Recipes

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  Venison Tourtière

  This recipe, especially the old-style pastry, was inspired by an excellent article on tourtière by Julian Armstrong, a...

• Portuguese Shrimp Rissoles

  These little pastries, called rissóis in Portuguese, are sold everywhere in coffee shops and bar-eateries, especially in...

• Mexican Christmas Eve Salt Cod

  This Hispanic-Mexican dish follows the Spanish tradition of serving salt cod (bacalao) on Christmas Eve.

• Shrimp and Squid Salad

  In Italy, as in other Mediterranean countries, Christmas Eve is celebrated with fish and seafood, like this southern...

• Sauerbraten

  A Swiss-German and German specialty, sauerbraten (literally, “sour roast”) is served at celebratory meals. This Swiss-style...

• Badener Kräbeli

  These Swiss Christmas cookies (also called chräbeli) use the same dough as the better-known German springerle (Swiss...

• Swiss Spice Cakes

  This is an easy-to-make Swiss-style version of lebkuchen, which are spiced cookies made in many different forms throughout...