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Well as you properly have
noticed I come from Denmark, and I would like to tell you how we
celebrate Christmas where I live.
At first we go totally crazy in December, actually some does in November - you now decorating shops and hanging decorations over the street and thing like that.
Every year people says that they can't handle all these activity and stress about Christmas, but I..... love it, I decorate my own home at the first day of December and depending on the date I make One decoration before December, with candle for the first Sunday in advent (4 weeks before Christmas) I like very much to make these decorations with candle and spruce and every year I have a new theme and color for the decoration I use very large candles so they can burn all the month.
Another thing I do is to bake cookies, my favorites are cookies called vanilla wreathes (I don't now the real name in English), and I will bring you my very special recipe some where else on the site.
Well in Denmark we celebrate Christmas on the 24th of December in the evening, I am gather with my family and we meat about 18.00 a clock and then we eat roasted duck and roasted pork with bacon rind and to this we eat both ordinary cocked potatoes and potatoes roasted in sucker on a pan, we call them brown potatoes.
For desert we eat a kind of rice pudding called Ris a' la mande, it is cold and mixed with whipped cream and some sucker and a spice of vanilla, and the most important thing a lot if chopped almond and only ONE is whole, and the person who gets the whole almond has won the almongift.
After all this eating we take a break listens to some Christmas music, and then to the highlight of the evening, now we dance around the Christmas tree, and were I live our tree is all up to the ceiling, and very beautiful with lot's of glass ball's and it is still decorated as it was when I was a child.
We usually sing and dance around the tree for about 15 minutes, then the children(my sisters) cannot wait any longer and, they bring out the gifts and we talk and later in the evening when things are a little more quiet we drink coffee, eat Christmas cookies and special Christmas candy and the rest of the evening is more or leash dedicated to the kids.
In Denmark the shops are closed at the 24th of December and the next two days are holidays as well, and we have ceremonies for these days to, my husband and I gather with my family one of the holiday's and the same we do with HI's family on the other holiday, we get together for lunch and maybe for a work where I of course bring my lovely dog "Mads"and this year I will also bring our new puppy "Cadiz".
Three years ago there was a white Christmas in Denmark that was fantastic, on the 24th of December the temperature was 21 below zero, and we live 100 meters from a very big lake and it was frozen from site to site, and Henning my husband (and a lot of other people) walked across and the worst for me was that he bring the dog with him, I told him, not even was I perhaps going to loose my beloved husband but also my lovely dog Mads, that I couldn't imagine.
Well nothing happened and the story was that we had a very cold winter, but it was also very beautiful with all the snow and frosty weather.
It can be a god idea to put
the dough into the fridge for an hour to cool it down, it makes
it easier to work with.
We usually use a mincing machine with a special tool for vanilla wreathes with a shape of a star and you make the peace's 8-10 centimeters long and put the ends together to make a ring.
After this you put the rings on a baking sheet with some baking paper on.
Bake the vanilla wreathes in an 200 degrees Celsius warm oven for 8 minutes or until the vanilla wreathes starts to get a light brown color.
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