Kitchen
How and what to celebrate New Year
(C)?
In different countries celebrate the New Year in different
ways, according to national circumstances.
Long before New Year's mistress begin to think about how
original dishes to surprise your household and guests. However,
plenty of New Year's feast is a relic of paganism, when a lot
of dishes prepared to appease the many spirits. According to
ancient beliefs, it was thought that the more food on New
Year's table, so happy to be next year.
What kind of traditional dish on the table in the New Year's
Eve? Each people have developed their holiday drinking habits.
Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian New Year's Eve sweet porridge
and stewed fruit. Also on the table at the Russian and
Ukrainian pig adorned with horseradish, fried chicken, homemade
sausage, Goose with apples.
At the beginning of the century in Russia was circulated
this custom. Under New Year's farmers baked dough figurines
depicting cows, bulls and other animals. And when a girl comes
home and young men who went at Christmas with the singing
greeting pesenkolyadok, the owners of their gifts to these
figures, as well as nuts and sweets. In the north of
Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions and today sometimes bake for
New Year's table figure cookies the secret of making which goes
on from generation to generation, from grandmothers to
granddaughters.
In Moldova, the need to bake the New Year with a pie pies
cheese, pumpkin or apples. A number of dishes on the table must
should correspond to the numbers 7, 9, 12. On the first day of
the year will certainly throw the Moldovans at home and in
those houses where they are going to visit, the grain that year
was abundant and fruitful.
In Latvia, greeting the New Year, you need to eat at least
one pea. Then the coming year will certainly bring luck and
prosperity.
In Armenia, on the festive table among other delicious
dishes is always a dolma. This dish is similar to our cabbage
rolls, beef only Armenian women wrapped in cabbage is not, as
in grape leaves.
In Georgia, the first day of the year is not made to walk in
guests without an invitation. The owner himself is calling
those with whom he associated the concept of good. Such an
invited guest should be the first in the new year to cross the
threshold of the house where he had been summoned, and be sure
to bring a sweetness.
In Japan on New Year cooked food only from products that
bring happiness. It is believed that seaweed gives joy, roasted
chestnuts - success in business, peas and beans - health,
boiled fish - peace and good spirits, herring roe - a happy
family, many children. Help themselves, sedately sitting around
low table, with no noisy conversations and drinking songs.
Nothing detract from the thoughts and arguments about the
coming year and own future.
In France, the hostess must submit to the Christmas and New
Year dinner champagne, oysters and roast chicken or turkey.
Owners of small cafes organize a lottery in which before
midnight you can win a battered bird, pig or lamb.
But in Austria, Yugoslavia and Hungary, you will never be
served New Year's dish of poultry. Otherwise, according to
popular belief, the house fly happiness.
The vine is considered among the inhabitants of southern
European symbol abundance and a happy family home. Therefore,
the Portuguese, Spaniards, and after them, and Latinos need to
catch a Chimes eat twelve grapes. At the same time be under
twelve strokes think of twelve desires.
In Italy, except grapes symbol of health, welfare and
longevity are also nuts and lentils.
Christmas cakes are baked in Romania, Australia and
Bulgaria. Pies, these are not simple, but with surprises. Who
gets roasted in the test coin, nut, pepper pod, he probably
will get next year, his family or get lucky.
According to custom, in Poland the Christmas Eve dinner is
prepared twelve meatless dishes and no meat. Cook them in
vegetable oil, no other fats do not apply. That evening,
necessarily serves the fish (especially carp prized as a symbol
of family happiness and prosperity), mushroom soup or borsch
with ears, barley porridge with prunes, gnocchi with butter and
for dessert - chocolate cake. Drinks are prepared from a
variety of dried fruits and berries.
In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, New Year's menu is
almost the same, only the cereal - barley. Yes even necessarily
serve strudel - layer cake with apples, the pride of every good
housewife. By tradition New Year's table is decorated and
delicious dish with carp.
British housewife on Christmas Day and New Year's suit
pryamotaki contests culinary skill. But whatever the tricks
Englishwoman in the fabrication of various dishes on the
festive table must be cheesecake and cake. And after delivering
a Christmas toast traditionally consumed a huge mug of beer, to
which the snacks are sweet marzipan fruits.
The inhabitants of Scandinavia at the Christmas table should
also be a lot of beer. Here to it serves a variety of fish
meals and certainly cancers. That crabs, according to ancient
tradition, distilled from home all the troubles.
New Year's Eve in Holland is unthinkable without the donuts
with raisins that is baked just once a year - on December 31.
In the Eastern peoples, too, there are many interesting
customs that accompany New Year.
In Cambodia, a festive table must put in the window. Hostess
serving the most loved family and sweets, which should first
have guests and Santa heat, the brother of Santa Claus.
The people of Tibet have a very nice custom. Mistress in the
New Year's Eve bake pies mountains with a variety of fillings
and endows them all the familiar and unfamiliar. The more
treats to give, the richer you will be.
It is interesting to celebrate the New Year and in other
Asian countries. It is believed that more will be so sweet and
less alcohol, so joyful and happy will be the coming year. On
the streets of towns and villages in these countries for a few
minutes before midnight young people kindle fires, and then
jump through them. According to popular legend, the fire shall
burn all failures of the past year.
Merry festive traditional not only in the East.
In Hungarian villages with the boys gather at dusk
groups and act out humorous skits in front of the houses where
they live girls. Girls, in turn, these same ideas to organize
homes guys.
In Romania, even on the streets of big cities is often
possible to meet the New Year Kolyada. Guys in their national
costumes and high lamb hats singing couplets, carols, wishing
people health, happiness and prosperity. Hosts tolerate food,
candy bestows carols, a pack of cigarettes, souvenirs. Such
custom - Kalyada a must thank you.
No other holidays are not surrounded by such a magical aura,
as Christmas and New Year. We associate them with faith and
hope. This is the brightest holidays, which we love since
childhood.
In the world there are so many traditions of celebration
The new year. In fact, when you can both relax and
have fun, if not New Year's Eve wonders? We in Russia
New Year's - a family holiday, and every family can have their
tradition of celebrating the New Year. It is important that the
New Year gave faith a happy future!
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