Transcript of Christmas Cookies Video



In my house we make Christmas cookies every year. We use cookie cutters in the shapes of angels, Christmas trees, snowmen, stars, and candy canes. We decorate them with icing and fun colored sprinkles.

These cookies go back to mumming which was a Christmas tradition in colonial areas in England. In mumming, Christmas stories were acted out abd food was used to helps depict the stories. Yule dows were cut-outs made in this tradition, often in the shape baby Jesus.

Also, in the 1800s, Pennsylvania dutch children created large cutout cookies as window decoration. Around this same time, Yule dows became popular again and were called Yule dollies. They were made with tin cutters and shaped like people, and decorated with icing.

Then in the 1840s, Santa became associated with Christmas and dollies representing him. Some of these cookies were so beautifully decorated that they weren’t actually meant to be eaten much like today’s gingerbread houses.

Around Christmas time, many different families practice multiple traditions, like these Christmas cookies, which come from all different cultures.

What is a traditional food that you and your family eat for a special holiday?






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