Merry Christmas! 😁 yes mince pies are one of the most common christmas food and its "minced" fruit not meat 😊 it used to be meat a couple of hundred years ago but now its a mixed of dried fruit, usually with a hint of alcohol and Christmassy spices 😋 you can have it cold or warm 😊
The landlady of my local used to make the best mince pies; they were actual minced meat pies, per the originals. As I hate dried fruit, they were the best mince pies ever!
Mince pies are one of the best parts of Christmas for me, warmed in the oven with lots of thick cream, I skip the Christmas pudding and go straight for the mince pies.
Mincemeat is NOT the same stuff as MINCED MEAT ! Taken from Wikipedia and I quote ‘Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices, and often beef suet, usually used as a pie or pastry filling. Mincemeat formerly contained meat, notably beef or venison.[1] Many modern recipes replace the suet with vegetable shortening. Mincemeat is found in the Anglosphere.’ Minced meat on the other hand is the flesh of an animal, chopped very finely (put through a mincer).
well, americans also think of pies as those giant things you cut slices off. tyler was surprised the mince pie was so small. when in europe, and probably many other parts of the world, we use the term pie to refer to those small pastries, regardless if they have meat or fruit in them. in fact, i think the ones with meat tend to be much more common than sweet ones. when tyler was talking about chicken pie, he probably meant those really big ones, the ones i've eaten were just about the size of a mince pie
Originally, centuries ago, pies were just invented as a cooking technique to keep dishes moist in crude early ovens; you didn't actually eat the pastry, you cut it open and ate the filling by itself.
It’s known as a Christmas Dinner ! I’ve never heard it called a Christmas Lunch and I’m 53, having lived in the U.K. all my life. Nobody I’ve ever known has called it this either ! Given that it can be served anytime after 12 noon and as late 4pm (in my own experience, in 1985, my parents and I went down to London to visit the parents of my brother-in-law, along with himself and my sister. We sat down for dinner at 2pm and were still eating at 6pm, because various other family members kept turning up and joining us, so we would be waiting for them to finish their course to wherever we had gotten to at that point ! It was tradition in their family to open presents AFTER Dinner, so we were opening them up after 6pm ! By 8pm, his mother had laid out a huge buffet, despite only finishing eating 2 hours before) ! 🤣😂🤣😂 The word DINNER can often be used for meaning LUNCH, and the word TEA is used to mean DINNER - it used to be a North/South England thing, but these days it depends on how you were raised as a child, and the kind of background you were from. It harks back to those of wealthy status; they would eat BREAKFAST (around 8am) LUNCH (at 12 noon), TEA (at 4pm) & DINNER (at 8pm) There are other words for the times we eat used in different regions of the U.K. too. I’ve heard Scottish people call Dinner, SUPPER; yet Supper has always meant something you eat before going to bed (a light snack, like a slice of toast or a biscuit [cookie]) to me. BRUNCH is used to mean a late BREAKFAST/early LUNCH Look it up !
I too only ever knew it as "Christmas dinner" during my childhood it was quite different because all our food was "rationed! you had to use coupons to get your entitlement during WW2. but the women where very good at providing for our Christmas Dinner no matter what. coupons or goods where bought and saved for our Christmas dinner. Now its quite different, Christmas stuff starts to appear in our shops and stores in August, so that the children don't get the "thrill " we had My Mother would not let us talk about what we would like (which nornally we where glad of anythingl I still have a present I received in 1940's which my Father had made for me. m very few toys available because of WW2, and alll foodstuffs and chocolate and sweets you had to have the coupons from your ration books. Because these days the supermarkets and stores load their shops and stores with the Christmas goods far too early it doesn't have the same "thrill" that we had. all our presents where a surprise, and not the greed that is around these days.
@@veronicawilliams7427 your memories are very much mine too as I was born before WW2 began. Chicken was a once a year treat,if one was available, at Christmas. Oranges and bananas never seen ( when I did have one, brought home by a sailor on demob leave in 1946 I didn't realise it had to be peeled and bit into it. Horrible! To this day I don't like bananas.I wouldn't wish those days back but I do think that having experienced real austerity (and ,being in London throughout ,air raids and V1 and V2 rockets) I am perhaps a little more appreciative of how much we have available now. And I am not insensitive to the plight of those who are suffering real hardship now and for whom the full shops are beyond their means. I wish I could help them all
Yea i normally do breakfast of croissants cut and toasted in a dry frying pan then some nice smoked salmon and topped with scrambled eggs, this is around 9-10( tea n coffee also) for my missus and 4 kids, then we open presents, i like to eat around 5pm myself but had so much stuff we actually ate at 6:30 this year (as I do all the cooking) , then we have Christmas pud about an hour or so later.
we British dont do Christmas Lunch..it's Christmas Dinner.. always has been, always will be...Turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast taters, cranberry sauce, Sprouts(unfortunately!) carrots. parsnips and all the extras, ...Merry Christmas one and all!!!
Third and final post, please understand that 'pudding' meaning a 'set custard type dessert' is PURELY an american usage of the word. Our uses of 'pudding' arent 'weird types of your pudding' they are other completely unrelated foods that just happen to use a common word. Its like car boot (aka trunk), vs boot on your foot. Merry Christmas!
We put crackers on the dinner table and you pull them with the person next to you before eating. The person who wins (who gets the large part) gets the gift, has to read out the corny joke to the table and we all wear our paper crowns when we eat our Christmas dinner 😊
I think 800 million Mince pies are eaten every year in the UK! They are fairly small as you noted. As an Anglofile Norwegian I've baked these a few times. They are lovely!!
We eat them in canada too, they are awesome. I do hope he learns what mince meat is though, he seems to always pause right as the answer is being said so he never gets it
The pies are made with sweet mince, no meat in them its actually fruit minced together. Then you have a normal mince and onion pie which is either beef or lamb. Usually have that kind of pie with mushy peas and chips
@@tonys1636 they also classify Halloween as a holiday and let's not forget 4th July. We celebrate Christmas like they celebrate Thanksgiving. And their school holidays are a bit different to ours, Fall break is usually a week or two in September or October. Winter break is usually a week in February or March including President's Day. Spring break falls a week in March or April which includes Easter holidays. Summer break is from 10-11 weeks (May to August/June to Mid-August).
If you had actually listened to the video before pausing it, it stated that a mince pie used to be filled with minced meat many, many years ago, but the recipe changed so that the modern pie is filled with dried fruit, so that it is now very much a sweet treat rather than savoury. Bah humbug and a merry Christmas.
The 'pudding' thing is another word that changes meaning as it crosses the channel. In the UK pudding can be used to describe any dessert that follows a main meal. Our 'puddings' specifically are dense, baked or boiled sponge cakes often filled with fruit, treacle or other goodies. They are not the gloopy, gelatinous desserts the word refers to in the USA.
A Christmas pudding is one of many stodgy British sweet puddings made with flour, fat dried fruits, treacle or other sweeteners, and cooked by boiling it in the bowl in a pan of water, for variable times. It's served hot, turned out onto a plate and with a spoonful of brandy poured over and lit. Served with a hot sweet sauce. The nearest thing to what an American calls pudding is a semi- instant cold concoction made with milk. We used to have something a bit similar over here in the 1960s called Instant Whip, very popular with children and impoverished students.
The minced meat in the minced pies does NOT contain meat. It is a combination of various fruits eg raisins and other similar fruits. The crackers should make a pop sound when pulled and it is absolutely essential to wear the silly hat which is in the cracker. The Xmas pudding is not gelatinous at all. You douse it in brandy and light it. The brandy soaks in and makes it taste absolutely delicious. You then put brandy sauce or brandy butter over it which makes extremely yummy. Some people have 12th night parties when they invite all their friends to come and take down all their decorations
@@Ariadne-cg4cq it's usually written all one word - mincemeat. Traditionally it still has animal fat in it in the form of grated suet - the white bits.
@@missharry5727 I know but my phone sometimes does it’s own thing regarding spelling and I didn’t notice it!!! Generally it prefers the American spelling of words which are spelt differently!
I have never heard it described as Christmas lunch and I was brought up in England. It's always known as Christmas dinner . So this is a new one on me ...
Yes, you are right: but isn't "dinner" a moveable feast? At lunchtime at school, I was subjected to "school dinners". Basically "dinner" is the main meal of the day which, on Christmas Day in the UK, happens to occur midway through the day.
