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Pepperkaker Recipe
‘Pepperkaker’ our Norwegian Gingerbread Recipe 150g dairy butter 100ml sugar syrup 200ml sugar 100ml whipping cream 1/2 tsp cloves 1/2 tsp dried ginger 1/2 tsp pepper 2 tsp cinomon 1 tsp baking powder about 450g plain flour Method Mix butter, … Continue reading
Recipe for Glőgg
I love this warming Christmas Drink, the Norwegian version of the Alps Gluhwein and our Mulled Wine. Follow this easy Glőgg recipe to make your own great-tasting spiced wine. 1 bottle of red wine 0.5 Liter inexpensive brandy or vodka … Continue reading
Twelfth Night
After New Year we have it in our minds that the Christmas decorations must come down before 6th January. My son asked my why and I honestly could not remember, so decided to look up where the superstition came from.. … Continue reading
23rd December Our Christmas Tree
Nicholas and I made these heart baskets just like the ones I have described on our Blog today and we filled them with his blue icing shapes. Here they are!
Edible Christmas decorations
Christmas is not the same without my children making icing shapes for our Christmas Tree Baskets. Blue is the chosen colour this year and since the children are in charge my view is that they can do whatever colour they … Continue reading
A Joke for Christmas
In case Christmas is getting you down I thought I would tell you a joke! A Nursery School class were asked what they thought Mary and Joseph’s son was called. There was a ponderous silence and then lots of hands … Continue reading
Christmas Tree Decoration
We loved making these as children and I still have some that my own Mother made as a child! How to make Norwegian Christmas baskets STEP 1) Take two pieces of colored paper about 8×12 cm and fold them in … Continue reading
Cocktails for Christmas. (And a non-alcoholic one too.)
Cocktails are fabulous for a Christmas party. You can serve them pre-lunch. You can serve them pre-dinner. And of course, cocktails always hit the right note at a party. Being greeted by a tray of enticing drinks makes … Continue reading
Stocking Fillers for Men: 10 Useful Ideas
If it’s true that men are all little boys at heart, then it’s all the more reason to pander to the little boy in them and make sure that Father Christmas has left an intriguing, knobbly Christmas stocking full of … Continue reading
Get yourself ready for Stir-up Sunday with this Christmas pudding recipe
Stir-up Sunday is traditionally the last Sunday before Advent starts and apparently takes its name from the Collect of the day in church (“Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord”) dating back to the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. And … Continue reading