Why sausages on Christmas Eve?
You always read and hear that people eat sausages with potato salad on Christmas Eve. It's supposedly a tradition, it's always been done that way, it's a cult… I don't know. We never had that. We ate something more refined, appropriate for the holiday, which isn't to say that potato salad is primitive food (sausages are, but anything with potatoes is primitive).
So, why did or do you still have sausages with potato salad?
I have a few ideas, but feel free to write your own.
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The Holy Evening is traditionally fast. This has largely been forgotten, but the tradition has remained to make a rather modest meal. At noon, for example, only one soup or cheese soup, in the evening potato salad with sausage. In some families, this has also been refined, e.g. from the potato salad a potato-seed salad has been made and instead of sausage, for example, some pickling tongue or smoked duck breast. On the first Christmas holiday there is a big table.
It was only the case with us if my German grandpa did something on Christmas Eve. I found it nice, the potato salad was unbeatable and sausages always go.
PS: the grandpa even made the Mayo himself.
Christmas Eve at my home there was always only a very simple oat soup, barley soup, or even sausages with potato salad. I have learned it so that one thinks that the Holy Family has been dismissed everywhere and therefore Mary had to bear in a stable actually a shame for society. It is only celebrated on 1. Christmas Day then the birth of Jesus is celebrated with good food etc.
I’ll have a gray-pee soup to be considered personally. Sweat all sausages around lengths. It’s not exactly a family dinner for us.
on Christmas Eve you will stay in the closest family circle, no one will be charged, the visit will only come on the 25th or 26th December
You I just write you how it was handled at my home as long as my parents have still lived… just a statement there is this custom of rather poor food for Christmas Eve, what you have to make of it all.
As grandparents, we already have children and grandchildren.
There have never been sausages with potato salad, hahaha. Why?
have always made raclette or fondue
You’re not getting tired of it. 😄
In both cases, I have always been filled with bread and supplements before the meat was finally finished 😁
What is appropriate ultimately determines everyone for themselves. 😉
When I was young, we always had it with us. The reason was that we have farms. The stables must be done every day, including Christmas Eve. In addition, as a family, we wanted to go to the Christmas service. Santa Claus and gifts still decorate. In addition to preparing a complex food was not in time.
The festive food was the days after. Divine service was not, and also gifts were all already packed. There was more time.
After my siblings and I got older and the farm structures had changed, that was different. Then there was no more potato salad with Bockwurst. Then there was more raclette and always duck and route.
At least in Franconia this is very common. Since the big eating takes place on the holidays together with the relationship, you just need a little bite on the eve. sausages and potato salad are available. Besides, almost everyone likes it.
I already know that from both grandparents, my parents took over this. In my husband’s family, too.
Sometimes there’s something else. Last year it was a cheeseboard with my mother and sister, with whom we celebrated Christmas.
On the first Christmas day there is traditional wild, on the second a fish plate. In the evening, there is no lunch with us.
You can take my voice out, I didn’t want to vote. We have always had a dinner.
So we never ate this in my family. That would have been too boring and easy for Christmas Eve. But we have already taken care that food on Christmas Eve does not make too much effort and requires little preparation. Often there were smokers like salmon, aal and trout, with fresh hot baguette.
I think the main reason for simple food is simply that preparation of the concierge, the children, the guests, the decoration are already super much stress on Christmas Eve and you have more time with simple food for the concierge and celebration.
I don’t know why sausages and potato salad have brought it to tradition. There are many better alternatives.
If you have little time, there are better alternatives, right.
Absolutely, I have many good alternatives that are more festive and noble and still do little work.
There are several reasons.
1. In our family all work on the day quite normal (it is not a holiday!). Are you going to the kitchen for hours after a busy working day and do a roach or a greasy turkey?
Two. We visit a Christvesper in the late afternoon. After that, none of us can put themselves in the kitchen, but we are happy when the food is ready quickly.
3. The Advent season is traditionally the 2nd Lent in the year. Fasting time ends on 1. Christmas holiday or with the night divine service on Christmas Eve. Potato salad with sausages should underline this. Above all, this is supposed to remind you of the strict fasting day for Christmas Eve, before there are plenty of food on the Christmas holidays.
Your reasons shine to me, but my wife and I never had to work on Christmas Eve, 2. do not go to church and 3. do not fast for religious reasons.
But we always liked to cook together and covered the table festively and enjoyed a relaxed good meal with our loved ones.
You wanted to know why UNS had this court! And this has the three reasons mentioned. If that’s different from you, that’s okay, but then kissing doesn’t start such a survey…
Oh, please don’t misunderstand. I appreciated your answer. And I didn’t criticize them either.
From tradition! I don’t know that differently, my parents don’t know that differently, my grandma always did it and liked it…
“We have eaten something more finer to the feast.”
Since I like to cook, I almost always have “something finer” – all year round – to eat!
I don’t need any Christmas or other holidays to cook sour roasts, beef rolls (< there are by the way tomorrow with me!) or similar. I'll cook that if I'm hungry!
But decent (!) sausages (+high quality mustard) and self-made potato salad is absolutely delicious! I really like eating! 🙂
We’ve always been in southern Bavaria. The “fine food” was always on the 1st Christmas holiday.
In younger people, however, there are other things, such as Raclette.
When my mother was young, there were no sausages because the Savior was still fast. The sausages did not exist until after midnight.
