YULETIDE BRIEFS.
The turkey has formed a Christmas dish in England ever since its introduction in 1524. Another Italian Christmas dish is cauliflower cooked with " caviale," an immense lobster. he " Cerone," or big supper, takes place on Christmas Kv e in Italy after a lon.' day of fasting. Ihe Christmas pantomime was first introduced into the country in 1702 by a dancing-master of Shrewsbury. Holly if a corruption of the word holy. In Germany it is called Christdorn, and in Denmark and Sweden Cluisttorn. Christmas treat, besides the pudding, is the concert, which has now become 'an anruaaJ feature in all our large prisons. I'luin pudding was "originally a sort of thick porridge with plums in it, and was used in the sense of force-meat or stuffing. In' Worcestershire it is considered very unlucky for new shoes or tanned leather to be received into the house in Christmas week. The Servians have special loaves. Roast pig is the principal Yuletide dish, just as pigs' trotters is the Russian New \cat dish.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17348, 20 December 1919, Page 1 (Supplement)
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