Masarykova ZŠ a MŠ Brodce, CZ

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CHRISTMAS TRADITION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

One of typical Czech Christmas traditions is baking sweet cokies.Our Mums always bake a lot of variants of sweets but our favourite Christmas sweets are Vanilla rolls.

The most popular of the Christmas cookies are Vanilla rolls. Ingredients: 70g of walnuts 140 g of butter 70 g of sugar 39 gram packets of vanilla sugar 220 g of smooth flour 1 york of egg

Method: Cream and mix the butter , sugar , vanilla sugar and york . Add the milk

grinded, flour and mix. Then leave the dough to rest (1-2 hours). Next shape the dough into a crescent shape and bake them ( 180°C ) until they are light golden brown .

Good taste for you !

Vanilla rolls /recipe

Apple The first habit is to cut the apples

A star in the middle = good health during next year A cross in the middle = worse health and problems during next year

Fish-scales The second habit is to put fish scale under the plate. The scale brings happiness and wealth next year

Christmas habits and traditions

- Preparation for Christmas includes a lot of activities in housework – cleaning of the house , baking biscuits , buying presents and decorating the Christmas trees .

Preparations for Christmas Eve24th December

- One of main parts on Christmas Eve is special Czech Christmas dinner for the whole family (parents , children , eventually grandparents) before meeting around the Christmas tree .

The national Czech Christmas dinner is fried fish or schnitzel, potatoe

salad, and fish soup.

Next symbol for Christmas is Christmas tree.

This is typical Czech X-mas tree.

Christmas Symbols

After dinner Baby Jesus comes and brings presents under the

Christmas tree .Czech children don´t have Santa

Claus, we have Baby Jesus.

Christmas Symbols

We usually spend this day at home, children play with new toys, families watch fairy tales, eat cookies and enjoy this time.

25th December – this day is called „Boží hod“ in Czech

We visit grandparents and our friends,give them presents and spend time with

them.

26th December

Warm regards to all our partners.

Comenius Club Brodce, CZ

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