In my part of the country..East Anglia.. Cold boiled,breaded sliced ham is served with pork pie and pickles..fruit juice/coffee for Christmas mornings breakfast.A cold buffet in the evening…family games all afternoon and evening,with an additional small present-from the tree for all ….

No, we don’t have anything like that in the United States.

XMAS PUD MUM RECIPE SPICY RUM SAUCE

OR TRIFLE

CHEESEBOARD

FOOD OVER FOR AN HOUR
CARD GAMES

Do you have a recipe for the traditional Christmas pudding? My grandmother never wrote down her recipes. Born in 1901-1996

I make Christmas pudding every year, and always source dried currants for it along with other things, but I have not yet made it weeks before hand, steamed it in a cloth and hung it up, and I would like to do that. My Australian neighbor does it, and showed me how to last year. Mine is still steamed, very rich, served with brandy sauce or what my Canadian (of Scottish descent) relatives called “hard sauce.” They always made it in Canada, and my father grew up with that tradition. Because I don’t age my Christmas pudding, it is soft like sticky toffee pudding, and I like it that way. But this year I did make a fruit cake that is aging and waiting for Christmastime, and I will steam a Christmas pudding also. I will make an aged Christmas pudding next year!

We have also had trifle sometimes for Christmas Eve. I don’t know if this is more of a Scottish thing than British – you would have to tell me. But that is where we get our custard, and we usually make up Birds. Mince pies are for Hogmanay (New Years). I prefer making mine from scratch because they are so much better than store-bought.

‘Neeps ‘n tatties” always accompanies our Christmas dinner (potatoes and turnips or Swede(rutabaga) mashed together). We usually also serve Brussels sprouts with dinner. We tried asparagus, but one of our grown children hates it.

What would a British holiday be without excellent craftsman cheeses? Wensleydale, sharp cheddar, smoked cheeses, and stilton? We put out a cheese board with good crackers, sliced pear, nuts, and other things for nibbling on Christmas Eve. Usually somewhere during the holiday, either along with the cheeseboard or for what my husband calls “a cookie breakfast,” we will have kippers or smoked herring, or even cockles.

Another food that accompanies our holiday, is a LOT of gingerbread… oh and quality homemade shortbread, too, that I press into a mold for nice designs. And SOMETHING made with puff pastry! Puff pastry is also less common here in the U.S. I wonder what I can make with it this year? Any suggestions?

We also order British chocolates and “sweeties” for Christmastime… Cadburys, particularly types of Cadburys we can’t get off the shelf here like Cadburys drinking chocolate. This year I ordered large boxes of Whispa and Bounty which the kids love. Allsorts is another one… Flake… and my husband always orders a large tin of Quality Street for me, which I try to share… sort of.

Thank you everyone for giving me ideas!

Rude. Maybe her husband’s depiction is how he or his family celebrated? You are a sniveling troll, who perhaps needs to get a hobby and stop trying to make others feel inferior.