Gingerbread and gingerbread cookies, muffins and cakes are not surprising that, according to statistics, during the winter holiday feasts, Europeans manage to gain from one to four kilograms of excess weight.
On the covenants of Viking
Curious christmas dish from Scandinavia - Round Donuts EBESKEVER. They can be bolden by echoing of the war, because the legend says that for the first time the EBLEESKER was cooked by the Viking Detachment, won in the bloody battle. So an important event of the warriors decided to mark dinner with pancakes, and since they were not captured in the pan with him to campaign, the shields and helmets were used as a kitchen inventory - this explains the unusual shape of the donuts. It is no less interesting that although the name of the EBBEVER is listed literally as "apple slices", there are no apples in the modern recipe for Danish Christmas baking. Doughs for donuts are made of wheat flour, eggs, sugar, oils and cream, and there is a Christmas delicacy relies with raspberry, currald or strawberry jam.
Curious Christmas Dish Right from Scandinavia - Round Donuts Ebest
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DROVLY DROVA
Significant information about the holiday yol has been preserved. The very long night of the year, the ancient Germann peoples considered the time of the revival of the Sunny King, who with the arrival of spring warmed with its rays a frozen land, and at the same time he endowed the seeds stored in the barns. The dwellings were decorated with branches of ostolist, mistletoe and ivy, and in addition, the house was introduced into the house, which was supposed to set fire to the fireplace on the night from 21 to December 22 and leave to smolden for twelve days. In Germany, after the adoption of Christianity, the pagan tradition was transformed into an adopted today to dress up the Christmas tree, but in the neighboring France, Yolskaya is present in the houses and to this day. True, in the form of a sweet roll of biscuit dough. In order to give the roll more portrait similarity with a log, the sweetness generously covered with chocolate cream and whipped cream, sprinkled with sugar powder, symbolizing snow, and decorate edible figures in the form of leaves and mushrooms. By the way, the modern name of the dessert BU ^ Che de NOIL, or the Christmas is full, fastened in French only in the first half of the 20th century. Before him was called exclusively Yolsky.
From Italy with love
With the Italian Christmas cake Panton, the adulsive legend is also associated with the Christian traditions, no relation to Christian traditions. However, unlike the harsh Scandinavian folklore in the center of its plot - not good feats, but amourous interest. It is believed that the recipe for the Christmas Hood, the name of which is decrypted as "Bread Tony", invented in the XIII century a certain young man awesome, passionately in love with the daughter of the baker and who wanted to impress her father. Burning from passion, he invented the recipe for a gentle female with the Cucatami, who shared with Tony - the fear of his worn. Further - as it should be in fairy tales: I climbed out on my beloved, and her father-Bullman made a whole state on the sale of Kulichi. However, if you distract from the legends and turn to the story, then the custom is at Christmas Panetton, most likely is associated with strict data rules adopted in Milan in the XV century. According to them, the poor and people of low origin even if there is no money, they did not have the right to buy baking from wheat flour, which was considered the privilege of nobility. Christmas was the only day in a year, when anyone received the right to taste the valuable white bread, regardless of its origin or social status.
Italian christmas cake panettone
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Breadside
Icelandic tradition to fry on the eve of Christmas Laufabrauð sheet bread also has pagan roots. Not in vain on thin, like paper napkins, pellets cut out ornaments in the form of snowflakes, runes or aspoles of the northern light. By the way, a simple snack for a couple of centuries ago was considered in Iceland of food gods, because wheat in a cold local climate did not recovery, and there were no mills on the island until the XVIII century. At that time, the delivery of flour in Iceland was engaged in Danes. At the rights of monopolists, they shamelessly looked up prices and often could sell the product a pretty spoiled mold. As a result of the inhabitants of the island, life forced to learn how to prepare incredibly thin pellets, in order to all family members during the festive feast of the treats enough. By the way, in Icelandic Christmas and to this day they call the word "yol."
How did other christmas sweets appear?
Tourron - Christmas sweetness from honey, egg squirrel, sugar and almond, popular in Spain, Italy, Czech Republic and France. The first Recipe of the Turron is found in the Spanish culinary directory of the XVI century, but his prototype of Nuu in Europe was done during the times of ancient Rome.
It is said that the recipe for christmas gingerbread and cookies brought to Europe in 992 by Armenian monk Grigory Nikopolsky. He taught art bake their French, and then the tradition was adopted by residents of Poland, Germany and Sweden.
The main christmas dish is the burning flame pudding. It is preparing a few weeks before the holiday, before serving the table, Brandy displays and is set on fire, which symbolizes the passion of Christ. The dish was invented in the XIX century, when fruits and spices from the colonies began to arrive in the UK.
In addition to Pantonon, another popular Christmas delicacy in Italy - Padoro Cupcake, the name of which is translated as "Golden Bread". His modern recipe came up in 1894 a native of Verona Domenico Malelegatti. He was inspired by the records of the desserts, which the Venetian aristocrats were injured in the XIII century.
German christmas cupcake bed
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German Christmas Cupcake in the Middle Ages was terribly tasteful. It was prepared on water with rapeseed oil, and permission to add butter oil into the dough to the Germans had to be needed from Pope Innocent VII. Now the shredded is shitted, nuts and raisins, and sprinkle with sugar powder top.