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World Over

As much a part of Christmas
as Santa Claus are the holiday
dinner, the candies, cookies
and cakes, the pies and pud-
dings. Almost every country
in the world has contributed
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Turkey and all the trim-
mings have become traditional
in America, and other coun-
tries have their own menus for
the Christmas feast,

Belgium and Holland have
special cakes and sweets for
St, Nicholas season. The Let-
terbanket is baked in the form
of letters so that one may or-
der his name in cake. Marzi-
pan candies, once made only
in the shape of hearts, now
come in msny forms,

An Italian Christmas feast
might include Capitelli —
white meat of chicken and
pork chopped and mixed with
eggs and spices, encased in an
inch-high dunce cap of noodle
dough — or Capitoni, made
from fried eels,

What Austrians Eat

Characteristic foods of
Austrians at Christmas, say
Americana Encyclopedia re-

‘from the Missa do Galo, the

Midnight Mass, the grownups
gather at the table for a huge
Christmas breakfast of hot
chocolate, sweets and egg
cakes,

The Finns serve a Christmas
dessert made of rice, accord-
ing to the editors of The Book
of Knowledge. The rice is
boiled in milk and served with
cream topped with sugar and
cinnamon. An almond is put
into the large dish of rice and
the diner who is lucky enough
to get this almond will, legend
Says, be especially favored in
the coming year,

Hawaiian Feasting

Lavish feasts accompany
Christmas in Hawaii. Menu for
a traditional dinner in a Poly-
nesian family might be: roast
pig, prepared in an imu, a cov-
ered rock oven; gray-brown
poi; raw salmon, with vinegar
and herbs; island spinach
cooked in coconut: milk; and
Pickled pineapple. Dessert
might be passion-fruit pie —
tangy-tart, yet sweet, topped
with macadamia-nut ice
cream.

In Sweden as family, guests
and household servants as-
semble, each person sticks a
piece of bread on a fork and
dips it into a kettle of pork
and sausage drippings. Ac-
cording to tradition, this bread
is eaten for luck before: the
feast begins.

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cake made of raisins, currants,
chopped figs and dates and
served hot; chopped and
baked carps; beef, vegetables
and beer.

On Christmas Day in Hun-
gary the family sits down for
@ roast goose dinner,

Instead of turkey, Norwe-
gians have Christmas por-
ridge, codfish, roast ribs of
pork, pickled pork, and some-
times a barbecued young pig,
with an apple in its mouth,
and paper frills upon its ears.

Mince pie is an old English
custom. It represents a com-
pound of the choicest products
of the East and symbolizes the
gifts of the Wise Men to the
Christ Child. Another national
Christmas dish in England is
the famous plum pudding.

After the Portuguese return

Novel Ornaments

Adorn Far Lands

It is customary among the
Czechs and Slovaks, say the
editors of The Encyclopedia
Americana, to break a branch
off a cherry tree at the begin-
ning of Advent, place it in a
pot of water in the kitchen and
keep it in the warm air. The
twig is then supposed to burst
into blossom at Christmas time
and make a festive decoration.

The Christmas festival in
China is Sheng Dan Jieh, the
Holy Birth Festival. Paper dec-
orations and evergreens adorn
churches and homes. The
Christmas tree is decorated
with paper flowers, colored
paper chains and cotton snow-

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