This blog contains materials about the way people celebrate Xmas in Europe.
LEBKUCHEN
Ingredients
3 1/3 cup (300 g) rye flour
1 cup (200 g) raw cane sugar
2 eggs, whole
2 tbsp honey
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp (15 g) gingerbread spices(you can get it in the shop) or a mixture of ground cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cardamom, and cloves grated lemon peel from ½ lemon.
Preparation
Mix flour, sugar, sodium, gingerbread spices, and lemon [...]
Here’s is a photo of one of our cribs!
ITIS “A.Volta”
Hello from Perugia!
The students at ITIS “A. Volta” Perugia, Italy would like to wish you a wonderful New Year and tell you a few words about our Christmas Tree which is the biggest in the world. It is located in Gubbio, a small town near Perugia. Every evening of 7 December, the Christmas Tree lights [...]
Class 5 B children of ” A. Ciancia” Primary school interviewed their mums and their grandmas about typical Christmas pancakes and here are other two recipes for you:
The “Cannaricoli”
Ingredients
1 kg of flour
10 eggs
1 bag of baking powder
1 lemon
1 glass of oil
5 pinches of salt
1 glass of milk
Method
Put the flour on the pastry board, add the [...]
When Christmas time starts, at the beginning of December, we use to prepare a big Crib and a big Christmas tree in the corridor of our school as a Christmas symbol for everyone. This year we made a big one for all the school, but each class prepared their own crib in their own classrooms [...]
The class 4 B and 5A wish Merry Christmas to you all!
From “A.Ciancia” primary school-Francavilla in Sinni (PZ) Italy
Dear all,
We wish you a very happy festive season and …
A Happy New Year, 2008!
Here we are in these photos (6th, 7th and 9th graders) working on this project and enjoying every second of it.
Great being your partners in this project!
Stefania’s drawing
Legănelul lui Iisus (old Romanian carol) 1. Colo-n sus pe-un deal frumos / Unde-i cerul luminos / Într-un leagăn stă culcat / Fiul Maicii înfăşat. Refren (bis): Leagăn verde, legănel / Tot din lemn de păltinel … 2. Raza blând-a soarelui / Scaldă faţa Domnului / Vântul dulce tragănă / Pruncul de mi-l [...]
During Christmas time we prepare and eat these salt pancakes that you can use instead of bread during the meals or as snack:
INGREDIENTS:
500 g. of flour
20 g of olive oil
half a glass of milk
20 g. of brewer’s yest
water ( how you need)
a pinch of salt
METHOD:
Mix everything and let the dough rise well covered for [...]
… and one last essay about Romanian Christmas and carols from Vasilica, 9th grade (“Nicu Gane” High School):
