Christmas customs in Greece

1. Christmas Customs
in Greece
-We decorate our houses with angels,
bells,
Candles, lights, school, town.
-We decorate a Christmas tree.
-We send cards to friends.
-We write letters to Sanda Claus.
-We visit relatives.

2. This year, in Serres there is
“The State of Wishes”
You can find lots of Christmas sweets, hot
drinks and sandwiches, and an amusement
park with a Big wheel, Dodgem Cars, the
Ghost Train and an ice- skating rink.
You can also enjoy short theatrical plays or
songs by children in a Christmas
decoration.

3. The State of Wishes

4. The amusement Park

5. Some people fast for 40 days before Christmas. That
is, they don’t eat meat at all or other dairy products.-
Pomegranate symbolizes fertility and good luck. Some
people break one out of their door and enter the
house on their right foot on New Year’s Day

6. -On Epiphany day, young men dive in chilly
Waters for a cross, blessed by a priest and
thrown into the water.

7. -Children sing carols from house to
house
οn Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve and
Epiphany (6th January)

8. On Christmas Eve we eat Christopsomo
We make Christmas sweets:
kourabiedes, melomakarona, diples
Christopsomo

9. Melomakarona
Ingredients
2 cups sunflower oil or corn
oil
½ cup orange juice
½ cup brandy
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon clove-gillyflower
2ts.cinnamon
2 vanillas

10. 1 teaspoon o
soda
½ cup sugar
2 cups
semolina
4-4 12 cup of
flour
15gr. baking
powder
Syrop
3 cups sugar
1 ½ cup honey
2 cups water
cinnamon stick
1 orange cut in 2

11. Kourabiedes
Ingredients
• 400gr butter
• 80gr sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon soda
• ½ t.s. cinnamon
• 1 kilo flour
• 300gr almonds
• 1 cup of olive oil
• little cognac –
brandy
• 20gr baking
powder
• icing sugar
Procedure
• Beat for 10 minutes the sugar
with the oil and butter.Add the
egg yolks, cinnamon, brandy,
soda , baking powder and
flour.
• Roast the almonds for 5
minutes and cut them in small
pieces.
• Add them in the mixture
• Make small balls and bake for
20 min. at 175 degrees. Throw
icing sugar on them while hot.

12. Diples
• Ingredients for the syrop
• 5 eggs 500gr honey
• ½ teaspoon baking soda 1 cup water
• Salt ½ ts cinnamon
• 3,5 cups flour ½ ts clove
• Olive oil (for frying them)
• Chopped nuts(to sprinkle on them)

13. Christmas at our school

14. Warm wishes
for a happy and creative
from your Greek friends

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