Christmas dinner: Why do you eat turkey on Christmas Eve?

In the west, any family dinner enjoyed at Christmas is called Christmas dinner. In fact, the so-called "big meal" is just a little richer than usual. However, several traditional foods are indispensable for Christmas, such as Christmas turkey, smoked ham, Christmas salmon and Christmas pudding.

Eating turkey at Christmas originated in America. It is said that on Christmas Day in 1620, a large number of immigrants from Britain arrived at Mount Primus in the United States. Because there is almost no food here, except turkeys everywhere, they have to roast turkeys for the festival. Turkey is big and fleshy, delicious, nutritious and low in cholesterol, so it is favored by westerners. Since then, eating turkey at Christmas has become a tradition.

The earliest popular is the traditional Christmas dinner, roast pig and ham, because in Catholic countries, pigs symbolize "wealth". Whether it is the early roast pig with ham or the later turkey with salmon, in short, it is mainly meat. Because "hunger" is a common occurrence in the period of depending on the weather, it is always a happy thing to enjoy a "big piece of meat" dinner at the end of the year.

In addition to meat, there is red wine at Christmas dinner. The reason for this tradition is that meat symbolizes the body of Jesus Christ and red wine represents his blood. We should remember Jesus' suffering for others and his crucifixion.

Christmas red wine has a special drinking method: add brown sugar, orange peel, meat orange, orange core, raisins and other ingredients to the wine, then stir while heating on the fire (be careful not to boil), and finally pour in a little vodka. Have a drink after taking the pot. It's really fragrant and warm. Think about it, in the cold Christmas, relatives and friends visit each other, guests come in, take off their hats and gloves and grab a drink. How warm it is!

Another part of the Christmas dinner is dessert. Such as cookies and cakes. This kind of food is usually prepared on Christmas Eve. Families sit together to cook, and children like to participate in things that they find interesting. Because Christmas cakes can be made according to their favorite shapes and tastes. When making Christmas cakes in Swedish-speaking countries, there is a custom similar to China's wrapping jiaozi, that is, deliberately putting a whole almond in the almond-flavored cake, and whoever eats the only whole almond will be the lucky god of the new year. Of course, luck will win the prize. Nordic people often give fortune a big biscuit with a red bow tie on it. In Holland and Germany, it's little black Peter, palm-sized. It can be seen that eating Christmas dinner in the west can not only satisfy your appetite, but also appreciate a very interesting food culture.