Christmas Around the World
It's extremely cold in Norway at Christmas time! Good for sledding and skiing and such. My boys would like it there. Me? I'd rather try Australia or some place in the southern hemisphere sometime. :) The beach at Christmas time sounds fun!
One of the Christmas treats in Norway is called Good Grud. There is suppose to be 2 dots over the letter u, but my computer won't do that. It's a dessert or pudding type of rice. The rice is cooked in two quarts of milk at a low temperature. I can imagine it ends up much more creamy than we experienced just cooking it on the stove. We also added way less sugar (like 1 T instead of 1 C) because it was sweet already! Their tradition is to hide an almond in one of the servings and whoever gets the almonds wins a piece of candy! I see on the internet that there is a red berry sauce people put over it also, but our book didn't say that.
Here is a link in case you'd like to try making Good Grud. Also called Norwedian Rice Pudding Dessert.
Chaeli's serving had the almond!
We also made some really neat woven paper heart baskets that are popular in Norway. It took us quite some time to figure out how to weave them so they ended up as baskets, but finally Chaeli was able to do it and show the rest of us. Now they just want to keep making these. Our paper baskets will end up on our Christmas tree as ornaments.
Here is a link for the woven paper heart baskets if you'd like to make them!
God jul (goo-yul) from Norway!
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