Nobody calls it Christmas lunch. It is Christmas dinner, normally eaten between 1pm and 3pm. Christmas pudding is normally made two or three months before Christmas, and one is kept for Easter. The alcohol content preserves it.
The flames on the pudding is to burn off the alcohol. The Turkey as the Xmas bird is something that became more common after the turkey was introduced from America. The original Xmas bird in England used to be a Goose.
Pudding = ANY desert in the UK, not JUST the gloopy desert that you call pudding in the US. So yes, cakes, icecream, pies, tarts, yoghurt, fruit, etc etc is called pudding in the UK.
In British tradition the word "pie" is mostly associated with meat, ie steak & kidney pie; pork pie; meat pie, etc. Fruit pies are just an added bonus!!
tbh i much prefer the meat ones. the fruit ones often end up being a bit more disappointing, maybe they're just overly sweet. a nice and warm freshly made chicken pie is much better than any fruit pie
Aussie here we have all those traditions too including the the Queens message. The christmas crackers have the hat the silly joke and a prizs. I make my own sometimes so the prize can be serious or silly and personal to each person. Makes it more fun. The crackers have a skinny strip of paper inside with a little patch of a compound in the middle. The friction of pulling it apart causes rhe snaps or cracking noise. That video didnt demonstrate what usually happens. Mince (not minced) pies are sweet minced dried fruits and spices in short pastry to have as a snack accompaniement with tea or coffee also served warm or cold with cream or custard. We also have a late Christmas lunch although in Australia because its in summer many people will have cold food seafood etc. However if its the full hot meal with turkey ham gravy etc then we follow up with Christmas pudding, NOT a "jiggly" pudding again its a steamed mixed dried fruit pudding with flour eggs and milk etc. Sometimes prepared months in advance and soaked with alcohol, pre cooked, traditionally tied up in a pudding cloth in a ball shape , but now in a pudding bowl, left to develop the flavours, then cooked again on Christmas Day and served with flaming brandy poured over. Quite beautiful. Very rich and solid. The coins in the pudding are just a bit of fun for children for good luck for the next year. I believe lighting up the pudding with flaming brandy represents the passion of Christ and the (supposedly ) 13 ingredients represented the disciples. Christmas pudding has medieval origins and did include meat products but graduallg shifted from being savoury to sweet. In the 1600s King George I requested it at his first Christmas banquet.and the tradition was solidified and standardised in the Victorian era. Now served with any or all of the choices of cream custard brandy butter brandy sauce and ice cream. Lots of tradition and history behind Christmas Pudding. Unlike the American meaning for pudding which I think is more like mousse or custard or something set with gelatin, Pudding is generally just term for any dessert BUT it can also be savoury such as black pudding Yorkshire pudding steak and kidney pudding.
Merry Christmas! In the uk pudding can used as a way of saying dessert and many British puddings are in fact steamed or boiled cakes usually prepped and cooked in a bowl which gives them their shape. Christmas pudding is very much like a fruit cake made with mixed fruits and orange zest and Christmas spices and sometimes nuts and alcohol most often brandy and when serving it has brandy poured over and set alight to as someone has already said burn off the alcohol and enhance the flavour. It’s more like cutting a cake than cutting what you guys consider pudding.
I used to work in a factory which mad Christmas puddings part of my job was injecting the fruit cakes with the brandy, there's a surprising amount of alcohol that goes into them, always came home stinking of brandy from spillage throughout the day constantly lifting 25l drums of extra strong brandy over my head to refill the machine, that's mostly why Christmas pudding can last ages without going off, there's so much alcohol in there nothing can live or grow on them to make them go mouldy lol
My mum made the world's best fruit mince pies with a very short crust pastry. As a toothless old man I put my fruit mince thru a blender and reduce it to a paste. I add a little brandy to the mix and when you bite into the short crust, the whole thing just melts in your mouth. Also as a working class family when I was small you gave the postman or dustman (garbage man) a "Christmas Box" of a little money and/or mince pies, rum balls etc. as a thankyou for their service to you during the year.
My mum interrupted the family talking to ask if we could watch your video 😂☺️ Merry Christmas Tyler! Hope you have the most amazing day! Thank you for your videos, always entertaining!
Hi again Tyler, being Canadian, with a mum who was a British war bride, we had most of these traditions for Christmas. My Gran made home made crackers, for us all ( even had the snap inside. But ours were great! They were very personalized. My brothers used to have little mini cars and trucks and “ boy” things, mini had mini doll figures ( doll house size ) and other small toys. Then she would put in Cadbury Roses Chocolates and her homemade paper crowns. My Mum also made plum pudding. She would make it well ahead of Christmas along with her fruit cakes, adding generous amounts of brandy to them. We would have them all aflame when served. I hate fruit cake, but love plum pudding ( Needs cream and/ or sauces on it ( my favourite was a hot rum sauce ).Boxing Day is also a holiday in Canada. We used to use it as a day to enjoy our gifts from the day before, laze around and pig out again with left overs. Sometimes we would go for casual visits to friends or they would visit us. Nowadays they have Boxing Day Sales ( similar to Back Friday ). Another difference is in the US , stockings are hung by the fireplace ( or somewhere in the living room ). Our stockings were always at the foot of our beds on Christmas morning, which I believe is a more British tradition.
I live in Canada and my family was from the UK. I always hung my stocking on the fireplace mantle. You can get Christmas crackers in Canada too. I miss having an English Christmas
Sorry, tiny phone, clumsy fingers. It is possible to find Christmas crackers in suburban Seattle, but it's a bit of an odyssey. The worst cracker riddle I have ever heard goes something like this: Q: Why are there no horses on the Isle of Wight? A: Because there are so many Cowes to Ryde.
@@colinwilson4609 You can find crackers in Canada, nearly anywhere that Christmas decorations are sold eg. Walmart. When my kids were young. I used to make homemade ones for my kids. It was such a wonderful childhood memory having my Gran’s homemade ones.
I laughed at your pudding reaction. Its the most rich and flavoursome pudding ,somewhat like a vefy moist cake . Its covered in brandy and then set on fire before being brought into the room.
Merry Christmas dear Tyler! In my most favorite Christmas movie "it's A wonderful life" the angel Clarence goes to a bar with Jimmy Stewart (George Baily) and orders mulled wine!
Thank you for a much needed laugh. Your reaction to our mince pies and Christmas pudding was wonderful. Both are very sweet and rich, the pudding is often too rich for people especially when drowned in brandy sauce, brandy butter or cream. Small portions onl! Thanks for your videos, always entertaining Merry Christmas.
I’m not British but Greek. Many cultures have a tradition of hiding a coin or something in foods, usually a bread or dessert. In Greece on New Year’s Day a St. Basil’s cake or bread has a coin hidden in it. Every member of the family gets a piece. No one chokes because everyone is actively looking for the coin. The King cakes during Mardi Gras in Louisiana are a traditional brought to America by the French. Those have a tiny little plastic toy baby in them. Whoever finds the prize usually is to have good luck the coming year.
It was traditional to hide a coin a Christmas pudding. The coin ranged in value according to the means of the household. My Great Aunt used silver threepenny bits for twenty years after they disappeared from circulation--thereafter sixpences.
Christmas Mince Pies DO NOT have meat in. Traditionally, they DID have meat in, but now they are a desert food and are made of fruit and pastry. You can still get Mince Meat Pies, which are probably what you're thinking of. Mince pies are lovely :)
With regards to Christmas crackers, you can get fancy ones that have good presents in but most people just but the regular ones that have terrible presents because it's not about the present, it's more just a fun thing to do around the dinner table
Merry Christmas! UK pudding is nothing like US pudding - you have one mouse type dessert that you call pudding, for us almost anything (sweet or savoury) that's been boiled, steamed or baked can be a pudding. We can also refer to any dessert as a pudding, just to add to the confusion.
There’s no meat in minced pies anymore, it’s minced dried fruit. The Christmas crackers are often placed at the table for Christmas dinner, usually before eating the crackers are pulled, the person who gets the longer end wins the prizes inside, but as there is one cracker each you get another chance to win the prize, everyone is expected to wear the paper crowns at dinner. Btw it’s Christmas dinner but is served earlier than normal dinners traditionally served when returning from Christmas church service
Hi I am an American and I live in England. I have experienced both Christmas's and I prefer the British christmas. The mince pie is a fruit filled small pie and eaten warm with cream. The pudding is virtually the same fruit (no meat) pie without the crust. Puddings are eaten hot with cream and are very, very nice. I cook them every year. Anything else you would like to know just ask! Personally I don't look forward to Christmas as my grandaughter commited suicide just before Christmas in 2021, but I'm slowly coming to terms with that. So, Merry Christmas to you and also a Happy New Year. I hope next year holds great things for you. Lots of love and luck for next year.
