The Yule Log
This is a holiday cake called the Yule Log also known as the Christmas Log or Buche de Noel. This cake that is made at Christmastime dates back to the 19th century. At this time rolled sponge cakes filled with jam or cream and covered with butter cream icing began to be mentioned in European cookbooks. They were usually decorated with marzipan or meringue. The rolled shape of the cake was to remind one of a log and was typically covered with chocolate butter cream to look like the “bark of a tree”. An interesting story is that in Paris Napoleon I of France issued a proclamation requiring households to keep their chimneys closed during the winter so that cold air would not get in and cause medical problems. It prevented Parisians …show more content…
Only at the turn of the century did the candy canes gain their red stripes and peppermint flavor. The body of the cane is white which represents the life that is pure and the red stripes are symbolic of the Lord’s sacrifice for man. In the 1920s Bob McCormack started making candy canes for his children, friends and local shopkeepers in Albany, Georgia. This was a long and tedious process so very few pieces of candy were made. Then in the 1950s Bob’s brother-in-law Gregory Keller, a Catholic priest invented a machine to make the canes. Bobs Candies Inc. became the largest producer of candy canes in the world.
Candy Cane facts:
• for 200 years it came in only one color – white.
• US Dec. 26 is National Candy Cane Day.
• world’s largest candy cane was created by Paul Ghinelli – 58 ft. 2 ¼ in.
• every year 1.76 billion candy canes are made
Christmas …show more content…
Poppy seeds are widely used for Christmas Eve dishes because they symbolize abundance and prosperity.
Fish dishes usually include herring, carp or pike. The fish symbolizes the ichthus a fish-like symbol which consists of two intersecting arcs resembling a fish profile and used by early Christians as a secret symbol relating to Jesus and his disciples as “fishers of men”. Lithuanian herring dishes such as herring with carrots or herring with mushrooms are served.
One of the main dishes eaten on Christmas Eve are mushrooms dried or pickled. In Poland and the Ukraine sauerkraut with wild mushrooms or fish soup is eaten. Also boiled or deep fried pierogis which are dumplings filled with either sauerkraut, mushrooms, smashed poppy seeds and other ingredients. For dessert doughnuts filled with jam in Poland and the Ukraine but in Lithuania sweet dishes are not
This is a holiday cake called the Yule Log also known as the Christmas Log or Buche de Noel. This cake that is made at Christmastime dates back to the 19th century. At this time rolled sponge cakes filled with jam or cream and covered with butter cream icing began to be mentioned in European cookbooks. They were usually decorated with marzipan or meringue. The rolled shape of the cake was to remind one of a log and was typically covered with chocolate butter cream to look like the “bark of a tree”. An interesting story is that in Paris Napoleon I of France issued a proclamation requiring households to keep their chimneys closed during the winter so that cold air would not get in and cause medical problems. It prevented Parisians …show more content…
Only at the turn of the century did the candy canes gain their red stripes and peppermint flavor. The body of the cane is white which represents the life that is pure and the red stripes are symbolic of the Lord’s sacrifice for man. In the 1920s Bob McCormack started making candy canes for his children, friends and local shopkeepers in Albany, Georgia. This was a long and tedious process so very few pieces of candy were made. Then in the 1950s Bob’s brother-in-law Gregory Keller, a Catholic priest invented a machine to make the canes. Bobs Candies Inc. became the largest producer of candy canes in the world.
Candy Cane facts:
• for 200 years it came in only one color – white.
• US Dec. 26 is National Candy Cane Day.
• world’s largest candy cane was created by Paul Ghinelli – 58 ft. 2 ¼ in.
• every year 1.76 billion candy canes are made
Christmas …show more content…
Poppy seeds are widely used for Christmas Eve dishes because they symbolize abundance and prosperity.
Fish dishes usually include herring, carp or pike. The fish symbolizes the ichthus a fish-like symbol which consists of two intersecting arcs resembling a fish profile and used by early Christians as a secret symbol relating to Jesus and his disciples as “fishers of men”. Lithuanian herring dishes such as herring with carrots or herring with mushrooms are served.
One of the main dishes eaten on Christmas Eve are mushrooms dried or pickled. In Poland and the Ukraine sauerkraut with wild mushrooms or fish soup is eaten. Also boiled or deep fried pierogis which are dumplings filled with either sauerkraut, mushrooms, smashed poppy seeds and other ingredients. For dessert doughnuts filled with jam in Poland and the Ukraine but in Lithuania sweet dishes are not