The Yule log is an ancient tradition, but its application is much more recent Gourmet.
The Yule log was a real wood logs, an exceptional size, which was burned during Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve.
Traditionally, the log was blessed by the grandfather and often sprinkled with oil or wine.
She's the one surrounded by gifts, before the introduction, recent in our skies, the Christmas tree. Finally, we treasured embers to protect themselves from lightning and ... disputes, including marital.
The Yule log was a role propriatoire sure. But urbanization has made this practice difficult to achieve in cities.
In 1879 a baker in the Rue de Buci, Antoine Charadot , had the brilliant idea to replace the firewood with a cake: the Yule log is rolled sponge cake, filled with butter cream, shaped into a log, often topped by a chimney. It is topped with butter cream shaped into the form of bark, leaves and balls of marzipan holly and meringue mushrooms often.
Recent developments occurred towards the multiplication of Yule logs, the different flavors (chocolate, brown, glossy fruit often exotic), but it is most often industrial production.
Christmas dinner in its most traditional is the result of ancient traditions, even if their cuisine is a recent translation as the Yule log. Turkey is stuffed or not stuffed or not, and that the Yule log is traditional or ice, merry Christmas!
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