I am so so sorry you had to have such a tragedy. I’m Canadian and my British mum died on Dec 29, 1959. I was 14 at the time, my brother 10. Losing a loved one is hard at any time of year, but seems especially hard over the Christmas season. My thoughts and prayers for you.
@@cheryla7480 Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers. I can certainly relate to your situation. It's awful to have that happen at Christmas for you and your brother at such young ages. Lets hope that this next year brings us a bit of happiness and love. Thank you Cheryl for your kind reply🙂
Roast turkey actually isn't the traditional bird originally eaten for a British Christmas dinner; I think that's a bit of cultural crossover from the USA & Thanksgiving. In earlier times, roast goose would be the centrepiece of a traditional Christmas dinner, but it's very rare to see now.
Hi Tyler - the door keeper! May you and all whom you love enjoy a blessed Christmas, and may you continue to provide us with entertainment, fresh views on things to which many of us have long grown accustomed, and much hilarity, in 2023. 🇨🇦🇰🇪🇦🇺🇬🇧🥳🎄
Great reaction 😊 The kissing under the mistletoe is an echo of the central part it played in ancient Britons winter lives - there is natural progesterone in European mistletoe and drinks were made that directly affected fertility , the knowledge is far more 'scientific' than is generally aknowledged now
Many of our Northern European Christmas food traditions come from the times when almost the only fruits available in winter were ones preserved for the winter by drying. Spices then too were precious and exotic - ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, etc. Nuts would be available in winter as well. Which is why our Yuletide feasting still features foods made with these ingredients - plus generous amounts of alcohol; Christmas cake, mince pies, Christmas pudding, mulled wine, marzipan, gingerbread... they are the flavours of Christmas. Chistmas pudding (mostly dried fruits, nuts, sugar, spices) usually also contains brandy, then just before being served is flambéed with more brandy, and then served with brandy butter or rum sauce. Mincemeat (NOT to be confused with 'minced meat') also usually contains brandy or some other alcohol. Christmas cake should ideally be made months in advance, and be regularly poked all over with a skewer and have brandy trickled over it, before finally being covered in marzipan and iced and decorated. Mass produced in the cheapest way, in a age when everything is available all year round, they may seem weird and unimpressive. But when made well, they are delicious :)
I'm older than the adults who made that video and this is the first time I've heard it called "Christmas lunch". For many the meal takes place somewhere across the mid-afternoon to the early evening (depending on the families traditions). If done early, a later light meal of left overs and party/snack foods is eaten.
same here and I think as an older person, of in my late 80's have experienvde so many changes not always for the better. As a child I remember going to collect a "duck" for our Christmas Day dinner and piece of "pork" for New Year from a local farming community from someone who had reared them at his small-holding. it was actually illegal to rear them or kill them without a licence.
This evening we had our Christmas meal with my wife’s parents. The Christmas pudding, made by a relative, was a beautiful cake- like concoction of dried fruits, figs, citrus. Peel, spices and much more. Soaked in brandy, and then topped in brandy and lighted it was delicious with cream. I found the traditional good luck coin, in this case a twenty pence coin in my portion, so made my wish. It’s a wonderful tradition and delicious.
To add to Simon`s good luck story, it was traditional many, many years ago for the housewife preparing the pudding before cooking ,to slip her wedding ring into the mixture and whoever got the cooked piece with the ring would be the next to marry .
We have an English breakfast and a Christmas dinner with Brussel sprouts, roast potatoes, chicken, Yorkshire puddings, Sage and onion stuffing, Peas, Carrots, Cranberry sauce, Beetroot pickled onions and gravy, with white grape juice drink and trifle for afters. this is my family and i's personal preference mince pies are eaten whenever anyone wants them, along with other sweets and treats, in other words Christmas Goodies .
Yes Tyler we all look a bit silly at Christmas time. That's part of the fun of it. I luv Christmas. Family and friends. Celebrating Christmas and the new year together. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍
Happy Christmas Tyler. Many years back at our office Christmas party I made a traditional plum pudding and set it alight with brandy and walked it to the table with the lights turned down. Quite magical.
There’s no meat in a mince pie. The concept of a mince pie is fresh and dried fruit,citrus zest,nutmeg,brandy and suet. Most people use vegetable suet now It makes for a sweet filling. Sweet pastry and cooked. Once cold they’re dusted with icing sugar. Really nice and christmassy Happy Christmas to you and your family and fondest wishes for the New Year 🎉🎉🎉🎄🎄☃️☃️❄️❄️❤
As mentioned, mince pies no longer contain meat. However, we have dozens of different varieties of meat pies - some made to be eaten cold - Pork pies, gala pies, Melton Mowbray pies... and ones we eat hot, with potatoes, veg, and lots of gravy - steak pie, steak and ale pie, steak and kidney pie, steak and mushroom pie, minced beef and onion pie, chicken pie, chicken and mushroom pie, chicken and leek pie, chicken and ham pie, scotch pie (with mutton), "pork and apple pie, meat and potato pie, game pie, rabbit pie, pigeon pie... the list is endless - all regions have their own versions of a meat pie. I will be making a turkey and ham pie on Boxing Day, to use the left overs from Christmas day.
In my house when I was a kid we used to have a full English breakfast, cooked a light lunch and then dinner at 4:00 with the whole family all sitting around a massive table with everything on it
We had our Christmas Dinner at 2pm ( running late) we call it Christmas Dinner served midday, then later on we can have Christmas Tea , if we think we can manage more food
It isn’t a hat, it is a crown! Representing the Three Wise Men (Kings from the East) who came to see Jesus. A shame these people don’t give full details. Happy Christmas to everyone
In my limited experience "posh" people call Christmas dinner "lunch" but more generally, the definitions of the words dinner, lunch, tea and supper are very much family dependant.
Boxing day is wonderful ,better than Christmas day for many adults .All the work and preparation (And stress) are over , few people want another big meal so are happy to eat leftovers and snack foods ,children have calmed down and are content to keep themselves amused with their new things and it's perfectly acceptable to spend the whole day in your PJs ,just lazing around .The following day is a Bank Holiday so if you don't have to return to work you can extend the Boxing Day theme for another day ,or go shopping if you can stand the thought .
In the UK Its called Christmas Dinner but we eat it at around 3-4pm. Then we eat turkey sandwiches later on if we get hungry late evening. The Christmas Pudding is soaked in brandy and lit on fire burning the alcohol. The Pudding is a steamed Suet Pudding that's made 2-3 months before Christmas (Suet is made of animal fat)
Tyler, you will never been an ordinary, typical anything, my friend! You're extraordinary and untypical - if not endlessly curious about us and our ways - not least as you've found the time to make a movie for us on Christmas Day! I hoper you're also well fed, watered, comfortable and satisfied right now, just as I am. Thank-you, and Marry Christmas!
Paul Harvey, l concur, Tyler is truly an extraordinary person! I follow him as Tyler Bucket, where he explores videos on his northern neighbours in Canada! A truly enlightened young man! Peace and Love from Canada!
Merry Christmas Tyler and if Santa looked like you in his hat he can come down my chimney anytime and empty his sack!! 😂😂😂 Christmas pudding with brandy sauce is amazing so don’t knock it until you’ve tried it and that goes for mince pies too with brandy sauce or clotted cream. Again mince pies are made with fruit and peel just like the pudding but there tends to be nuts in that too and they pour brandy over it then light it.
Mince pies used to be made with mincemeat but is now only fruit and spices often served with cream or brandy butter. But in Britain you do get savoury pies such as Steak & Ale, chicken & mushroom etc
Hi Tyler I appreciate the interest you show in the UK and you open mindedness. Christmas pudding and mence pies are very rich all on top of a large Christmas dinner and left overs on boxing day I have a walk
When considering the names of things in British traditions, its worth thinking of the history in the development of the language. For example Pudding can be traced back to Roman times, when it was a type of sausage, but not as we know sausages today. It was a mixture of everything - meat, vegetables, grain etc. It was cooked by boiling it. So a pudding is something that can include any type of produce, and is cooked by boiling (or steaming in more modern times). Particular puddings are made to particular recipes. So Christmas Pudding is made mostly with fruit and flour, but it is most certainly NOT a cake. Meat is another word that has been corrupted over centuries. A thousand years or more ago, meat simply meant food (as in meat and drink). Like puddings, meat would be whatever the recipe demanded Mincemeat pies are made with the principle ingredient being fruit, which is cooked into a thick sweet paste and flavoured with spices such as cinnamon. Then it's encased on short pastry and baked. Hence: mince pie! No meat (modern definiton) to be seen anywhere.
