The rules for celebrating Christmas have been unchanged for more than one hundred years, not everyone adheres to them, since most people are familiar only with the most popular traditions. Try to cook a juicy and flavorful turkey, make gifts with your own hands, invite the whole family to the table and celebrate Christmas with joy and kindness.
It is necessary
- - some hay;
- - oozy;
- - festive dishes;
- - presents.
Instructions
Step 1
Hay should be placed in the center of the festive table, this will symbolize the Bethlehem manger, where Jesus was born. Put on your finest cutlery and a crisp white tablecloth. There should be an even number of people sitting at the table, if not, put an extra set of dishes. Cook 13 dishes, except for soup, all can be cold so that the hostess of the house does not run into the kitchen.
Step 2
On Christmas Eve - Christmas Eve - prepare ritual porridge-sochivo. It is made from red wheat, barley, buckwheat or rye mixed with honey and almond or poppy juice. On this day, you cannot eat until the first star. When you see a bright star in the dark sky, sit down at the table and share the cachets.
Step 3
The wafers are thin sheets of unleavened dough, usually round in shape. Initially, they must be placed in the center of the table on clean hay, this symbolizes the baby Christ lying in a manger. During dinner, break a wafer with people sitting at the table, exchange good wishes and congratulations.
Step 4
Orthodox Christians cook kutya for the first course - a variant of sochiv. Cook it with wheat, rice, barley. Season with honey and vegetable oil. The richer and fatter the kutia, the better the prosperity and harvest in the family will be.
Step 5
Then you need to serve snacks (herring, salads), followed by red borscht, fish or mushroom soup. For soups, prepare pies with mushrooms or juicy. Serve sweet food at the end of your Christmas meal. Rolls with poppy seeds, honey cakes, jelly, nuts, various pastries are suitable.
Step 6
Everyone should taste at least a little of all the dishes. This meal takes place without alcoholic libations and without meat, milk and sour cream. If someone comes to you, you need to invite the guest to the table. It's customary to feed everyone on Christmas Eve, so bring out a treat for stray animals.
Step 7
For Christmas itself, prepare a big dinner for the whole family. Fat well-fed poultry is well suited: goose, duck, turkey. Put ham, jellied meat, meat rolls on the table. Make a hearty porridge with baked milk. Put alcohol on this table too.
Step 8
On Christmas Eve, give out gifts by dressing up as Saint Nicholas (Father Frost). When handing toys to children, reward positive qualities and scold for pranks. Traditionally, on this holiday, you need to make gifts with your own hands. Wrap presents in bright paper, decorate with spruce branches and cones.
Step 9
Christmas begins with the feast of Christmas, which lasts until Epiphany. At this time in Russia it was customary to dress up, arrange funny games on the street, congratulate all people on the turn of the sun for summer, sing, and dance in circles. Christmas carols are general festivities and fun, skiing from snow slides and plentiful feasts.
