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Christmas in Greece!!!.ppt
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- 2. Greek Christmas!!! •Greece is a deeply Orthodox country . So Christmas is the biggest religious Holiday and Celebration in our country! • People here start preparing for Christmas on November 15 ,when religious fast begins! • So , those who choose to fast, don’t eat meat and dairy products from the middle of November till Christmas Day! • At Christmas those who fast and young children receive the Holy Communion. We all go to church early in the morning. The bells ring at 5:30am!!
- 3. Here is aphoto of Lenten food served in monasteries during Lent: beans, olives, vegetable pies, pickles , dried fruit and of course bread!
- 4. As time passesand Christmas is approaching Greeks decorate their cities. Photos of Larissa ,our home city! It should be mentioned that we decorate Christmas trees and Christmas Boats since we are a nautical country !
- 5. Christmas boats aredecorated both outside and inside the house!!
- 6. There also arefestivals and events organized to celebrate Christmas ! Look at the photos of the old mill in Larissa where children enjoy Christmas time!
- 7. …Christmas funfair atthe old mill in Larissa!
- 8. Athens ,the capitalcity, during Christmas time the previous years!
- 9. Christmas concerts areorganized too!
- 10. We also decorateour houses and buy presents for our friends, family and especially for people who celebrate their name days during this Holy period!
- 11. But apart fromthe decoration, Christmas is also smell and taste! The smell and taste of traditional sweets being baked while we wait to celebrate Christmas.They are baklavas, kataifi, diples and melomakarona!
- 12. Melomakarona is themost famous sweet! Ingredients 1200 grams flour 1 teaspoon 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda Skin of one orange grated 500 grams olive oil 250 grams sugar 2/3 of water glass orange juice 1 wine glass of cognac Syrup 1 glass of water 1 glass of sugar 2 glasses of honey Instructions Add one by one all the ingredients in a bowl, mix well, make balls ,bake at 180o Celsius for 30’.Boil the syrup well and pour it over the baked melomakarona. Then pour melted dark chocolate and sprinkle with walnuts.
- 13. Another popular sweetis kourabiedes!! Ingredients • 250 grams of butter • ½ cup of caster sugar • ½ cup of almonds baked • 2 vanillas • 2 tablespoons of cognac • 2 tablespoons of water • 3-4 cups of flour • 1 teaspoon baking powder Instructions Mix all the ingredients Cut the dough whatever shape you like Bake at 180 o Celsius for 30’ Sprinkle with caster sugar
- 14. The sweets areready on the 24 December when children go door to door singing Carols ,playing their musical instruments or their triangles. People give them money and sweets!
- 15. The same daygroups of pupils or soldiers or even grown ups wearing traditional clothes visit politicians and sing the Carols to them!
- 16. While the youngestsing the carols mums prepare Christmas lunch! This day we usually cook pork,(pork chops ,pork steaks ,sausages) in the past all the villagers used to have their own pigs so they cooked it after a long period of Lent!
- 17. Pork cooked inthe oven, pork with plumps, pork cooked outside traditionally and pork with oranges!
- 18. The Greeks eata lot of sweets on Christmas Day. They also give them to friends and relatives as a present during Christmas and treat all visitors!
- 19. Kourabiedes ,kataifi ,melomakarona!!!
- 20. Last but notleast, we bake Christmas bread too. It is made with a basil yeast and it is decorated too!
- 21. More photos ofChristopsomo (bread)!
- 22. …that’s the waycelebrate Jesus Christ’s birth!!!!!!!!!!