@@brentwoodbay Mince pies made with beef suet and/or lard are still very common, though the majority of mince pies now use vegetable shortening instead.
Merry Christmas Tyler As an aside... some of the these traditions have been adopted by a lot of the Commonwealth countries (including New Zealand and Australia). In New Zealand we do have Christmas cards, the mistletoe tradition, Christmas crackers, Christmas lunch, Christmas Mince Pies, Christmas pudding and they do play the Queens/Kings Message in NZ but usually on Boxing Day since we are 6-7 hours ahead of the UK). In regards to Mince pies (not Minced pie) there are two forms. The common one which you call a meat pie (we don't use sweet pastry) and the Christmas mince pie mentioned in this video.
In the UK "Pudding" usually refers to things served for the actual dessert course, for example "what's for pudding?" With the exception of black pudding, Yorkshire pudding, pease pudding and steak and kidney pudding.
Yes Tyler Christmas pudding. After making them stored away for months. The Idea of setting on fire it's warm inside with cream or custard. yummy yummy food in my tummy. and who ever found the coin inside ment to be good luck. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍
A Christmas pudding is usually fruit based and the burning is Brandy, rum or whisky (or all three), if you ever get the chance to try it hot with cold cream your taste buds will love you forever . Merry Christmas to our colonial cousins :)
In fact, Christmas cards are not particularly common in Europe (as I have found). Mince pies are usually dried fruit soaked in brandy - they used to have meat in them (and more recently suet) but don't really nowadays. They are delicious. Especially with brandy butter. Crackers snap rather than explode. You are wondering about the paper hats in a sceptical way whilst wearing a santa hat.
Funny just had to pause the video as the King's speech comes on, it is shown on RUclips so everyone can watch it, a Christmas pudding is basically a cake, pudding is what we call what we eat after Dinner / Lunch (we use those words interchangeably) we set it on fire for the affect and I believe it burns off some of the booze as it is likely to get you drunk otherwise 😂 esp with a proper brandy sauce
Mince pie is not made with meat anymore,not for hundreds of years. The filling is made of mixed dried fruits and sweetened with sugar and spices. It's delicious. We eat them for Christmas in Now as for the Christmas "pudding", you need to understand that the term "pudding" was for generations referring to "dessert". The actual "Christmas pudding" is actually more of a type of fruit cake, spicy and sweet, which is boiled in a clothe bag, or cooked inan earthenware bowl under steam. It is often, but not always doused with brandy or rum, to help preserve it as it sits, covered, allowing all the fruit flavours to blend. I love the pudding but it is an aquired taste. My kids don't care for it, but I like it served with vanilla icecream, or with a creamy sweet sauce. Canada too.
boxing day in the uk is basically like a second christmas day where u often visit ur other side of the family and exchange gifts and often have another christmas dinner or buffet type food
Happy Christmas to all including the trolls (your present trolls is a bag of nothing)😂 as I’m cooking the turkey and boiling the ham, I had this vid on in the back ground and nearly dropped all the veg as my jaw hit the ground about the mince pies! NO MEAT in mince pies , no no no just fruit and spices some times a bit of alcohol (depends how Much you want to spend) and dusting of sugar. I heat mine and add brandy butter and double cream. It is sweet 😠 no meat! Had to rant and rave sorry
I was brought up with lunch it was Christmas dinner but in the evening meal it was turkey sandwiches and mines pies and trifle and fruit in 54 yrs I never eaten the coins in it but I have found all the coins in my slice all 6 of them my brother was so upset I gave him some
Firstly mulled wine had a red hot poker out of the fire dipped in it. The Druids stared using mistletoe as a fertility symbol. Mince pies filled with fruit soaked in brandy. Christmas speech First started by the invention of radio. Turkey lunch an import from America, goose before that! Pudding could be boiled and a sprig of Holly on top that would also catch fire😄 Boxing Day the Toffs hunted the fox on horse. And after 12th night, Never burn your decorations. Bad luck! Merry Christmas 🧐
We weren't allowed to open our tree presents until after Christmas dinner (starts 1-2pm) and after the Queen's speech. We were allowed to open our santa presents in the morning, we'd take our filled pillowcase from the end of our bed to our parents room, wake them up and start opening the presents. The santa presents were small things like a small toy, selection box, chocolate coins, toothbrush, pjs etc. The tree presents were from family and were bigger things like main toys or a bike, and sometimes a shared sibling present like concert tickets. I'm 26 now so no santa presents but still wait till after the King's speech this year before opening presents. A traditional probably only for my military family was watching The Great Escape after opening presents, although the film is still shown at Christmas on TV every year so maybe not just my family's tradition
The Speech was started when the Queen was a child during WWII to boost the country’s morale. She did it with her sister. When she became queen she continued the speeches on radio and then went to tv. Charles’ speech was quite good. The lighting of the pudding was to burn off the alcohol that it was drenched in.
The Christmas broadcast by the Monarch started with King George V in 1932 being continued with very few omissions by his heirs. Her late Majesty made her first such radio broadcast in 1952. In 1957 she made her first television broadcast which I do remember as I was 19 at the time and anticipation and excitement ran quite high ahead of the live airing.🏴🇬🇧
The Queen's Christmas Speech goes out to the entire Commonwealth, not just the UK.
She used to - King Charles 111 did it today
I didn't know that Stu 👌
@@mystified1429 King Charles III not one hundred and eleven.
Merry Christmas! 😁 yes mince pies are one of the most common christmas food and its "minced" fruit not meat 😊 it used to be meat a couple of hundred years ago but now its a mixed of dried fruit, usually with a hint of alcohol and Christmassy spices 😋 you can have it cold or warm 😊
The landlady of my local used to make the best mince pies; they were actual minced meat pies, per the originals. As I hate dried fruit, they were the best mince pies ever!
And they are everywhere. We eat millions of the things!!
Mince pies are one of the best parts of Christmas for me, warmed in the oven with lots of thick cream, I skip the Christmas pudding and go straight for the mince pies.
I believe that traditional mince meat pies are made with minced beef suet (fat) as well as the fruit.
Mincemeat is NOT the same stuff as MINCED MEAT !
Taken from Wikipedia and I quote ‘Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices, and often beef suet, usually used as a pie or pastry filling. Mincemeat formerly contained meat, notably beef or venison.[1] Many modern recipes replace the suet with vegetable shortening. Mincemeat is found in the Anglosphere.’
Minced meat on the other hand is the flesh of an animal, chopped very finely (put through a mincer).
Americas idea that pie must be sweet is oddly restrictive. Savoury pastries are absolutely fantastic.
well, americans also think of pies as those giant things you cut slices off. tyler was surprised the mince pie was so small. when in europe, and probably many other parts of the world, we use the term pie to refer to those small pastries, regardless if they have meat or fruit in them. in fact, i think the ones with meat tend to be much more common than sweet ones. when tyler was talking about chicken pie, he probably meant those really big ones, the ones i've eaten were just about the size of a mince pie
They don't have Greggs is the US. They are missing out on so much!! 😁😁
We have savory pies in the US…they just aren’t as popular as the sweet varieties.
Originally, centuries ago, pies were just invented as a cooking technique to keep dishes moist in crude early ovens; you didn't actually eat the pastry, you cut it open and ate the filling by itself.
100% agree!
It’s known as a Christmas Dinner ! I’ve never heard it called a Christmas Lunch and I’m 53, having lived in the U.K. all my life. Nobody I’ve ever known has called it this either ! Given that it can be served anytime after 12 noon and as late 4pm (in my own experience, in 1985, my parents and I went down to London to visit the parents of my brother-in-law, along with himself and my sister. We sat down for dinner at 2pm and were still eating at 6pm, because various other family members kept turning up and joining us, so we would be waiting for them to finish their course to wherever we had gotten to at that point ! It was tradition in their family to open presents AFTER Dinner, so we were opening them up after 6pm ! By 8pm, his mother had laid out a huge buffet, despite only finishing eating 2 hours before) ! 🤣😂🤣😂
The word DINNER can often be used for meaning LUNCH, and the word TEA is used to mean DINNER - it used to be a North/South England thing, but these days it depends on how you were raised as a child, and the kind of background you were from.
