was
Once A Pagan Holiday
The ancient northern
Europeans, acutely
conscious of the
peregrinations of the Sun,
formed definite theories
about it.
They thought the sun
was a wheel revolving
around the earth, and
they observed that on one
particular day in
mid winter its ap
pearance and disap
pearance marked the
shortest day of the year.
This cycle was known
to them as the Hweol, and
it was a time of
celebrating.
As the pagan Yule
celebrations were
replaced by the feast of
Christmas, the festival
season extended from
Christmas Eve to the
Feast of the Epiphany.
This meant that the Yule
log had plenty of time big
as it used to be, to flame
and flicker before the last
of it had smoldered to
ashes.
In the agricultural
economy of the pre Civil
War South here in our
own country, the Yule log
was the means of
procuring a true holiday
for the field hands.
There was on many
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boar's head and peacock
in a pie.
Bob Cratchlt had goose
for his poor-man's
Christmas dinner and
during this time it seems
to have been the main
dish of most Englishmen
... However, through the
years it has been
displaced by turkey, for
plantations an accepted
unwritten rule that the
slaves would not have to
work outdoors so long as
the Yule log was alight.
A Way To Say Thanks
Here's an idea for the
wonderful way for
youngsters to say thank
you for Christmas
presents - and much
easier than persuading
them to write thank-you
notes!
Get someone to take a
Yule Tree Differs
Around The U.S.A.
The evergreen is the
traditional tree of
Christmas, but did you
know that the type of
evergreen preferred
differs greatly from one
part of the country to the
other?
Northeast the favorite
trees are the balsam fir
and the white spruce. In
Pennsylvania there are
three preferred over
no apparent reason.
The change seems to
have started quite a while
back, for Washington
Irving, writing about
1817, tells of turkeys on
the Christmas sideboard
at Bracebridge Hall.
Somewhat earlier, In
1796, it is recorded that an
anonymous traveler
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The workers would take
advantage of this custom,
and select the biggest and
toughest gum tree trunk
they could find.
picture of the youngster
showing him or her
holding or using the gift.
Then get him to write just
a few words of thanks on
a piece of paper or the
photo itself. Grandma, or
Uncle, is sure to be
doubly pleased!
others; Scotch pine,
spruce and red pine.
East Coast southerners
like red cedar and the
scarce but beautiful holly
tree, as well as red pine.
Christmas
Note From
Billy Graham
"God is always with us
but at Christmas we are
more intensely aware of
his presence. He looks out
at us from the faces of
those we love. He speaks
to us amid the sounds of
bells and the anthems of
praise. And His greatest
gift comes to our hearts
anew when we hear the
beautiful Christmas story
once again - and believe"
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could not get tran
sportation from Norwich
to London because the
regular stagecoach was
loaded down with
Christmas turkeys.
In France, it was the
custom to attend mid
night mass, then go home
to a simple meal, of
which the main dish was
blood sausage. This strict
ceremonial has become
transformed in she city
of Paris into the
Reveilion, a gorging of
rich foods, such as caviar
and goose liver paste and
washing them down with
heady wines.
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the inspiration of the Star. . .
the adoration of the Wise Men . . .
the legacy of Love.
May these joys and treasures be yours at Christmas.
Thanks for your good will.
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