A Danish Christmas

Glaedelig Jul og godt nyter
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year



A Traditional Danish Christmas

The day is drawing nearer. It is December 23rd! On this day the tree is decorated with glass ball ornaments,
homemade woven hearts filled with nuts, candies or raisins, and little Santa's helpers called Nisser.
Today, you will find white candle-shaped lights, but they still sell the clips and candleholders
to place on your tree if you prefer the real thing.

On this night you eat Risengrod for dinner. It is rice boiled with milk and cinnamon.
And, most importantly you make sure you leave some out for the Jule Nisser.

On Christmas Eve, family and friends come over in the festivities. There are rich butter cookies and Glogg -
a hot wine boiled with nuts, spices and raisins.

The traditional Christmas dinner consists of roast pork or duck with crackling, red cabbage,
small boiled potatoes fried in butter and sugar. Then for dessert, the rice pudding mixture from last
evening is mixed together with chopped almonds. However, one whole almond placed in the pudding.
The person who gets the whole nut in his/her serving has good luck for the year!

You can find more recipes for this traditional Danish dinner at my recipe web page. Just click on this link!

Sources: Denmark, Online [available] http://zuzu.org/den.html

Danish Woven Hearts


My mother taught me how to make these when I was a little girl. I used regular construction paper,
but as you can see in the link below,you can use bright shiny paper too.

You will find these hearts made out of many different materials. My mother and aunt have crocheted hearts
to hang on the tree, and I have bought gold filigree hearts when visiting Denmark last year.





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