It harks back to those of wealthy status; they would eat BREAKFAST (around 8am) LUNCH (at 12 noon), TEA (at 4pm) & DINNER (at 8pm)
There are other words for the times we eat used in different regions of the U.K. too. I’ve heard Scottish people call Dinner, SUPPER; yet Supper has always meant something you eat before going to bed (a light snack, like a slice of toast or a biscuit [cookie]) to me.
BRUNCH is used to mean a late BREAKFAST/early LUNCH
Look it up !
Quite right. Nobody absolutely nobody I know calls the Christmas megafeast anything but a Christmas dinner.🏴🇬🇧
I too only ever knew it as "Christmas dinner" during my childhood it was quite different because all our food was "rationed! you had to use coupons to get your entitlement during WW2. but the women where very good at providing for our Christmas Dinner no matter what. coupons or goods where bought and saved for our Christmas dinner. Now its quite different, Christmas stuff starts to appear in our shops and stores in August, so that the children don't get the "thrill " we had My Mother would not let us talk about what we would like (which nornally we where glad of anythingl I still have a present I received in 1940's which my Father had made for me. m very few toys available because of WW2, and alll foodstuffs and chocolate and sweets you had to have the coupons from your ration books. Because these days the supermarkets and stores load their shops and stores with the Christmas goods far too early it doesn't have the same "thrill" that we had. all our presents where a surprise, and not the greed that is around these days.
@@veronicawilliams7427 your memories are very much mine too as I was born before WW2 began. Chicken was a once a year treat,if one was available, at Christmas. Oranges and bananas never seen ( when I did have one, brought home by a sailor on demob leave in 1946 I didn't realise it had to be peeled and bit into it. Horrible! To this day I don't like bananas.I wouldn't wish those days back but I do think that having experienced real austerity (and ,being in London throughout ,air raids and V1 and V2 rockets) I am perhaps a little more appreciative of how much we have available now. And I am not insensitive to the plight of those who are suffering real hardship now and for whom the full shops are beyond their means. I wish I could help them all
Yea i normally do breakfast of croissants cut and toasted in a dry frying pan then some nice smoked salmon and topped with scrambled eggs, this is around 9-10( tea n coffee also) for my missus and 4 kids, then we open presents, i like to eat around 5pm myself but had so much stuff we actually ate at 6:30 this year (as I do all the cooking) , then we have Christmas pud about an hour or so later.
we British dont do Christmas Lunch..it's Christmas Dinner.. always has been, always will be...Turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast taters, cranberry sauce, Sprouts(unfortunately!) carrots. parsnips and all the extras, ...Merry Christmas one and all!!!
Third and final post, please understand that 'pudding' meaning a 'set custard type dessert' is PURELY an american usage of the word. Our uses of 'pudding' arent 'weird types of your pudding' they are other completely unrelated foods that just happen to use a common word. Its like car boot (aka trunk), vs boot on your foot. Merry Christmas!
Pudding was a method of cooking - wrapped in a cloth and boiled. It was and is used for both savoury and sweet dishes.
We put crackers on the dinner table and you pull them with the person next to you before eating. The person who wins (who gets the large part) gets the gift, has to read out the corny joke to the table and we all wear our paper crowns when we eat our Christmas dinner 😊
I think 800 million Mince pies are eaten every year in the UK!
They are fairly small as you noted.
As an Anglofile Norwegian I've baked these a few times. They are lovely!!
We eat them in canada too, they are awesome. I do hope he learns what mince meat is though, he seems to always pause right as the answer is being said so he never gets it
The pies are made with sweet mince, no meat in them its actually fruit minced together. Then you have a normal mince and onion pie which is either beef or lamb. Usually have that kind of pie with mushy peas and chips
One of the biggest differences is we don't refer to it as the Holidays, it's just Christmas.
Happy Christmas 🌲🎅
In the UK "the holiday season" would probably mean late summer.
Americans don't get many holidays so saying Happy Holidays emphasises the fact. Easter and Thanksgiving are the only ones mentioned by name.
@@tonys1636 they also classify Halloween as a holiday and let's not forget 4th July. We celebrate Christmas like they celebrate Thanksgiving. And their school holidays are a bit different to ours, Fall break is usually a week or two in September or October. Winter break is usually a week in February or March including President's Day. Spring break falls a week in March or April which includes Easter holidays. Summer break is from 10-11 weeks (May to August/June to Mid-August).
Or, Merry Christmas.
If you had actually listened to the video before pausing it, it stated that a mince pie used to be filled with minced meat many, many years ago, but the recipe changed so that the modern pie is filled with dried fruit, so that it is now very much a sweet treat rather than savoury. Bah humbug and a merry Christmas.
The 'pudding' thing is another word that changes meaning as it crosses the channel. In the UK pudding can be used to describe any dessert that follows a main meal. Our 'puddings' specifically are dense, baked or boiled sponge cakes often filled with fruit, treacle or other goodies. They are not the gloopy, gelatinous desserts the word refers to in the USA.
Nothin' like a good Christmas pud, especially with some custard!
A Christmas pudding is one of many stodgy British sweet puddings made with flour, fat dried fruits, treacle or other sweeteners, and cooked by boiling it in the bowl in a pan of water, for variable times. It's served hot, turned out onto a plate and with a spoonful of brandy poured over and lit. Served with a hot sweet sauce. The nearest thing to what an American calls pudding is a semi- instant cold concoction made with milk. We used to have something a bit similar over here in the 1960s called Instant Whip, very popular with children and impoverished students.
The minced meat in the minced pies does NOT contain meat. It is a combination of various fruits eg raisins and other similar fruits. The crackers should make a pop sound when pulled and it is absolutely essential to wear the silly hat which is in the cracker. The Xmas pudding is not gelatinous at all. You douse it in brandy and light it. The brandy soaks in and makes it taste absolutely delicious. You then put brandy sauce or brandy butter over it which makes extremely yummy. Some people have 12th night parties when they invite all their friends to come and take down all their decorations
@@Ariadne-cg4cq it's usually written all one word - mincemeat. Traditionally it still has animal fat in it in the form of grated suet - the white bits.
@@missharry5727 I know but my phone sometimes does it’s own thing regarding spelling and I didn’t notice it!!! Generally it prefers the American spelling of words which are spelt differently!
I have never heard it described as Christmas lunch and I was brought up in England. It's always known as Christmas dinner . So this is a new one on me ...
I agree Margaret, I'm 51 and never heard of a Christmas lunch, it's Christmas Dinner..
yes but it is a late lunch, so you can get the drinking started early
@Tony Jefferson drinking always started in the morning in our house Tony, so maybe it's a Christmas brunch? 😁
Yes, you are right: but isn't "dinner" a moveable feast? At lunchtime at school, I was subjected to "school dinners". Basically "dinner" is the main meal of the day which, on Christmas Day in the UK, happens to occur midway through the day.
The only time I've had a Christmas lunch was a works Christmas do.
Nobody calls it Christmas lunch. It is Christmas dinner, normally eaten between 1pm and 3pm. Christmas pudding is normally made two or three months before Christmas, and one is kept for Easter. The alcohol content preserves it.
The flames on the pudding is to burn off the alcohol. The Turkey as the Xmas bird is something that became more common after the turkey was introduced from America. The original Xmas bird in England used to be a Goose.
I've never heard it called a Christmas lunch. It's Christmas dinner, no matter what time of the day you have it.
Pudding = ANY desert in the UK, not JUST the gloopy desert that you call pudding in the US. So yes, cakes, icecream, pies, tarts, yoghurt, fruit, etc etc is called pudding in the UK.
Don't be rude.
and sometimes, it's called 'afters'.
