OUR THREE“SWEET” WISE MEN

• On 5th January there is a Christmas parade; the main characters are the “magic kings”, who are Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar. They drive around the city on a float and shower the children and people with sweets and other presents.

• On the twelfth night kids leave cookies and milk on the balcony. When the children get up the next day they find the presents on the balcony.This text was written by: Bilel BoukiliOscar Gallego Martí AguilerMarvin Espinoza

Christmas Recipes

Yasmina Karkach Marta Molina Cristina Plans Jubitza Moran

Introduction• At Christmas people eat special

food in Spain.• For example the “torrons”, the

“polvorons”, marzipan, the twelfth-night cake…

Twelfth-night cake

ingredients :

• 400g of flour• 100 g of butter • 100 g of sugar • 1 tablespoon of yeast • 1 / 4 pint of milk • 3 eggs • 1 tablespoon orange blossom

water • The rind of lemon grated • Candied fruit ( pumpkin , cherry,

orange , lemon ) • Salt• 1 Bean• Surprise dolls • A king’s crown made of paper or

paperboard

• Steps• Dissolve yeast in warm milk 4 tbsp.

Add 100 gr. flour and mix until a soft dough ball. Cover with a tea towel and leave in a warm place for dough to grow to twice its volume.

• In another bowl, place the remaining flour (300 gr). Make a well in centre and add 3 eggs, sugar, remaining milk, orange blossom water and lemon rind. Knead until a thin crust. Add butter and continue kneading. Add the yeast mixture and knead until it is all very well blended. Sprinkle with flour and let stand with the tea towel in a warm place for 2 hours minimum.

• After 2 hours, knead again and put on kitchen paper on a baking tray. Shape of thread. Enter wrapped bean, and the surprises also involved.

• Garnish with candied fruit strips and paint with a brush beaten egg. Sprinkle with sugar.

• Bake in preheated oven at 160 degrees and cook for 15-20 minutes.

Hidden in the cake there is a miniature king figure or a crown and whoever is lucky enough to find it is treated like a king for the rest of the day. However another prize (usually a bean) is also hidden in the cake and the unlucky one has to pay for the cake the following year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS