- Fish soup with carp
- Potato salad with mayonnaise, hard boiled eggs and boiled vegetble
- Cookies
- Fruitcake
- Gingerbread
The traditional meal (served as the dinner on the Christmas Eve) consists of fish soup or pea soup and friedfish (traditionally, carp) served with potato salad. The recepy for potato salad differs slightly among every Czech family. The main ingredients are: potato cooked with jacket, canned pea, onion, cooked carrot, parsley and celery, pickled gherkins, cooked eggs and mayonnaise. Some families may add grated apples or salami. The best potato salad is prepared a day before Christmas Eve so that all the ingredients could so called mellow and create the right taste of it. The Christmas dinner should be the first food consumed that day. Those who do not break the Christmas shrove are believed to be able to see a golden pig on a wall.
Before the Christmas holidays, many kinds of sweet biscuits are prepared. Traditionally, the more kinds the housewife prepares, the greater appreciation she gets. The Christmas cookies are than served during the whole Christmas period and exchanged among friends and neighbours. Very popular is also a preparation of small ginger breads garnished by sugar icing.
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