In British tradition the word "pie" is mostly associated with meat, ie steak & kidney pie; pork pie; meat pie, etc. Fruit pies are just an added bonus!!
tbh i much prefer the meat ones. the fruit ones often end up being a bit more disappointing, maybe they're just overly sweet. a nice and warm freshly made chicken pie is much better than any fruit pie
Aussie here we have all those traditions too including the the Queens message. The christmas crackers have the hat the silly joke and a prizs. I make my own sometimes so the prize can be serious or silly and personal to each person. Makes it more fun. The crackers have a skinny strip of paper inside with a little patch of a compound in the middle. The friction of pulling it apart causes rhe snaps or cracking noise. That video didnt demonstrate what usually happens. Mince (not minced) pies are sweet minced dried fruits and spices in short pastry to have as a snack accompaniement with tea or coffee also served warm or cold with cream or custard. We also have a late Christmas lunch although in Australia because its in summer many people will have cold food seafood etc. However if its the full hot meal with turkey ham gravy etc then we follow up with Christmas pudding, NOT a "jiggly" pudding again its a steamed mixed dried fruit pudding with flour eggs and milk etc. Sometimes prepared months in advance and soaked with alcohol, pre cooked, traditionally tied up in a pudding cloth in a ball shape , but now in a pudding bowl, left to develop the flavours, then cooked again on Christmas Day and served with flaming brandy poured over. Quite beautiful. Very rich and solid. The coins in the pudding are just a bit of fun for children for good luck for the next year. I believe lighting up the pudding with flaming brandy represents the passion of Christ and the (supposedly ) 13 ingredients represented the disciples. Christmas pudding has medieval origins and did include meat products but graduallg shifted from being savoury to sweet. In the 1600s King George I requested it at his first Christmas banquet.and the tradition was solidified and standardised in the Victorian era. Now served with any or all of the choices of cream custard brandy butter brandy sauce and ice cream. Lots of tradition and history behind Christmas Pudding. Unlike the American meaning for pudding which I think is more like mousse or custard or something set with gelatin, Pudding is generally just term for any dessert BUT it can also be savoury such as black pudding Yorkshire pudding steak and kidney pudding.
Merry Christmas! In the uk pudding can used as a way of saying dessert and many British puddings are in fact steamed or boiled cakes usually prepped and cooked in a bowl which gives them their shape. Christmas pudding is very much like a fruit cake made with mixed fruits and orange zest and Christmas spices and sometimes nuts and alcohol most often brandy and when serving it has brandy poured over and set alight to as someone has already said burn off the alcohol and enhance the flavour. It’s more like cutting a cake than cutting what you guys consider pudding.
I used to work in a factory which mad Christmas puddings part of my job was injecting the fruit cakes with the brandy, there's a surprising amount of alcohol that goes into them, always came home stinking of brandy from spillage throughout the day constantly lifting 25l drums of extra strong brandy over my head to refill the machine, that's mostly why Christmas pudding can last ages without going off, there's so much alcohol in there nothing can live or grow on them to make them go mouldy lol
My mum made the world's best fruit mince pies with a very short crust pastry. As a toothless old man I put my fruit mince thru a blender and reduce it to a paste. I add a little brandy to the mix and when you bite into the short crust, the whole thing just melts in your mouth. Also as a working class family when I was small you gave the postman or dustman (garbage man) a "Christmas Box" of a little money and/or mince pies, rum balls etc. as a thankyou for their service to you during the year.
My mum interrupted the family talking to ask if we could watch your video 😂☺️ Merry Christmas Tyler! Hope you have the most amazing day! Thank you for your videos, always entertaining!
Hi again Tyler, being Canadian, with a mum who was a British war bride, we had most of these traditions for Christmas. My Gran made home made crackers, for us all ( even had the snap inside. But ours were great! They were very personalized. My brothers used to have little mini cars and trucks and “ boy” things, mini had mini doll figures ( doll house size ) and other small toys. Then she would put in Cadbury Roses Chocolates and her homemade paper crowns. My Mum also made plum pudding. She would make it well ahead of Christmas along with her fruit cakes, adding generous amounts of brandy to them. We would have them all aflame when served. I hate fruit cake, but love plum pudding ( Needs cream and/ or sauces on it ( my favourite was a hot rum sauce ).Boxing Day is also a holiday in Canada. We used to use it as a day to enjoy our gifts from the day before, laze around and pig out again with left overs. Sometimes we would go for casual visits to friends or they would visit us. Nowadays they have Boxing Day Sales ( similar to Back Friday ). Another difference is in the US , stockings are hung by the fireplace ( or somewhere in the living room ). Our stockings were always at the foot of our beds on Christmas morning, which I believe is a more British tradition.
I live in Canada and my family was from the UK. I always hung my stocking on the fireplace mantle. You can get Christmas crackers in Canada too. I miss having an English Christmas
@@laurabailey1054 You miss having a British Christmas, it's a celebration across the whole nation, not just one part of it.
@@laurabailey1054 I am also from Canada, my grandparents are British and some of my relatives are American. Yes, it is possible to fins
Sorry, tiny phone, clumsy fingers. It is possible to find Christmas crackers in suburban Seattle, but it's a bit of an odyssey. The worst cracker riddle I have ever heard goes something like this:
Q: Why are there no horses on the Isle of Wight?
A: Because there are so many Cowes to Ryde.
@@colinwilson4609 You can find crackers in Canada, nearly anywhere that Christmas decorations are sold eg. Walmart. When my kids were young. I used to make homemade ones for my kids. It was such a wonderful childhood memory having my Gran’s homemade ones.
It made a year before and it's beautiful
I laughed at your pudding reaction. Its the most rich and flavoursome pudding ,somewhat like a vefy moist cake . Its covered in brandy and then set on fire before being brought into the room.
Merry Christmas dear Tyler! In my most favorite Christmas movie "it's A wonderful life" the angel Clarence goes to a bar with Jimmy Stewart (George Baily) and orders mulled wine!
I love when you goggle things. It amuses me greatly when it's things we simply take for granted
Thank you for a much needed laugh. Your reaction to our mince pies and Christmas pudding was wonderful. Both are very sweet and rich, the pudding is often too rich for people especially when drowned in brandy sauce, brandy butter or cream. Small portions onl! Thanks for your videos, always entertaining Merry Christmas.
I’m not British but Greek. Many cultures have a tradition of hiding a coin or something in foods, usually a bread or dessert. In Greece on New Year’s Day a St. Basil’s cake or bread has a coin hidden in it. Every member of the family gets a piece. No one chokes because everyone is actively looking for the coin. The King cakes during Mardi Gras in Louisiana are a traditional brought to America by the French. Those have a tiny little plastic toy baby in them. Whoever finds the prize usually is to have good luck the coming year.
It was traditional to hide a coin a Christmas pudding. The coin ranged in value according to the means of the household. My Great Aunt used silver threepenny bits for twenty years after they disappeared from circulation--thereafter sixpences.
Christmas Mince Pies DO NOT have meat in. Traditionally, they DID have meat in, but now they are a desert food and are made of fruit and pastry. You can still get Mince Meat Pies, which are probably what you're thinking of. Mince pies are lovely :)
Agree. Minced meat pies are mostly 'tart' sized... served warm with either rum sauce or ice cream.. delicious!
Mince pies normally contain suet, which is often made from beef fat, but there are vegetarian versions too.
With regards to Christmas crackers, you can get fancy ones that have good presents in but most people just but the regular ones that have terrible presents because it's not about the present, it's more just a fun thing to do around the dinner table
Merry Christmas! UK pudding is nothing like US pudding - you have one mouse type dessert that you call pudding, for us almost anything (sweet or savoury) that's been boiled, steamed or baked can be a pudding. We can also refer to any dessert as a pudding, just to add to the confusion.
Merry Christmas Tyler ,get a PO box and people will send them 😂x
There’s no meat in minced pies anymore, it’s minced dried fruit. The Christmas crackers are often placed at the table for Christmas dinner, usually before eating the crackers are pulled, the person who gets the longer end wins the prizes inside, but as there is one cracker each you get another chance to win the prize, everyone is expected to wear the paper crowns at dinner. Btw it’s Christmas dinner but is served earlier than normal dinners traditionally served when returning from Christmas church service
Hi I am an American and I live in England. I have experienced both Christmas's and I prefer the British christmas. The mince pie is a fruit filled small pie and eaten warm with cream. The pudding is virtually the same fruit (no meat) pie without the crust. Puddings are eaten hot with cream and are very, very nice. I cook them every year. Anything else you would like to know just ask! Personally I don't look forward to Christmas as my grandaughter commited suicide just before Christmas in 2021, but I'm slowly coming to terms with that. So, Merry Christmas to you and also a Happy New Year. I hope next year holds great things for you. Lots of love and luck for next year.
I am so so sorry you had to have such a tragedy. I’m Canadian and my British mum died on Dec 29, 1959. I was 14 at the time, my brother 10. Losing a loved one is hard at any time of year, but seems especially hard over the Christmas season. My thoughts and prayers for you.
@@cheryla7480 Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers. I can certainly relate to your situation. It's awful to have that happen at Christmas for you and your brother at such young ages. Lets hope that this next year brings us a bit of happiness and love. Thank you Cheryl for your kind reply🙂
@@robertagardner5461 And thank you for yours…….God Bless.
