Christmas Food

as I am reading the recipe I am thinking, the containers to cook it has to be possibly something to work on, will have to research some and see what I have. I am pretty creative, and I think I have a mold tucked away that will work. thanks @Jack McHammocklashing ( this is for the Christmas pudding)

 

As this thread is about food, I have to ask...how much did they charge for crabs?

Continuing with Christmas food. Its quite different here compared to the UK. Normally, it consists of four courses. The first course comprises several types of raw pickled herring, salmon, boiled eggs and black bread. All washed down with Christmas Beer (a special brew) and of course several flavoured schnapps. Second course will be boiled potatoes, Christmas ham, brown cabbage, and a few other items. All washed down of course with the aforementioned beer and several schnapps. By this time, we have come to the point where we was down the beer and schnapps with rice pudding and strawberry sauce. As the beer and schnapps have now ran out, the final course is coffee and whisky....

A little history lesson. In Denmark, Santa Claus was considered to be a bad figure, a ghost and therefore a heathen. They would leave a bowl of the previously mentioned rice pudding out for his visit. In the centre of it would be a cross made out of butter. The idea was to get some Christianity in him.

Danes claim that the idea of Santa then spread to Sweden, Norway and after that to the rest of the world. That idea solves two things. First, the real reason we never see Santa is because he is a ghost. Second, we can never find his home at the North Pole because he lives in Denmark, and are therefore looking for him in the wrong place.

 

Extract on mince pies from Wiki below , the meat content was reduced over the centuries , and now is just spiced fruit. Extremely yummy , warm with sour cream !:santa clap:

A mincemeat pie , and fruit mince pie in Australia and New Zealand is a sweet pie of British origin, filled with a mixture of dried fruits and spices called "mincemeat", that is traditionally served during the Christmas season in the English-speaking world. Its ingredients are traceable to the 13th century, when returning European crusaders brought with them Middle Eastern recipes containing meats, fruits and spices.

The early mince pie was known by several names, including "mutton pie"[citation needed], "shrid pie"[citation needed] and "Christmas pie[citation needed]". Typically its ingredients were a mixture of minced meat, suet, a range of fruit, and spices such as cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Served around Christmas, the savoury Christmas pie (as it became known) was associated with supposed Catholic "idolatry" and during the English Civil War was frowned on by the Puritan authorities. Nevertheless, the tradition of eating Christmas pie in December continued through to the Victorian era, although by then its recipe had become sweeter and its size markedly reduced from the large oblong shape once observed. Today, the mince pie remains a popular Christmas sweet in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, New England, and other parts of Anglophone world.

 

Us vegetarians still seem to be having trouble convincing others about the benefits of a veggie meal

 

There are lots of similarities between Santa and the norse figure Odin, before he did his stint hanging upside down from a tree after losing an eye.

Prior to his misfortune, he was the collector of lost souls. Legend has it that he'd ride around in winter on his sleigh, pulled by a team of dogs rather than reindeer, basically collecting those that had failed to survive the harsh cold of winter. His sleigh left no tracks in the snow so logically, it must have flew. Some people would leave offerings outside their homes, in the hope that Odin would leave them alone.

The bit about Santa bringing gifts comes from a different legend entirely. A pervy old rich dude in Italy enabled the local nubile beautiful poor lady to go to school by, as pure skill and no lies whatsoever would have it, he managed to throw a small purse of gold coins through her open bedroom window, and it miraculously landed inside the stocking hanging from the end of her bed. Pervy rich bloke was never in said bedroom, and said young lady didn't give anything to win such financial reward or anything. That version of Santa gives us the tradition of hanging stockings on Christmas eve.

So basically, current tradition is a mishmash of at least two. We put sherry and pies out to ward off the reaper, while hanging stockings in the hope that a pervy old man will sneak into our rooms through the night.

 

It might be because nobody is willing to tell us convincingly where we can get our B vitamins from, and how we can get enough protein without too many carbs.

It must be possible. There are plenty of herbivores that are living proof that it can be done, but the details as to how are not forthcoming.

 

I recall watching a programme on TV where a historian recreated the "traditional" mince pie (included minced meat - as opposed to mincemeat ). It was fascinating viewing: certainly the "pie" was a family sized effort, equal to a large, family sized pork pie; I had to take his word for it that it was tasty

Depends on where you lived: Adam Smith's invisible hand springs to mind

 

Adam Smith's "invisible" hand?

 

https://www.kitchenscookshop.co.uk/...basins-bowls/mason-cash-pudding-basin-7-sizes
Our Christmas pudding goes into five of these Mason Cash Pudding bowls Ceramic
Fill to top lay greaseproof paper over lapped and tie with string

 

Funny how the RAF POLICE, THE RED CAPS AND THE NAVAL PATROL, All know where the bad places are, They must have previous knowledge do you not think

 

I just might have something like that already. back to the basement to look.

 

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Any drunk sailor found in Commercial Road was dragged around the corner to Pitt Street, as the crushers found it easier to spell