Celebrate a Danish Christmas

Different cultures have different ways of celebrating. Here is a quick guide to celebrating Christmas in the Danish style.

Steps

 * 1) Watch a filmed Christmas calendar in front of the TV with some blankets and a handful of pepper-nut cookies (a Danish Christmas cookie made with spices).
 * 2) * The filmed calender is like a series just like any other the only different is that it is all about Christmas.
 * 3) Bake vanilla cookies, pepper-nuts, and brown cakes. These cakes are the most popular. The Danes gather on the 24th of December and stay together the whole day. They eat snacks and perhaps watch a Christmas movie. Eventually they will prepare the food, including oven roasted duck, brown potatoes (sugar covered potatoes), Danish sausage called medister pølse, red kale, sauce, and so forth.
 * 4) *The dessert is a rice pudding called ris a la mande. Everybody makes a game when eating this: one person will arrange the ris a la mande in a bowl for each person, then they put an almond in one of the bowls, then another person brings it back to the table and the one who finds the almond gets a present.
 * 5) Dance after finishing eating. Dance around the tree and sing some Danish Christmas songs, such as højt fra træets grønne top. When the Danes finish dancing, they open their presents and continue eating cookies and sweets.
 * 6) *In America, the presents are opened on the 25th but the Danes open them on the 24th and our chocolate calenders only reach the 24th.
 * 7) Done. You are now set for celebrating a traditional Christmas as if you were in Denmark.