Christmas dinner
Christmas dinner
Our Christmas dinner consists of soup made of cabbage or mushroom and carp with a potato salad. Christmas dinner has many variations. Some families set one extra plate on the table for all the
loved ones who are not among us anymore. Some put coins under the plates on
the table, to have prosperity next year. Other families cut and share an
apple, so they can meet in like this again. Some families pray, some
don't. Also, you are not supposed to eat the whole day, so you can enjoy the Christmas dinner and see a golden pig.
Oblátky with honey
In Slovakia after the rising of the first star, the family sits down at the Christmas table, and at the beginning, the family munch ''oblátky'' with honey. The ''oblátky'' symbolize the host, the sacred bread and the body of Christ.
They can be decorated with church symbols. They are round and oval.
Soup
The most common one is ''kapustnica''
Kapustnica
It is prepared from fermented cabbage meat and dried mushrooms. There are significant differences in regional cabbage recipes. In each region, valley and village, Christmas cabbage is cooked a little differently.
Main Food
Desserts and fruits
We love chocolate balls, homemade meringues and our favourite sweet pastry named ''vianočka''. It's very popular to half-cut an apple, which will reveal one of the two symbols: a star or a crucifix. If it reveals a star, it'll mean luck and health for the family. If we find a crucifix, it will mean illness or death for the family. And there's much more what people do with fruits.
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