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boiled spinach. They believe that the Virgin Mary ate the greens the night before the birth of Christ.
Englishmen of the Middle Ages set the style for lavish Yule feasts. At one Christmas dinner, King Henry III served up 600 oxen. His guests finished off the meal with salmon pie and roast peacock, washing it down with brew from a wassail bowl bobbing with apples, toast, and roast crabs.
Swedes begin the season with a modest but more colorful meal. Long before dawn on December 13, lights flicker on in each home as the blondest daughter of the family tiptoes to the kitchen to prepare fresh coffee and buns. She then slips into a long white gown, and carefully puts on a glowing crown of candles.
The girL carries her steaming tray to ach bedside and brightens each dark room, symbolizing the light that will soon lengthen the days. Hie ceremony begins a month-long holiday season.
On January 13 the Christmas tree is lit for the last time with the wish: “May God bless your Christmas, may it last till Easter.”
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