silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
Title: Three men and a Dragon
Author: [livejournal.com profile] silvan_lady
Pairing: Vigorli
Beta etc: Beta: [livejournal.com profile] gattodoro thank you ♥
Rating: R
Wordcount: words
Warning Crack, crazy Christmas poetry,
Disclaimer:This is fiction, all made up, it never happened, no profit is made from it, and no offence is intended.
Author's Note: Craziness written for my 2016 Advent Calendar

(Three men and a Dragon)
silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
Where does Santa leave your Christmas presents?

When I was growing up I had a Christmas stocking (one of Dad's socks) on my bed and other 'Santa' presents downstairs.

My boys had Christmas stockings I bought which are a bit larger and which hang on the fireplace waiting for Santa to fill them. They also had red pillowcases for bigger Santa presents but family presents go under the tree. Of course, they are both adults now but when I suggested that they were too old for stockings and pillowcases a couple of years ago they quickly put me right!

Other countries have different traditions )
silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
This is my mother's recipe for Christmas Pudding. She used this recipe for over 50 years and it never failed.

Although it's called ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING, it doesn't have plums in it and it came from America originally!

English Plum Pudding Recipe )
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silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
Title: A Christmas Tree-t!
Author: [livejournal.com profile] silvan_lady
Pairing: Vigorli
Beta etc: Beta: [livejournal.com profile] gattodoro thank you ♥
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 390 words
Warning AU
Disclaimer:This is fiction, all made up, it never happened, no profit is made from it, and no offence is intended.
Author's Note: Written for my 2016 Advent Calendar

(A Christmas Tree-t!)
silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
AFirstChristmast

Title: First Christmas
Author: [livejournal.com profile] silvan_lady
Pairing: Vigorli
Beta etc: Beta: [livejournal.com profile] gattodoro thank you ♥
Rating: R
Wordcount: 1,218 words
Warning AU
Disclaimer:This is fiction, all made up, it never happened, no profit is made from it, and no offence is intended.
Author's Note: Written for my 2016 Advent Calendar and [livejournal.com profile] bluegerl’s birthday!

(First Christmas)
silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
Got balls? ;-) Sometimes if you're like me you end up with more spare Christmas baubles than you actually hang on the tree.

How about making one of these?

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Instructions )
silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
Silv’s Christmas cake
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8 oz (225g) margarine or butter
2 oz (55g) SR flour (or plain plus baking powder)
8 oz (225g) plain flour
8 oz (225g) soft brown sugar
8 oz (225g) raisins chopped
4 eggs 8 oz (225g) sultanas or currants
8 oz (225g) mixed peel
4 oz (110g) cherries
2 level tsps mixed spice
2 oz (55g) almonds
Pinch salt

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Cream the margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add slightly beaten eggs gradually, beating well after each addition. Fold in the sieved flour and salt with a metal spoon. Lastly add the fruit and flavouring and mix all well together. This is best mixed with the hands, as it is heavy with fruit. (Unless you have a Kenwood Chef – that beast could mix concrete!)

Bake in a 9 inch cake tin lined with greased grease-proof paper. Bake at 140C for about 3-31/2 hours.
(My oven cooks it in 2.5 hours so I’d test at that point.)

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This cake is improved by the addition of a wine-glassful of brandy as it is a very rich cake, and improves by keeping. The best method of adding this is to make holes in the bottom of the cake the next day with a skewer and pour brandy into the holes.

When cooked in the fan oven, the top of large cakes remain lighter in colour. Test after the recommended cooking time by inserting a warm skewer into the centre of the cake. If clean the cake is cooked.

NOTES:

Needs 2 x 8 oz (225g) packets of marzipan to cover)
silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
Several plants are associated with Christmas - here is some information about them.

Mistletoe and more )
silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
Title: Christmas Shopping List
Author: [livejournal.com profile] silvan_lady
Pairing: Vigorli
Beta: [livejournal.com profile] gattodoro & [livejournal.com profile] weepingnaiad thank you ♥
Rating: R
Wordcount: 482 words
Warning AU
Disclaimer:This is fiction, all made up, it never happened, no profit is made from it, and no offence is intended.
Author's Note: Ficlet written for my 2016 Advent Calendar

(Christmas Shopping List)
silvs_advent_dw: (Red tree)
151214055534Christmas Tree
1. Make diagonal creases, press firmly, open again
2. Make side to side and top to bottom creases, open again
3. Place diagonally. Lift bottom point to top point and then
4. 'lift, open and push down' the right side point. Turn over and repeat with the other side until it looks like picture 5.
5. Turn until open end is nearest to you.
6. 7. 8. Lift, open and squash each side again.
10. Re-position so the outer kite-shaped parts are smooth as per picture
11. 12. Tuck the 'top' of the kite up inside the model
13. Smooth it down
14. Stand up your Christmas tree!

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P.S. There will be a fic tomorrow!
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History of shortbread

Shortbread resulted from medieval biscuit bread, which was a twice-baked, enriched bread roll dusted with sugar and spices and hardened into a hard, dry, sweetened biscuit called a rusk. Eventually, yeast from the original rusk recipe was replaced by butter, which was becoming more of a staple in Britain and Ireland.

Although shortbread was prepared during much of the 12th century, the refinement of shortbread is credited to Mary, Queen of Scots in the 16th century. This type of shortbread was baked, cut into triangular wedges, and flavoured with caraway seeds.

Shortbread was expensive and reserved as a luxury for special occasions such as Christmas, Hogmanay (Scottish New Year’s Eve), and weddings. In Shetland, it is traditional to break a decorated shortbread cake over the head of a new bride on the entrance of her new house.

Shortbread originated in Scotland, with the first printed recipe, in 1736, from a Scotswoman named Mrs McLintock. Shortbread is widely associated with Christmas and Hogmanay festivities in Scotland, and the Scottish brand Walkers Shortbread is exported around the world. Shortbread is baked at a low temperature to avoid browning. When cooked, it is nearly white, or a light golden brown. It may be sprinkled with more sugar while cooling. It may even be crumbly before cooled, but will become firmer after cooling


Shortbread recipes )
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Sinterklaas

sinterklass

Sinterklaas or Sint-Nicolaas is a mythical figure with legendary, historical and folkloric origins based on Saint Nicholas. Other names for the figure include De Sint ("The Saint"), De Goedheiligman ("The Good Holy Man"), and De Goede Sint ("The Good Saint") in Dutch; Saint-Nicolas in French; Sinteklaas in Frisian; and Kleeschen and Zinniklos in Luxembourgish.
Sinterklaas is celebrated annually with the giving of gifts on 5 December, the night before Saint Nicholas Day in the Northern Netherlands and on the morning of 6 December, Saint Nicholas Day itself, in the (Roman Catholic) southern provinces, Belgium, Luxembourg and Northern France. He is the primary source of the popular Christmas icon of Santa Claus.

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