Roast turkey actually isn't the traditional bird originally eaten for a British Christmas dinner; I think that's a bit of cultural crossover from the USA & Thanksgiving. In earlier times, roast goose would be the centrepiece of a traditional Christmas dinner, but it's very rare to see now.
I’ve seen a reaction to a video showing the first and last Christmas speech, very moving to see ❤
Hi Tyler - the door keeper! May you and all whom you love enjoy a blessed Christmas, and may you continue to provide us with entertainment, fresh views on things to which many of us have long grown accustomed, and much hilarity, in 2023. 🇨🇦🇰🇪🇦🇺🇬🇧🥳🎄
Great reaction 😊 The kissing under the mistletoe is an echo of the central part it played in ancient Britons winter lives - there is natural progesterone in European mistletoe and drinks were made that directly affected fertility , the knowledge is far more 'scientific' than is generally aknowledged now
Many of our Northern European Christmas food traditions come from the times when almost the only fruits available in winter were ones preserved for the winter by drying. Spices then too were precious and exotic - ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, etc. Nuts would be available in winter as well.
Which is why our Yuletide feasting still features foods made with these ingredients - plus generous amounts of alcohol; Christmas cake, mince pies, Christmas pudding, mulled wine, marzipan, gingerbread... they are the flavours of Christmas.
Chistmas pudding (mostly dried fruits, nuts, sugar, spices) usually also contains brandy, then just before being served is flambéed with more brandy, and then served with brandy butter or rum sauce. Mincemeat (NOT to be confused with 'minced meat') also usually contains brandy or some other alcohol. Christmas cake should ideally be made months in advance, and be regularly poked all over with a skewer and have brandy trickled over it, before finally being covered in marzipan and iced and decorated.
Mass produced in the cheapest way, in a age when everything is available all year round, they may seem weird and unimpressive. But when made well, they are delicious :)
I've never heard it referred to as Christmas "lunch" - it's Christmas dinner, but is traditionally eaten sometime between noon and 3pm.
I'm older than the adults who made that video and this is the first time I've heard it called "Christmas lunch". For many the meal takes place somewhere across the mid-afternoon to the early evening (depending on the families traditions). If done early, a later light meal of left overs and party/snack foods is eaten.
same here and I think as an older person, of in my late 80's have experienvde so many changes not always for the better.
As a child I remember going to collect a "duck" for our Christmas Day dinner and piece of "pork" for New Year from a local farming community from someone who had reared them at his small-holding. it was actually illegal to rear them or kill them without a licence.
This evening we had our Christmas meal with my wife’s parents. The Christmas pudding, made by a relative, was a beautiful cake- like concoction of dried fruits, figs, citrus. Peel, spices and much more. Soaked in brandy, and then topped in brandy and lighted it was delicious with cream. I found the traditional good luck coin, in this case a twenty pence coin in my portion, so made my wish. It’s a wonderful tradition and delicious.
To add to Simon`s good luck story, it was traditional many, many years ago for the housewife preparing the pudding before cooking ,to slip her wedding ring into the mixture and whoever got the cooked piece with the ring would be the next to marry .
Apparently the reason of having the Christmas pudding on fire it supposed to burn of the alcohol before serving it .
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
We have an English breakfast and a Christmas dinner with Brussel sprouts, roast potatoes, chicken, Yorkshire puddings, Sage and onion stuffing, Peas, Carrots, Cranberry sauce, Beetroot pickled onions and gravy, with white grape juice drink and trifle for afters. this is my family and i's personal preference mince pies are eaten whenever anyone wants them, along with other sweets and treats, in other words Christmas Goodies .
Sorry, I keep remembering more. I’m old enough to remember sitting by the radio listening to the King’s message ( George VI ).
like you said Tyler. don't knock it till you've try it. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍
Wishing you and yours very happy Christmas TylerfromEngland
Merry Christmas Tyler to you and your family. ☃️☃️☃️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🎄🎄🎄
regarding Xmas puddings, you should also watch this YT vid - 'Edgar the dragon in joint John Lewis/Waitrose Christmas advert'
I'm American and I enjoy watching your reactions. Peace!
The France version of the flaming cake is the ' flambé ' desert. There are several flaming presentation dishes at high-end US restaurants.
Merry Christmas from Edmonton Alberta Canada! Look forward to more videos in the New year 😊
Merry Christmas from Wetaskiwin, Northern neighbor.
The pudding is chocolate cake with other rich spices, the fire is brandy burning off and leave the taste behind. Very rich taste.
Yes Tyler we all look a bit silly at Christmas time. That's part of the fun of it. I luv Christmas. Family and friends. Celebrating Christmas and the new year together. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍
In Britain, most people have dinner at lunch time. So we have Breakfast, Dinner, Tea then last of all Supper.
Happy Christmas Tyler. Many years back at our office Christmas party I made a traditional plum pudding and set it alight with brandy and walked it to the table with the lights turned down. Quite magical.
There’s no meat in a mince pie. The concept of a mince pie is fresh and dried fruit,citrus zest,nutmeg,brandy and suet. Most people use vegetable suet now
It makes for a sweet filling. Sweet pastry and cooked.
Once cold they’re dusted with icing sugar.
Really nice and christmassy
Happy Christmas to you and your family and fondest wishes for the New Year
🎉🎉🎉🎄🎄☃️☃️❄️❄️❤
As mentioned, mince pies no longer contain meat.
However, we have dozens of different varieties of meat pies - some made to be eaten cold - Pork pies, gala pies, Melton Mowbray pies...
and ones we eat hot, with potatoes, veg, and lots of gravy - steak pie, steak and ale pie, steak and kidney pie, steak and mushroom pie, minced beef and onion pie, chicken pie, chicken and mushroom pie, chicken and leek pie, chicken and ham pie, scotch pie (with mutton), "pork and apple pie, meat and potato pie, game pie, rabbit pie, pigeon pie... the list is endless - all regions have their own versions of a meat pie.
I will be making a turkey and ham pie on Boxing Day, to use the left overs from Christmas day.
I miss all those pies,moving to Canada
In my house when I was a kid we used to have a full English breakfast, cooked a light lunch and then dinner at 4:00 with the whole family all sitting around a massive table with everything on it
We had our Christmas Dinner at 2pm ( running late) we call it Christmas Dinner served midday, then later on we can have Christmas Tea , if we think we can manage more food
It isn’t a hat, it is a crown! Representing the Three Wise Men (Kings from the East) who came to see Jesus. A shame these people don’t give full details. Happy Christmas to everyone
Your white boots are dope brother.Merry Christmas to you and your family 👍
In my limited experience "posh" people call Christmas dinner "lunch" but more generally, the definitions of the words dinner, lunch, tea and supper are very much family dependant.
Merry Christmas Tyler
Boxing day is wonderful ,better than Christmas day for many adults .All the work and preparation (And stress) are over , few people want another big meal so are happy to eat leftovers and snack foods ,children have calmed down and are content to keep themselves amused with their new things and it's perfectly acceptable to spend the whole day in your PJs ,just lazing around .The following day is a Bank Holiday so if you don't have to return to work you can extend the Boxing Day theme for another day ,or go shopping if you can stand the thought .
In the UK Its called Christmas Dinner but we eat it at around 3-4pm. Then we eat turkey sandwiches later on if we get hungry late evening. The Christmas Pudding is soaked in brandy and lit on fire burning the alcohol. The Pudding is a steamed Suet Pudding that's made 2-3 months before Christmas (Suet is made of animal fat)
Merry Christmas Tyler and family and a happy new year. let's hope 2023. Will be a better year for all of us. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍 b Safe take care. 🎄⛄❄️🍺🎁🦃🍾🍷
Happy Xmas everyone I hope you all have an amazing day
Tyler, you will never been an ordinary, typical anything, my friend! You're extraordinary and untypical - if not endlessly curious about us and our ways - not least as you've found the time to make a movie for us on Christmas Day! I hoper you're also well fed, watered, comfortable and satisfied right now, just as I am. Thank-you, and Marry Christmas!
Paul Harvey, l concur, Tyler is truly an extraordinary person! I follow him as Tyler Bucket, where he explores videos on his northern neighbours in Canada! A truly enlightened young man! Peace and Love from Canada!
