What are some unique foods that /ck/ has during the Christmas

>>7187054

>no marzipan in the middle

Savage.

>>7187054
Keep them locked up and no one will steal your Dresdens

keep them underground and you wont get your dresdens bombed

move to a better neighborhood so they stop stealing your Dresdens

>>7187054
Is that fruitcake bread?

>>7187086


its a stolen Dresden

give it back to Germany op

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>>7187067

Christmas proper has no specific meal or dish associated it that I can speak of other than crunchy balls of fried lemon-flavoured dough arranged in a pyramid and dressed with honey and hundreds-and-thousands.

Because we're about evenly split between Roman and Byzantine Catholics, we have three separate major holidays during Christmastide, which lasts thirty-one days: St Nick's day/little Christmas on 6th December, greater Christmas on the 25th and the Epiphany on 6th January, each with its own traditions, as well as Sylvester from 31st December through 2nd January, appeasing both traditions. On the Friday immediately before the big Christmas we eat twelve different preparations of seafood, one for each apostle. Also blanched kale or broccoli dressed with lemon and garlic and fresh fennel dipped in salt.

Besides the honey balls, other Christmastide sweets include soft, circular biscuits made of vermouth-and-cheese dough and flavoured with bitter almonds and candied lemon served during Sylvester and these baked, honey-sweetened hard biscuits flavoured with almonds, black pepper and nutmeg on Epiphany. St Nick's
day has brioche and chocolates but, again, no specific meal in particular.

During Sylvester (though occasionally on Christmas itself), lots of people make what I could only call a 'double chicken soup,' made by cooking a young chicken, signifying the new year, in the broth/stock made by boiling an old hen, signifying the year before. The name translates as 'old and new soup.' It's a pagan tradition that was originally done on the Winter solstice that some kept around for Christmas tradition after the area was Romanised or moved it slightly beyond that for Sylvester/New Year.

We eat a dinner of garlic-stewed lentils and sausages made of hollowed out trotters stuffed with pork mince on the 31st.

>>7187054
looks about right, fucking tight ass loaf. its hard to find a nice loaf these days, most places skimp on the butter, marzipan and cherries. some even use green glace` cherries instead of angelica. basically just ranting cause i cant find shit from my childhood