When we were children, we also had this – now no longer.
For this there was half a turkey on the first celebration (the other half then there was always on New Year’s Day).
On the second holiday there was a pork roast with lumps and salad.
But on Christmas Eve we do not eat goose, duck, etc., but carving, chicken. This year there are meat cubes with puree and colourful vegetables.
Hello because it is cooked quickly and does not have to stand long in the kitchen
The sausage dinner has no long tradition. From 11.11. to Christmas midnight was fast. The fasting was only at midnight and in some areas the “Mettensau” was hunted and slaughtered for the 1st Christmas holiday. The “bad food” was pushed forward by half a day.
Interesting for me new info!
I know that too:
On Christmas Eve there was potato salad with sausage.
For Christmas then the feast.
Makes little effort and can be prepared well, making the evening itself more stress-free.
The tradition of the pastures and potato salad (or other, simple dishes) comes from the fact that the time in the holy evening is short. For many, it is still half a working day today, earlier it was a whole one. And then the devotion is to take place and one goes to Christmette in Christian families. There is no time for a fancy meal. The festivities are then available for Christmas.
For me, the grill is frets and no feast…
But everyone, in Japan is KFC feasting, whether that is much better I like to doubt.
I’ve never heard you eat it for Christmas.
on Christmas Eve (with mama papa, oma, opa and oma) there are usually cracks, red cabbage, sour roasts, potatoes, different salads, etc and then on the first Christmas day (with the family maternal side) mostly croquettes, again sour roast or rare other meats and still a wwe what I just don’t like
Because women in combination with work and Christmas preparations no longer have time to celebrate the Christmas Eve.
Especially since many still have to work on the day.
Ah, there is even a point to in the survey 😉
He doesn’t fit because not every woman is a mother.
It’s nice when it’s done. Unfortunately, this is not the case in many families.
And above all not every woman prepares the festivities. With us, my father prepared the festivities, because he was able to free the whole day as a self-employed Christmas Eve, while my mother, as a post-offererer, still had the last letters of consecration and parcels, and often drove directly from work to church.
Potato salad can be prepared on the day before and cold in the refrigerator. sausages only have to be thrown into the water and require zero effort and do not cause any mountains of dirty cookware.
In addition, almost everyone eats the dish, vegetarians can only feed themselves with the potato salad.
Saves time and effort and saturates everyone. In addition, it can also be paid at a tight cash register… not everyone can afford “Gans mit Blaukraut, Knödel und Soß”!
Actually, the Holy Evening would be a fasting day and it should be eaten only after the Christmette.
But don’t make a man anymore, but in many families it’s just a small thing that’s gotten up.
Though catholic conditioned, I no longer knew. Seems to be the original reason for this tradition.
I can’t answer you in Switzerland. For me, the menu would be too easy for a holiday.
To my knowledge a simple and simple food to keep the effort in the kitchen in a tolerable setting on the holy evening. Whether for mother or another family member.
It’ll be smashed on Christmas. And I can’t use a full stomach from the eve.
On Christmas Eve, by the way, there are only smoked salmon on fresh white bread.
We eat duck/goose with delicious supplements. But this is also expensive, not everyone can eat so much on Christmas Eve. That’s why some eat cheaper, but everyone can do as he wants
LG
This comes from the time when most people still had to work on the 24th, when one spends the evening with creams like shopping, baking, Christmas decoration and of course visiting a church does not stay time to cook yet great what
never for Christmas in summer from and to the evening bread.
In many it is tradition, the potato salad can also be prepared well 1-2 days before and then on Christmas Eve has just less work and can then relax.
who makes of these three days Fresstage, I’m always sincerely sorry
the simplest food is good enough as long as it was prepared with love, that can also be occupied bread
Absolutely. But I can also enjoy an elaborate meal without eating and eating bread.
I’ve never heard or eaten at Christmas. Are you high?
Not Christmas, but Holy Evening. It is quite common to eat something fast, easy.
Isn’t Christmas holy?
Here from Google: The reason for this was a second fasting period. She started in mid-November and only ended with the first Christmas holiday. The saturating potato was an ideal food during fasting. In addition, the money was scarce in many families and was saved for the feast on the first Christmas day.
Are you rather low? In any case, quite uninformed, as I see. After all, you can google successfully.
Sorry, I’m from an atheistic parent house. We are not evangelical or catholic and shit on such Christ’s fractures…
“Is also only a German customs (or in other countries too). In England, for example, there are gifts in the morning of the first Christmas day.”
The whole thing was robbed by the heathen anyway. Before, there was some turn of the sun. But the less religious things are, the better. So…
This is not a general knowledge! And life is not so long to waste it with such nonsense.
Yeah, they don’t have that on the Schrim anymore. The holy evening comes from the fact that the new day began with the dawn (for example, the Sabbath still goes from Friday night to Saturday night)
Is also only a German customs (or in other countries too). In England, for example, there are gifts in the morning of the first Christmas day.
Atheists can also have general knowledge.
That’s not an objection, I copied it from google. I don’t know that there are more than 24 December. There’s Christmas after my knowledge. There are gifts distributed, one meets with relatives and remembers the birth of Santa Claus.
No, Christmas is 25 and 26. December, the holy evening on December 24th.
But that with the second fasting time is a good idea, the adventurous fasting time I had no longer on the screen.