Happy Holidays from MyRealRacing

 
For every holiday, my sister gathers interesting trivia about said holiday and emails it out to everyone in the company where she works.  With her permission, I am republishing it here at MRR for your entertainment.  The credit for all this hard work (and the blame if there are any mistakes) goes to her.

CHRISTMAS FEASTING – British style

In the British armed forces, it is traditional that officers wait on the men and serve them their Christmas dinner.  This dates back to a custom from the Middle Ages.

It is also a British Christmas tradition that a wish made while mixing the Christmas pudding will come true only if the ingredients are stirred in a clockwise direction.

One notable medieval English Christmas celebration featured a giant 165-pound pie.  The giant pie was nine feet in diameter.  Its ingredients included 2 bushels of flour, 20 pounds of butter, 4 geese, 2 rabbits, 4 wild ducks, 2 woodcocks, 6 snipes, 4 partridges, 2 neats' tongues, 2 curlews, 6 pigeons, and 7 blackbirds.

The Christmas turkey first appeared on English tables in the 16th century, but didn't immediately replace the traditional fare of goose, beef or boar's head in the wealthier households.

The traditional flaming Christmas pudding dates back to 1670 in England, and was derived from an earlier form of stiffened plum porridge.