Today we think back to childhood Christmases. We have a "food and health" theme on Wednesdays, and on this day before Christmas Eve, we're taking the opportunity to reminisce about the food memories of Christmases past. Great food memories are also health!
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What are your food memories?
I think most people have food memories from the past, both positive and less positive ones. Perhaps you ate a certain dish on a certain occasion or with a certain person, which means that you associate that dish with a particular feeling. Or maybe you remember something you were forced to eat, which was so awful that you hardly want to eat it even today.
For many of us, food plays a major role in our lives and our health - in more ways than one. And maybe we can help our children make great food memories! We've thought back to childhood Christmases and remember ...
How do you remember the food from your childhood Christmas?
How did you celebrate Christmas as a child and how do you remember the food from your childhood Christmas? Feel free to answer the questions in the comments! Our answers are here...
Peter: Dovetail cake and Christmas presents four times
Christmas Eve morning started with me having to put on horrible (itchy!) woollen trousers. We celebrated at both grandma and grandpa's house, and at grandma and grandpa's house, on the same day. There were Christmas presents four times!
First a Christmas present in the morning (so we would stay calm), then Christmas presents at grandma's in Gärdet, then at grandma's in Solna and finally at home in the evening. Grandma came from Germany so she served German Christmas food and Schwartsvaldtårta. Grandma served traditional Swedish Christmas food. Lots of cakes everywhere!
Helena: Snow, kick-starting and 'everything is a failure'
We celebrated at my grandma and grandpa's house in Lidhult in Småland on Christmas Eve. As I remember it, there was always snow and we used to go ice skating. We ate Christmas food in the kitchen (Grandma always said that "everything is a failure!" but it was always good anyway) and seven kinds of cookies in one of the living rooms of the big white house. One of the other days during Christmas we met grandma and grandpa in Halmstad.
Was there anything on the Christmas table when you were growing up that you not liked?
Peter: I did not like jam. I didn't like red cabbage either, neither the smell nor the taste.
Helena: I didn't like pickles either. The funny thing about red cabbage is that I beloved the smell, but I didn't like the taste so I didn't want to eat anyway. I just wanted to smell.
What are your favourite food memories from childhood Christmases?
Peter: The best food was pickled herring, which I really loved. And it was a fantastic luxury with all the cakes at grandma and grandpa's house.
Helena: The cakes of course! What I liked the most, however, was the roast brisket that we used to eat on Christmas Day at home. Salty and wonderfully tender.
Now it's your turn - what food memories do you have of childhood Christmases?
What traditions and dishes do you remember from your childhood Christmas?
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Nils-Åke+Hansson says:
Childhood Christmas is and are many thoughts around. Big family parties in the country, lots of food but we children would only be there on the side. And we were probably not at home many Christmas evenings but with the family Mum was widowed when I was 5 years old.
23 December 2020 - 10:25
Helena says:
What memories! Thank you for sharing! Sorry to hear that your mum was widowed so early!
23 December 2020 - 21:32
bmlarstravellingblog says:
As for traditional Christmas food, lutefisk has always been served on Christmas Eve evening, both when I was a child and later at my in-laws' house. This is probably the Christmas food I could never learn to eat.
The only "must" for me is a thin hard wheat bread that we have been baking for generations, either with ham and strong mustard or with a cheddar cheese.
23 December 2020 - 16:11
Helena says:
Interesting with the wheat thin bread! 🙂 I don't think I have ever eaten lutefisk actually 😉.
23 December 2020 - 21:33
BP says:
What lovely old photos you share with us.
All the Christmases I remember were celebrated at our house. Sometimes with the grandparents and/or mum/dad's sisters. As for food, I must admit that I don't remember. Except for all the cakes that mum had baked for several weeks before Christmas.
23 December 2020 - 19:36
Helena says:
Glad you like our photos! It took some rummaging in albums! 😉 Food doesn't have to be the most important thing. The most important thing is if you, hopefully, can have some positive memories!
23 December 2020 - 21:35
Johanna+in+Scandinavia says:
First a bath in grandma and grandpa's bathtub (in a cold bathroom). Then the day was spent with dad's side of the family with lutefisk for lunch. After Donald Duck on TV and crackers and nuts, it was off to grandma and grandpa again and Santa Claus came before it was time for porridge with juice sauce. Christmas dinner was on Christmas Day, with rice a la malta for dessert. The meatballs were probably the best and I always ate only a small piece of the jam, wanted to taste it with not so much....
23 December 2020 - 22:22
Matts+Torebring says:
What I disliked most of all at Christmas was "Rattlesnake". Mum made it, I don't know how, but it was hung from the ceiling on a pole to dry. It was disgusting. I remember a verse about it:
Sausages, sausages on the ceiling hanging
Dog, dog walks on floor and glares
If that sausage collects
We will never see it again.
What I still look forward to at Christmas is "Judebröd" and Delicatos struvor. The first is not available anymore.
26 December 2020 - 9:01