Christmas dinner: what is eaten on Christmas Day?

Traditional Christmas dinner, in the earliest days of the popularity of eating roast pig, ham; later is turkey, salmon. In short, it was meat-based. In addition to eating meat, Christmas dinner must also have red wine. Christmas red wine has a special way to drink: add brown sugar, orange peel, almonds, raisins and other condiments in the wine, and then on the fire while heating while stirring (pay attention to not open the pot), and finally drizzled with a little vodka, after the pot, a cup of down, really fragrant and warm. Another part of the Christmas meal is desserts, such as cookies, cakes and so on. These are usually prepared on Christmas Eve, when the family sits down together to make them, and children love to take part in this kind of fun they find, as Christmas pastries can be made in their favorite shapes and flavors. In Swedish-speaking countries, Christmas pastries are made with a whole almond on purpose, and whoever eats the only intact almond is the lucky winner of the New Year. Lucky God of course, there are prizes, Scandinavians award to the lucky God is often a wearing a red bow tie piglet-shaped cookie; in the Netherlands and Germany is a small black Peter. It can be seen, in the West to eat Christmas dinner can not only be a mouthful, but also can enjoy a very interesting culture