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Christmas Dinner Planning Contest
Christmas Dinner is one of the longest standing Christmas traditions.
Every family has their own way of preparing the food, serving the
dishes, what course follow which.
CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND
"For many of the islanders, this anniversary is memorable (apart
from all religious significance) because it evokes a great slaughter
of turkeys, geese and all kinds of game, a wholesale massacre of
fat oxen, pigs and sheep; they envisage garlands of black puddings,
sausages and saveloys . . . mountains of plum-puddings and oven-fulls
of mince-pies.... On that day no one in England may go hungry ....
This is a family gathering, and on every table the same menu is
prepared. A joint of beef, a turkey or goose, which is usually the
pièce de résistance, accompanied by a ham, sausages
and game; then follow the inevitable plum-pudding and the famous
mince pies."
Alfred Suzanne, La Cuisine anglaise et americaine (English and
American Cookery)
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