Comment About［Christmas Food🎄］

・ Arisa Hayashi

    She was making a presentation on Christmas cakes around the world. In Japan, people often eat decorated cakes at Christmas, which originated from Fujiya, famous for the character of Peco, and started selling in 1950. She also mentioned that Christmas is the birthday of Christ.

・Suzue Ishikawa

She introduced him to Stollen, a German pastry. I learned that Stollen is eaten when waiting for the birth of Christ and is eaten slowly over a period of four weeks. She explained that the dough is made of flour, eggs, and butter, mixed with dried fruits, nuts, and other ingredients, and after it is baked, white sugar is sprinkled on the surface.

・Rina Kawabata

She introduced a food called Ableskiver, which is eaten in Denmark. She described it as a pancake-like snack that looks like a Japanese takoyaki and contains sliced apples. I also learned that in Milan, Italy, a baked cake called hanetone, in Poland, a fish dish called fried cook, and in Germany, a baked cake called stollen are eaten at Christmas.

・Yuiho Kawamoto

She introduced Stollen, a German sweets, Christmas pudding, an English sweets, and Pavlova, a New Zealand pastry. All of them, I learned, are traditionally eaten during the Christmas season. After listening to her speech, I was surprised to learn that Christmas pudding is not the pudding we know, but a baked cake with the taste of brandy. I also learned that Pavlova is named after a ballet dancer and comes in a variety of flavors, which I found very appealing.

・Mutsumi Matsuda

She introduced a German pastry called Stollen. She described the sweets as being shaped like a tunnel. She also said that the charm of this pastry was that if you ate it little by little over a long period of time, you could enjoy the change in texture with the change in time. Stollen is a German pastry, but you can also buy it in Kumamoto, and she introduced a store called "My Gateau Chocolat".

・Jui Maruyama

She introduced Stollen, a German sweets, a sweets called Kugroff that is eaten in Australia, Switzerland, Germany, France and other countries, and a house of pastry that is made in Europe during Christmas time. She explained that kougloffs look like donuts with holes in the chiffon cake, and were a favorite of Marie Antoinette. The house of sweets is made of gingerbread, she explained, and is featured in Hazel and Gretel.

・Hibiki Nakayama

She introduced the French pastry, Buche de Noel, the German pastry, Stollen, and the advent calendar used in the United States. I learned that Buche de Noel is a type of rolled cake that is decorated like a log and is a Christmas candy made of white sugar to simulate snow. I also learned that the advent calendar is a system where you open the calendar one day at a time and find candies, cookies, and rectangles. I thought that children would enjoy this very much.

・Nao Arita

She was introduced to sweets from all over the world, including American candy houses, English Christmas pudding, German Stollen, and French Buche de Noel. She explained that Buche de Noel is a type of cake in which mushrooms are recreated with meringue, snow is recreated with white sugar, and rocks are recreated with cake. I also learned that Christmas pudding is a gorgeous pastry made by baking a mixture of fruit, flour, and eggs, then pouring brandy over it and lighting it on fire.