Monday, January 1, 2024

The Christmas banquet of the past

 First my mother know all the meats of Christmas and Year eve. Probably if you wanted to know the same you have to do an Banquet course of culinary isn't basic cooking. And at the time that we went to my grandmother house how was the banquet. My grandmother my mother said when younger used to make even the cake, but if the age she just doesn't make that. My grandmother used to use cinnamon, and my mother cinnamon and vanilla extract. Is that cinnamon is very typic, of the Brazil colonial, the seasoning of the Indias. Corn canjuica with cinnamon. Brazil always buy a lot of seazoning of Indias from another countries like Portugal and England. In the School who sale seazoning of India the profit was like 6000 times the travel even losing some ship. Was the Indias company I think that is Portugal and England. So sweetness with cinamon... So my grandmother used to by for Christmas to make the beauty of the dishes. And dried fruits like: rasin, plums, apricot, dates(tâmaras not her favorites), and in cans peach, pineaple, fig; I think is pretty corret in Europe rpobably the food are in canning in the Christmas because there would be winter, and also in alcohol cherries. Snowing the only fresh fruits would berries that can hold the cold season. And my mother used to buy cristal fruit like pineaple, that at the time was imported. Also my grandmother and mother used to buy canned peas, is also good nuts, my mother like to use refrigerated bacon, the older is the smoke one, my grandmother used to do eggs lines that are made with the yellow of the eggs that appear with noddloes but the taste is sweet and delicious, you don't know nothing if you never eat, quindim fios de ovos, o put in almost everything, I prefer the one that is in the top of the cake. And an canapé that my grandmother used to do in the parties, is sausage in can but in water and salt and not that one that is in vinegar that one had a horrible taste, and fresh cheese and bread, cut all in small pieces and in a toothpick, and also they liked to buy olivas the ones that are in vinegar that in the right food make that supreme, so the pineaple in can had a hole in the middle, and my grandmother used to put an smaller fruit, and the figs in the bottom, so is in the middle plum and in other cherry, guiving a sweet taste in all the meats, and also some fios de ovos to make dish even prettier, also in the table can have quail eggs, the rice is very simple make mont with dried raisn in the top and the peas around in the bottom. And the food or in steel strays or in pyrex plates, they really are old around this lands, my grandmother used to like or walnut cakes or fruit cake, the fruit cake that she used to serve in that parties was canned. When she make the walnut cake, once we were there in the beggining and the eggs of the chicken house was small to do the cake. had baba de moça, that is yellow of the eggs sugar and coconut milk, and the marshmallow that would be the lateral of the cake dressing it, and fios de ovos in the top with cherries. And also she used to buy for the parties a lot of bread of packet not only for the canapé but for small sandwiches, in the backery is the drawer bread, because the pan had a lid that closes like an drawer to the bread be squared.

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