Where do today’s Christmas traditions come from? Christmas pudding was originally a soup. Mince pies were made from livestock and not fruit. Looking at the history of some our Christmas rituals reveals some interesting facts about a modern Christmas Day.Yule Logs and Fairy LightsMany families enjoy a chocolate cake at Christmas time, often made in the shape of a log, and known as a Yule Log. (In Devon and Somerset in England, the Yule log was also known as a Great Ashen Faggot). Originally a Yule log was a tree branch, usually oak for its properties of slow burning with great heat.When the log fire expired, a piece of the log was kept for luck and as kindling to start the next Yule fire. Red candles are often placed along the a Yule cake to represent flames. The candles moved to the Christmas tree, but have now been surpassed by fairy lights.Christmas StarsIt is a common practice to place a large star at the top of a Christmas Tree. Some believe it represents the light of the sun, however a more common interpretation is that it is a symbolic representation of the nativity star that guided the three wise […]

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