Merry Christmas CPL. May the pressure-star shine bright on you all. Our tradition here at home is christmas-turkey with waldorf-salat, White potatoes, caramel-potatoes, hot red cabbage, apples with Rowan-gelly, Brown sause + risalamande with cherry-sause for dessert. In the risalamande we hide 1 hole almond and the one that gets this almond gets also a exstra "almond-present". Then we dance around the tree singing and then gives presents from under the tree to each others. When the kids were younger santaclaus came visiting with a sack of gifts merry Christmas (santa) Claus C
And a very merry Christmas to all CPL lampers' and their families, from us down here in deepest Essex on Sea
I'll have a go at answering that for you. In denmark (and maybe the other scandinavian countries) it is standard to have ris a-la-mande for dessert Christmas eve. You can see a good description of the tradition here .
The almondpresent can not be far from a English tradition my grandma told me about. She said the English hides a small thing of gold in the plumpudding, such as a goldring or a thimble and that would in a nearby future get the finder rich or married. Is that correct Claus C
That's exactly right Claus... There is an old custom here of hiding a 'reward' in a Christmas Pudding. Christmas Pudding may date back to Medieval times and is also known as Plum Pudding. The traditional reward is a silver threepence or sixpence piece (not generally available now) and was believed to bring wealth to the finder in the coming year. Your Danish Christmas dinner is fundamentally like ours in the UK and it is good to see your photos... One thing we were not sure of - what is Risalamande? We liked your little dog too - very cute... Our dog, Munch, says Happy Christmas to yours
We also have a tradition with something hidden in a pancake! On 'regular' occasions though, it is not so good to find what's hidden in the pancake as the finder is 'volunteering' to do the dishwashing at the end of the evening....... We have a dishwasher!!! Best regards, Wim
Thanks Greg and give back my regards. The dog is actually my brothers while visiting here at Christmas eve, a King Charles Cavalier I think. A real cutie. Your dog looks like a English setter? If so, I had such once - my favorite dog. Personal mind and very fast runner. The risalamand is very easy and tasty as also described under Nils's link above. Here is a full recipe in English: http://nordicfoodliving.com/risalamande-danish-rice-dessert/ A good thing is first to put in the Vanilla after it is finished on the stove and adding a 2 tablespoons of White sherry dont make it worser either. I guess the most common birds for the Danish table is ducks or goose for the mainmenu. It was funny to see via Nils's link what people eats in other countries as traditionel christmasfood. Some of it I would never think of as such, but a lot of tasty stuff is served and is to be tested here back home for sure over the year to come. Claus C
Thanks Claus, I will hava a try making Risalamand, perhaps in a few days for New Year. Glad you are all having a good Christmas.... I recognised your brother's dog as a King Charles, but ours is of questionable parentage He is a 'rescued' dog, originally from Ireland, and mostly Border Collie (sheep dog) mixed with something else that was probably quite big - he weighs over 30kg...
Not gold, but we have always hidden silver threepence pieces in ours... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threepence_%28British_coin%29#mediaviewer/File:British_threepence_1899.jpg Originally the coins were almost pure silver but around 1920 the silver content was reduced to 50% silver. These were produced up until 1946 after which they were replaced by a much larger and heavier nickel/brass coin - no good for Christmas puddings. The threepence went out of circulation entirely in 1970.
