As you know, there is a Catholic Christmas and an Orthodox Christmas, and at the same time it is difficult to find even two Catholic or Orthodox countries that would have absolutely identical Christmas dishes and Christmas menu. The Christmas table should not only saturate the family, but also symbolize abundance, the beginning of a new life. Traditional Christmas dishes in different countries are very diverse, in connection with the end of the fast, a variety of products are allowed. For example, from the end of November to January 7, the Orthodox Christmas fast lasts, the menu of the Christmas fast is a great way not only to be cleansed spiritually, but also physically. Eating during the Christmas fast excludes fatty animal food, fish can be eaten several times a week. But after the fast, the recipes for Christmas dishes are more diverse, there is meat, fish, and dairy products.
For the countries of Western Europe, Christmas baking recipes are especially characteristic of sweet dishes. At this time, houses and bazaars are really flooded with Christmas pastries. The recipe for Christmas baking is Christmas cookies, as well as Christmas gingerbread. Christmas cupcake and Christmas candy recipes are also very popular. There is even a special English Christmas cake in England. The recipe for Christmas cookies is simple, the main thing is a beautiful design. To please your loved ones and, especially, children, we offer you a recipe for Christmas gingerbread. You will need flour, sugar, soda, eggs, butter, cocoa, honey, spices. After mixing the ingredients and kneading the dough, it should be put in the refrigerator overnight so that it is infused and soaked with spices, in this case you will get especially fragrant Christmas gingerbread. The recipe for Christmas gingerbread will also require you to have a certain artistic taste, because it will be necessary to mold human figures, animals, or some geometric shapes from the dough. After that, the cookies are baked in the oven and decorated with icing. About the same way Christmas cookies are prepared. The recipe for a Christmas cake is very popular in England. It is prepared with dried fruits and nuts, soaked with some alcohol. For Orthodox Christians, Christmas sweets are primarily Christmas carols and Christmas pastries, for example, Christmas cake. The recipe that creates a holiday for children is lollipops in the form of cockerels. The ideal option for Christmas baking will be Christmas tea. It is made from black tea, ginger, cinnamon and orange peel.
Also in many European countries, a mandatory Christmas dish is a Christmas goose, a Christmas duck or a Christmas turkey. Christmas goose is prepared in Germany, Denmark, Greece etc. You will definitely not regret if a Christmas goose appears on your table. The Christmas goose recipe usually uses apples and prunes. Christmas turkey is a recipe that is typical for England and the USA. Meat dishes are often served with a Christmas salad, the recipe of which may differ in different countries.
I cook many different dishes from chicken ventricles. I offer a very simple, budget option. You may also want to cook this delicacy. It turns out very tasty. It looks beautiful on the festive table in the cut, looks good in sandwiches, you can take it with you to work or on a picnic. I give the cooking time without taking into account soaking and cooling.
Sometimes, when baking cakes and pastries, a small amount of cream or crumbs remains, with which the cake was decorated. So today I have a small amount of cream left from the cake that I baked the day before. Of course, it is impossible to prepare another full-fledged cake, but you can make a cake prepared according to a simplified recipe.
Tender pork tenderloin will become even tastier if it is fried and covered with glaze in port wine. A spicy side dish of diced beetroot is cooked for no more than half an hour. And all together is a festive dish that can be served not only to the New Year’s table.
Cookies are very soft and delicious! Very chocolate and, in my opinion, very New Year’s. We called it “New Year”. You will have to work a little, but the admiration of relatives and friends is guaranteed to you.
According to the source, these cookies are baked in Hungary on special days: wedding, Christmas, New Year. And its appearance corresponds to these holidays, and its taste: white, fluffy, delicate, airy. After reading the recipe and seeing 400 grams of flour, I thought that this amount of cookies would be just right for a wedding. I decided to cook half of this dish. When I tried it, I realized that I didn’t need a wedding or guests… I would have eaten everything myself!
As a child, I did not like meringue in any form! With age, something happens, and you start to look at things differently that you haven’t looked at before, in a different way! Meringue on my dessert list is one of those options. Now I’m trying different combinations of this sweet dish. And, I think, thanks to the lightness, delicate appearance, this is a very New Year’s treat. Therefore, I offer it to the festive table!
I remember the times when our mothers copied recipes from each other, shared them. Thus, many recipes have become not only classic, but also truly family. They have survived to the present day. What am I doing? This cupcake, I’m sure, if it had happened during the absence of the Internet, it would have been rewritten too.
This roll is a lifesaver stick. A series of holidays is approaching, you often don’t really want to cook, and it would be good to serve hot every day. I cook this roll (or two) a week or more before the New Year and freeze it. When the guests are on the doorstep, I send them directly into the oven in foil and serve them on the table in 40 minutes. Thanks to the pepper and cucumbers, the roll looks elegant in the cut. Cucumbers are better to take pickled, they are sweet and sour and especially good in this dish.