A famous christmas food in Italy is struffoli. Struffoli are made of fried dough balls dipped in honey. Also there is a cake called panettone. Panettone is made with fruit and pieces of chocolate.

INGREDIENTS OF PANETTONE:

flour, butter, sugar, cranberries or fruit and water

 SOME THINGS OF CHRISTMAS IN ITALY

This year Christmas in Italy starts on Thursday 8th December 2022 and finishes on Friday  6th January 2023. They also decorate their Christmas tree.

Evelyn, Vasiliki, Andromahi

CHRISTMAS FOOD IN AMERICA

Gingerbread cookies

150g butter, cubed.

1/2 cup (125ml) golden syrup.

1/2 cup (110g) firmly packed brown sugar.

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda.

3 cups (450g) plain flour.

1 tbsp ground ginger.

1 tsp ground cinnamon.

1/2 tsp nutmeg.

In America at Christmas holidays the schools stop on 19th December and start on 2nd January.

People decorate a tree

Every Christmas, people play Secret Santa. It is a game which people exchange presents randomly.

People eat turkey with sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce

For dessert, they have gingerbread and cookies with Christmas frosting.

Chryseida

The carolers stop in front of every house  and  shout  all together: «Good morning on Christmas Eve! Trick or treat!» One the most famous traditions of the period of Christmas season and the  New Year’s Day is the»Plugurosul-Plugurosul». People from northern Romania perform the Christmas and New Year’s ritual and dance the «bear dance» in Bucharest on December 25

ROMANIAN TRADITIONAL RECIPE

Cozonac

Ingredients

Dough:

1150gr flour

240gr sugar

100γρ fresh yeast and one  sachet of  dry

200gr milk

120gr yoghurt

85gr honey

Orange zest

4 eggs

1 pinch of salt

250gr cow butter

three drops of rum oil

1 shot of cognac

Stuffing

Blonde and black raisins

a teaspoon of fig sweet

chocolate

Coating

Egg white

Brown or white granulated sugar

Mix well and pour 100g of our flour, mix and let it activate for ten minutes, once it doubles, mix well and leave again
 for ten minutes, leave for ten minutes and make this puff.

Anastasia

Maria

All familles gather together around the table eating chicken, salad, soup, eggs,turkey and finally we eat Vasilopita on New Year’s Day.

Children finish school, usually on 23rd December.

Traditionallly, we used to  decorate a Ship with Christmas lights but now we decorate a tree.

Santa Claus brings presents to the children on 1st January. The children send mails to Santa Claus. The elves prepare the presents and put them in the sleigh.Then Santa is ready!

Nick and  Daphne