CHRISTMAS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS• They love to decorate Christmas Trees and hang up evergreen branches.•One of England's customs is mumming.•The English gift giver is called Father Christmas. He wears a long red or green robe, and leaves presents in stockings on Christmas Eve.

•Father Christmas delivers them during the night before Christmas. The Children leave an empty stocking or pillowcase hanging at the end of the bed.•In England the day after Christmas is called Boxing Day because boys used to go round collecting money in clay boxes.

•In England Christmas dinner was usually eaten at Midday on December 25, during daylight.

The traditional Christmas dinner

A traditional English and British Christmas dinner includes roast turkey or goose, brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, cranberry sauce, rich nutty stuffing, tiny sausages wrapped in bacon and lashings of hot gravy.

Turkey, sausages wrapped in bacon and roast potatoes!

CHRISTMAS PUDDING

Christmas pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served on Christmas Day (December 25) as part of the Christmas dinner. It has its origins in medieval England, and is sometimes known as plum pudding or Christmas Pudding or just "pud", though this can also refer to other kinds of boiled pudding involving dried fruit. Despite the name "plum pudding," the pudding contains no actual plums due to the pre-Victorian use of the word "plums" as a term for raisins.

SOURCES

• www.santas.net• www.thehistoryofchristmas.com

POWERED BY JOHN KIOULOS AND CHRISTOS SIAVIKIS