"Holiday recipes deserve a dedicated section because of their variety and richness."
This section of our website is dedicated to foods that are traditionally served during the holiday season; unlike our list of "National Food Holidays" which are actually daily, weekly & monthly observances that's held in honor of a certain food. Such as: hot dogs, hamburgers, salsa, salads -
When do we eat all these traditional holiday dishes?
During the Holiday Season of course! But when is the holiday season you ask? Well the holiday season, or simply the holidays "is an annual 4 month festive period that surrounds the Christmas holiday as well as other varying holidays. It is sometimes synonymous with the winter season, and is usually said to occur between October and January. The exact definition, name, and celebratory method of the period varies from culture to culture." (See Winter Holidays) Now having said that, we also list many other traditional recipes for celebrations all throughout the the year!
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Valentines Day:
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An annual celebration held primarily in Great Britain. Originally known as Gunpowder Treason Day. Guy Fawkes Night is usually celebrated with large organised events, centred around a bonfire and extravagant firework displays. The traditional food is always a Parkin Cake.
Burns Night • Week of January 25
Haggis is traditionally served with the Burns supper on the week of January 25, when Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, is commemorated. (poem Address to a Haggis in 1787. Haggis is traditionally served with "neeps and tatties" (Scots: swede, yellow turnip or rutabaga and potatoes, boiled and mashed separately) and a "dram" (i.e. a glass of Scotch whisky), especially as the main course of a Burns supper. • Mashed Potatoes
Lane Cake • Special occasions like birthdays and weddings
A Lane Cake is a baked cake traditional in the American South. It is difficult to make and reserved for special occasions like birthdays and weddings. It consists of four layers of white sponge cake separated by a filling of egg yolks, butter, raisins with a generous amount of bourbon or brandy. Modern versions may contain pecans, coconut & other ingredients in the filling. It is frosted with a white icing made from whipped egg whites and sugar.
Saffron Bun • Traditionally eaten during Advent, and especially on Saint Lucy's Day
A saffron bun, in Swedish lussebulle or lussekatt (a lussekatt has four rolls), is a rich yeast dough bun that is flavoured with saffron and cinnamon or nutmeg and contains currants. In Sweden, no cinnamon or nutmeg is used in the bun, and raisins are used instead of currants. The buns are baked into many traditional shapes, of which the simplest is a reversed S-shape. They are traditionally eaten during Advent, and especially on Saint Lucy's Day, December 13.
This day is for making, sharing and enjoying pancakes. Shrove Tuesday, (also known as Pancake Day & International Pancake day), because it is customary to eat pancakes. Yes pancakes! On Pancake Day, customary pancake races are held in villages and towns across the United Kingdom. -- The reason that pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent is that the 40 days of Lent form a period of liturgical fasting, during which only the plainest foodstuffs may be eaten. Therefore, rich ingredients such as eggs, milk, and sugar are disposed of immediately prior to the commencement of the fast. Pancakes and doughnuts were therefore an efficient way of using up these perishable goods, besides providing a minor celebratory feast prior to the fast itself.
Coctails: • Glogg (Denmark)
• Mulled Wine, variations of which are popular around the world, is wine, usually red, combined with spices and typically served warm. Nowadays, it is a traditional drink during winter, especially around Christmas and Halloween. • Hot Buttered Rum is a mixed drink containing rum, butter, hot water or cider, and various spices (usually nutmeg and cloves). It is traditionally associated with the holiday season and has a venerable history; in the United States, it dates back to colonial days.
Candy/dessert
• White Christmas Candy White Christmas is an Australian sweet, made from a combination of Copha or white chocolate, icing sugar, sultanas, glacé cherries, desiccated coconut, milk powder and rice bubbles. It is cooked in a rectangular slice tin, and cut into slices for eating. It is very well known in Australia, being a sweet that children can easily be taught to make.
• Pavlova Recipe (Australia & New Zealand) The dessert is a popular dish and an important part of the national cuisine of both countries, and is frequently served during celebratory or holiday meals such as Christmas lunch.
• Pecan Pie Recipe -Pecan pie is a sweet pie made primarily of corn syrup and pecan nuts. It is popularly served at holiday meals and is also considered a specialty of Southern U.S. cuisine.
• Mincemeat Pie Recipe - A mince pie (sometimes also minced, minced meat, or mincemeat pie) is a British festive sweet pastry, traditionally consumed during the Christmas and New Year period and also for Thanksgiving in America. • Christmas Cake
Sauce, Gravy, Dips & Butter
• Brandy Butter: A sweet, rich sauce, usually consumed with traditional desserts during the Christmas and New Year period in the UK. Also known at Cambridge as Senior Wrangler sauce
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How-To Topics
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• Lucky New Years Food
• collard, turnip, or mustard greens
• Pork: Ham hock, Hog jowl, Bacon