Merry Christmas Tyler and if Santa looked like you in his hat he can come down my chimney anytime and empty his sack!! 😂😂😂 Christmas pudding with brandy sauce is amazing so don’t knock it until you’ve tried it and that goes for mince pies too with brandy sauce or clotted cream. Again mince pies are made with fruit and peel just like the pudding but there tends to be nuts in that too and they pour brandy over it then light it.
Mince pies used to be made with mincemeat but is now only fruit and spices often served with cream or brandy butter. But in Britain you do get savoury pies such as Steak & Ale, chicken & mushroom etc
Hi Tyler I appreciate the interest you show in the UK and you open mindedness. Christmas pudding and mence pies are very rich all on top of a large Christmas dinner and left overs on boxing day I have a walk
When considering the names of things in British traditions, its worth thinking of the history in the development of the language.
For example
Pudding can be traced back to Roman times, when it was a type of sausage, but not as we know sausages today. It was a mixture of everything - meat, vegetables, grain etc. It was cooked by boiling it.
So a pudding is something that can include any type of produce, and is cooked by boiling (or steaming in more modern times). Particular puddings are made to particular recipes.
So Christmas Pudding is made mostly with fruit and flour, but it is most certainly NOT a cake.
Meat is another word that has been corrupted over centuries. A thousand years or more ago, meat simply meant food (as in meat and drink). Like puddings, meat would be whatever the recipe demanded
Mincemeat pies are made with the principle ingredient being fruit, which is cooked into a thick sweet paste and flavoured with spices such as cinnamon. Then it's encased on short pastry and baked. Hence: mince pie!
No meat (modern definiton) to be seen anywhere.
I think the last 'meat ' that they put in Mince Pies, would have been suet! I think that when I was very young , they may have still had suet in them!
@@brentwoodbay Mince pies made with beef suet and/or lard are still very common, though the majority of mince pies now use vegetable shortening instead.
Merry Christmas Tyler
As an aside... some of the these traditions have been adopted by a lot of the Commonwealth countries (including New Zealand and Australia). In New Zealand we do have Christmas cards, the mistletoe tradition, Christmas crackers, Christmas lunch, Christmas Mince Pies, Christmas pudding and they do play the Queens/Kings Message in NZ but usually on Boxing Day since we are 6-7 hours ahead of the UK). In regards to Mince pies (not Minced pie) there are two forms. The common one which you call a meat pie (we don't use sweet pastry) and the Christmas mince pie mentioned in this video.
In the UK "Pudding" usually refers to things served for the actual dessert course, for example "what's for pudding?" With the exception of black pudding, Yorkshire pudding, pease pudding and steak and kidney pudding.
That's pudding as a course but 'a pudding' is something that's been put together and then steamed. (Yorkshire pudding being the anomaly!)
Yes Tyler Christmas pudding. After making them stored away for months. The Idea of setting on fire it's warm inside with cream or custard. yummy yummy food in my tummy. and who ever found the coin inside ment to be good luck. from UK 🇬🇧👍👍
A Christmas pudding is usually fruit based and the burning is Brandy, rum or whisky (or all three), if you ever get the chance to try it hot with cold cream your taste buds will love you forever . Merry Christmas to our colonial cousins :)
The Post Office was founded by Oliver Cromwell. It's probably the Penny Post that's being referred to.
it is , cole was director of the V&A museum, its a good read if you google it.
In fact, Christmas cards are not particularly common in Europe (as I have found).
Mince pies are usually dried fruit soaked in brandy - they used to have meat in them (and more recently suet) but don't really nowadays. They are delicious. Especially with brandy butter.
Crackers snap rather than explode. You are wondering about the paper hats in a sceptical way whilst wearing a santa hat.
Hmmm I can only speak for the Netherlands, but sending Christmas cards has been a big thing for years.
@@Mazil_5 OK - I can hardly speak for all Europe but here in Germany it seems to be much less of a thing
You don't need crackers when you have concealed carry.
A little Spandau Ballet should do it.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
12th night (Feast of the Epiphany) is big all over Europe here known as 'Women's Little Christmas' as a party held to thank them.
give the British Sticky Toffee Pudding a try if you have the opportunity! It doesn't jiggle and isn't set on fire lol It's delicious!
One of the reasons mixed pies are considered popular around Christmas as it's the traditional food to give Santa (it's like a substitute for cookies)
Setting fire to the pudding w I was told to burn off the alcohol and was told enhance flavour by my Irish Granny.
Twelfth night is the night of the 5th jan, the first day of Christmas being Christmas day.
Merry Christmas ⛄🎄 I'm actually drinking mulled wine as I type 😁
Funny just had to pause the video as the King's speech comes on, it is shown on RUclips so everyone can watch it, a Christmas pudding is basically a cake, pudding is what we call what we eat after Dinner / Lunch (we use those words interchangeably) we set it on fire for the affect and I believe it burns off some of the booze as it is likely to get you drunk otherwise 😂 esp with a proper brandy sauce
Mince pie is not made with meat anymore,not for hundreds of years. The filling is made of mixed dried fruits and sweetened with sugar and spices. It's delicious. We eat them for Christmas in Now as for the Christmas "pudding", you need to understand that the term "pudding" was for generations referring to "dessert". The actual "Christmas pudding" is actually more of a type of fruit cake, spicy and sweet, which is boiled in a clothe bag, or cooked inan earthenware bowl under steam. It is often, but not always doused with brandy or rum, to help preserve it as it sits, covered, allowing all the fruit flavours to blend. I love the pudding but it is an aquired taste. My kids don't care for it, but I like it served with vanilla icecream, or with a creamy sweet sauce. Canada too.
Interesting about the Celtic Druids and mistletoe.
we call it as it is, merry christmas
boxing day in the uk is basically like a second christmas day where u often visit ur other side of the family and exchange gifts and often have another christmas dinner or buffet type food
Happy Christmas to all including the trolls (your present trolls is a bag of nothing)😂 as I’m cooking the turkey and boiling the ham, I had this vid on in the back ground and nearly dropped all the veg as my jaw hit the ground about the mince pies! NO MEAT in mince pies , no no no just fruit and spices some times a bit of alcohol (depends how Much you want to spend) and dusting of sugar. I heat mine and add brandy butter and double cream. It is sweet 😠 no meat! Had to rant and rave sorry
Merry Christmas 🍁. By the way “pudding” in England , means “desert” not that milky jello stuff
That typo made me laugh. Merry christmas. :-)))))
I was brought up with lunch it was Christmas dinner but in the evening meal it was turkey sandwiches and mines pies and trifle and fruit in 54 yrs I never eaten the coins in it but I have found all the coins in my slice all 6 of them my brother was so upset I gave him some
Firstly mulled wine had a red hot poker out of the fire dipped in it. The Druids stared using mistletoe as a fertility symbol. Mince pies filled with fruit soaked in brandy. Christmas speech First started by the invention of radio. Turkey lunch an import from America, goose before that! Pudding could be boiled and a sprig of Holly on top that would also catch fire😄 Boxing Day the Toffs hunted the fox on horse. And after 12th night, Never burn your decorations. Bad luck! Merry Christmas 🧐
The paper hats used to be more elaborate and more resilient when I was a kid, now they are all the same. I miss them.
Merry Christmas from Canada. You do a great job.
We weren't allowed to open our tree presents until after Christmas dinner (starts 1-2pm) and after the Queen's speech. We were allowed to open our santa presents in the morning, we'd take our filled pillowcase from the end of our bed to our parents room, wake them up and start opening the presents. The santa presents were small things like a small toy, selection box, chocolate coins, toothbrush, pjs etc. The tree presents were from family and were bigger things like main toys or a bike, and sometimes a shared sibling present like concert tickets. I'm 26 now so no santa presents but still wait till after the King's speech this year before opening presents.
A traditional probably only for my military family was watching The Great Escape after opening presents, although the film is still shown at Christmas on TV every year so maybe not just my family's tradition
The Speech was started when the Queen was a child during WWII to boost the country’s morale. She did it with her sister. When she became queen she continued the speeches on radio and then went to tv. Charles’ speech was quite good. The lighting of the pudding was to burn off the alcohol that it was drenched in.
The Christmas broadcast by the Monarch started with King George V in 1932 being continued with very few omissions by his heirs. Her late Majesty made her first such radio broadcast in 1952. In 1957 she made her first television broadcast which I do remember as I was 19 at the time and anticipation and excitement ran quite high ahead of the live airing.🏴🇬🇧
Merry Christmas tyler hoping u having a great really enjoy your videos and Content looking forward to your next posting tyler!
The paper hats in crackers resemble everyone playing the part of being kings and queens at the table.