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A Traditional English Christmas Dinner

Our Christmas pages have moved to projectbritain.com/Xmas/ The Christmas Dinner is the main Christmas meal and is traditionally eaten at mid-day or early afternoon on Christmas Day in England, and also in the rest of Britain. © copyright of projectbritain.com The Traditional Christmas Dinner A traditional English and British Christmas dinner includes roast turkey or goose, brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, cranberry sauce, rich nutty stuffing, tiny sausages wrapped in bacon (pigs in a blanket) and lashings of hot gravy. © copyright of projectbritain.com For pudding (dessert) we eat a rich, fruity pudding which is doused in flaming brandy – said to ward off evil spirits. This rich, fruity pudding is called the Christmas Pudding. Follow this link to read more about the Christmas pudding Photographs of food eaten Roast Turkey covered in bacon Roast Potatoes Pigs in a Blanket (sausages wrapped in bacon) Brussels Sprouts and chestnuts Parsnips and Swede Roasted Gammon Ginger Bread Stuffing by Nigella Lawson from Nigella's Christmas Kitchen (Recipe) Stuffing Bread Sauce (recipe) Cranberry Sauce ( recipe) A Turkey Wishing Tradition A Christmas tradition involving the turkey is to pull its wishbone. This is one of the bones of the turkey which is shaped like the letter 'Y'. Two people will each hold an end and pull. The person left with the larger piece of the bone makes a wish. copyright of projectbritain.com Christmas Crackers Traditionally a Christmas cracker is placed next to each plate on the Christmas dinner table. When the crackers are pulled, out falls a colourful party crown, a toy or gift and a festive joke. (Click here to find out more about crackers) Interesting Fact about a Christmas Dinner One notable medieval English Christmas celebration featured a giant, 165-pound pie. The giant pie was nine feet in diameter. Its ingredients included 2 bushels of flour, 20 pounds of butter, 4 geese, 2 rabbits, 4 wild ducks, 2 woodcocks, 6 snipes, 4 partridges, 2 neats' tongues, 2 curlews, 6 pigeons and 7 blackbirds. It is said that Henry VIII was the first English King to enjoy turkey. However, it wasn't until early 20th century that eating turkey became fashionable at Christmas. © copyright of projectbritain.com Christmas Pudding Back to the top © Copyright - please read All the materials on these pages are free for educational use only. You may not redistribute, sell or place the content of this page on any other website or blog without written permission from Mandy Barrow, Woodlands Junior School. If you have any questions about the use of these materials please email us at: woodlandsweb@hotmail.com

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I left Woodlands in 2003 to work in Kent schools as an ICT Consulatant.
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