The Christmas Dinner is the main Christmas meal and is tradtionally eaten at mid-day or early afternoon on Christmas Day in England, and also in the rest of Britain.

The Traditional Christmas Dinner

A traditional Christmas dinner includes roast turkey or goose, brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, cranberry sauce, rich nutty stuffing, tiny sausages wrapped in bacon (pigs in a blanket) and lashings of hot gravy.

Serving the Christmas Dinner

For pudding (dessert) we eat a rich, fruity pudding which is doused in flaming brandy – said to ward off evil spirits. This rich, fruity pudding is called the Christmas Pudding.
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Photographs of food eaten

Roast Turkey	Roast Potatoes

Brussels Sprouts and chestnuts	Parsnips and Swede

	Ginger Bread Stuffing by Nigella Lawson from Nigella's Christmas Kitchen (Recipe)
Stuffing

Bread Sauce (recipe)	Cranberry Sauce ( recipe)

A Turkey Wishing Tradition

A Christmas tradition involving the turkey is to pull its wishbone. This is one of the bones of the turkey which is shaped like the letter 'Y'. Two people will each hold an end and pull. The person left with the larger piece of the bone makes a wish. copyright of projectbritain.com

Christmas Crackers

Traditionally a Christmas cracker is placed next to each plate on the Christmas dinner table. When the crackers are pulled, out falls a colourful party crown, a toy or gift and a festive joke. (Click here to find out more about crackers)

Christmas Pudding

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