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.
We will need a lot of desserts, cakes and pies to celebrate the New Year holidays, for guests and friends. Try my version of cooking on an open fire! The dough turns out crumbly, the filling is delicious! Amazing! Come in, treat yourself.
Like everything New Year’s, baking seems to be the most magical, fragrant, festive. This is not inferior to anything, except that only Easter cakes. I suggest you please your guests with a tea party with these buns. I guarantee they’ll like it.
And who can say what the most Christmas taste is after tangerines and a Christmas tree, and maybe even ahead of them?! Cinnamon!!!, because it’s enough just to sprinkle it on pastries and the mood, as if by magic, becomes joyful and cheerful, like on New Year’s Eve! These buns are sure to cheer you up and give you moments of happiness. To heal.
Today I will treat you to a Slovak holiday basket, which is being prepared for Christmas and New Year. In Slovak, Christmas is called Vianoche, so the planet is called Vianochka. They eat a bath not only with butter, honey, tea and coffee, but also with smoked meats, ham and sausage. As you like, Vianoche is present on every table. There is a large selection in stores, but real housewives, of course, bake themselves, and each has its own recipe! I offer you the recipe that I liked the most.
New Year’s pastries always turn out to be unusual and very tasty. I propose to bake an interesting shortbread with the addition of walnuts. Topping for products can be made from ground nuts, cocoa powder and powdered sugar. And for the filling you will need a bar of white chocolate.
Incredibly easy to prepare and delicious pie! And if you add caramel and boiled condensed milk instead of condensed milk and pour chocolate on top, you will get a Snickers…
This is a delicious dessert that can be prepared for a festive New Year’s table. Your family and friends will certainly like it, and the children will be delighted with it and will ask you to cook it more than once.
A party in the Black Forest is an unusual and delicious dessert! This is something like a hybrid of a Black Forest cake and a cheesecake. In addition, you do not need to bake anything except a biscuit for crumbs, which covers the top and sides, but… this is my personal change of the recipe, where the “pate” was decorated with a crumb of chocolate cookies.