Favorite holiday treats

[alyxen]

Kosha cookies. Ukrainian cookies that my grandfather used to make. basically a roll of dough slathered with jelly, raisins,walnuts or whatever nuts (i omit them), cin. nut meg and sugar...all rolled up and baked, then cut into cookies.
love them.. only have them around xmas and i think that is because those ingrediants were rare or hard to find or expensive in the Ukraine.

I don't remember ever having any Uke cookies growing up. But I DO miss the homemade perogies smothered in butter.

Almost worth flying home just for Xmas dinner.

 

[Belegon]

In Mexico they Cervecería Moctezuma (Brewery Montzuma) brews a special edition beer called Noche Buena (Night Good) only at Christmas time. It has been a holiday tradition in Mexico for decades.

Individuals began to sneak Noche Buena beer across the border in the 50s and it was sold in some Mexican markets in Southern California at least. It is now widely available along the border, but only at Christmas.

Noche Buena is a lager type beer with a full body and a dark hue. Try it!

sounds like something to hunt for...I am less than 5 miles from the border...

 

[English Lady]

Oooh I love so much christmas food

Christmas pudding (My Nanna and Grandad made the best ones, left them for years to mature-crackin'!)

Christmas Cake (home made this year )

Mince pies (Has to be homemade!)

chocolate coins (those Euros are pretty tasty ya know Earl!)

those little chocolate truffles you get in bakeries around now dipped in the dark sugar strands with a bit of holly on top to make it look like a christmas pud *drools*



And I am sure there is more.

 

[alyxen]

Two questions for earlier posters:

1) What exactly is a Christmas cake?

2) What is a Christmas pud?

 

[wishfulthinking]

1. Rum balls.

2. christmas turkey & vegies roasted on the BBQ [too hot to do it inside]

3. Hate fruit cake, but LOVE LOVE LOVE brandy pudding with brandy sauce and brandy double-whipped cream. Mmmm...

 

[Guest]

I don't remember ever having any Uke cookies growing up. But I DO miss the homemade perogies smothered in butter.

Almost worth flying home just for Xmas dinner.

alyxen
my grandpa...he was an indentured servant and had an accent so thick, you could cut it with a knife. he was about 5' tall when he wore boots... he wove tales on a constant basis and it was hard to know what was truth but i always believed what he said. it could be that he just made up the cookie business.
im a sucker what can i say? he told me that there was no written recipe for the cookies, that it was something you had to remember...
"this comes from home...from my mothers mothers mother and before. you remember this."
so...i did
still the cookies are wonderful and i make them every year now. and know what? i tell my girls just what my grandpa told me...they come from a squillion years ago and you have to remember how they are made because there is no written recipe.

i hope they are suckers just like me.

 

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[alyxen]

alyxen
my grandpa...he was an indentured servant and had an accent so thick, you could cut it with a knife. he was about 5' tall when he wore boots... he wove tales on a constant basis and it was hard to know what was truth but i always believed what he said. it could be that he just made up the cookie business.
im a sucker what can i say? he told me that there was no written recipe for the cookies, that it was something you had to remember...
"this comes from home...from my mothers mothers mother and before. you remember this."
so...i did
still the cookies are wonderful and i make them every year now. and know what? i tell my girls just what my grandpa told me...they come from a squillion years ago and you have to remember how they are made because there is no written recipe.

i hope they are suckers just like me.

Well, I only had real Ukranian food at the grandmothers, so I'm sure they exist. Just missed them myself, which is disappointing as cookies are one of my favorite food groups.