WE EUROPEANS

 CHRISTMAS TRADITION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC One of typical Czech Christmas traditions is baking sweet cokies. Our Mums always bake a lot of variants of sweets but our favourite Christmas sweets are Vanilla rolls.

 The most popular of the Christmas cookies are Vanilla rolls.  Ingredients:  70g of walnuts  140 g of butter  70 g of sugar  39 gram packets of vanilla sugar  220 g of smooth flour  1 york of egg  Method:  Cream and mix the butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and york. Add the milk grinded, flour and mix. Then leave the dough to rest (1-2 hours). Next shape the dough into a crescent shape and bake them ( 180°C ) until they are light golden brown.  Good taste for you !

Apple  The first habit is to cut the apples A star in the middle = good health during next year A cross in the middle = worse health and problems during next year Fish-scales  The second habit is to put fish scale under the plate. The scale brings happiness and wealth next year

- Preparation for Christmas includes a lot of activities in housework – cleaning of the house, baking biscuits, buying presents and decorating the Christmas trees. - One of main parts on Christmas Eve is special Czech Christmas dinner for the whole family (parents, children, eventually grandparents) before meeting around the Christmas tree.

The national Czech Christmas dinner is fried fish or schnitzel, potatoe salad, and fish soup.  Next symbol for Christmas is Christmas tree. This is typical Czech X-mas tree.

 After dinner Baby Jesus comes and brings presents under the Christmas tree. Czech children don´t have Santa Claus, we have Baby Jesus.

 We usually spend this day at home, children play with new toys, families watch fairy tales, eat cookies and enjoy this time.

 We visit grandparents and our friends, give them presents and spend time with them.

 Warm regards to all our partners.