Dinner Party Menu

Dinner Party Menu

First Meal: salted bread, milk or grape juice, and perhaps dried fruit, eggs or cheese

Second Meal: Fava beans, served in stew combined with artichokes, while they are still fresh in their pod

Third Meal: Helix aspersa, cooked and seasoned with fresh herbs

Fourth Meal: Dormince, meat bred in special enclosures before being fattened-up in clay pots called gliraria

Fifth Meal: Crispy Red Mullet with Winkles and Samphire and Shellfish Jus

Sixth Meal: Pigs were stuffed with sausages and fruit, roasted and then served on their feet

Seventh Meal: Stuffed dates, red pepper to taste, dates, pitted pecan halves mixed into a dough and baked to perfection.

Roman Dinner Party Invitation

YOU HAVE BEEN INVITED

TertiaSmallwood, Secunda Bibey, Balbina Cline, Claudia Wildman, Aggropeana Nuzum,

Sextust Terwilliger, Servius Stuart, Publius Poling, Pliny Hawkins, and Spartacus Scott.

You have been cordially invited to the most exclusive event of the year. You shall up at eleven 'clock and bring nothing, all preparations are being made. We will end the party around ten o'clock at night and send you home.

The seating will be as follows: myself at the head of the table, Tertia on my right hand side, beside her Secunda Bibey, Balbina Cline, Claudia Wildman, and Aggropeana Nuzum.

On the left hand side: Pliny Hawkins, Publius Poling, Spartacus Scott, Servius Stuart, and Sextust Terwilliger.

The theme for the party will be a toga party. You will dress fitting the theme and my house will be decorated to match the theme.

School in Germany

In Germany school, from the age of 6 through 14 school is mandatory, and in public state-run school's, it's free. The school system in Germany is a little different than it is in America. All children enter in the same program, but at the age of 10, they go to one of four types of schools. The track that they enter determines which type of school they can next enter, and finally, weather they will go to a university or enter a technical field. German secondary education includes five types of school. The Gymnasium is designed to prepare pupils for university education and finishes with the final examination Abitur, after grade 12 or 13. The Realschule has a broader range of emphasis for intermediate pupils and finishes with the final examination Mittlere Reife, after grade 10; the Hauptschule prepares pupils for vocational education and finishes with the final examination Hauptschulabschluss, after grade 9 or 10 and the Realschulabschluss after grade 10. There are two types of grade 10: one is the higher level called type 10b and the lower level is called type 10a; only the higher level type 10b can lead to the Realschule and this finishes with the final examination Mittlere Reife after grade 10b. Most subjects are taught in the pupils' own classroom and the pupils stay in their room while the teachers move from class to class. This is common throughout school up to year 11. Exceptions exist for PE, art, sciences, music and subjects which are taught in courses. Students usually sit two at a table, not desks,sometimes arranged in a semicircle or other shape.

German Christmas Dessert

Lebkuchen Cookies

For the Cookies:                                                                                      
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for kneading
1¼ teaspoons ground nutmeg
1¼ teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon ground allspice
1 egg                                                                                   
¾ cup light brown sugar ½ cup honey                                                   
½ cup molasses

For the Glaze:
1 cup confectioner’s sugar
2 Tablespoons water
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease two baking sheets or line them with parchment paper.

2. Sift together the flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and allspice. Set aside.

3. Beat the egg and sugar together on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the bowl.

4. Beat in the honey and molasses until thoroughly combined.

5. On low speed, stir in the flour mixture until just combined.

6. Turn the dough out from the bowl onto a well-floured surface. Knead the dough, adding more flour as kneaded, until a stiff dough is formed.

7. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill until firm, about 2 hours or overnight.

8. On a well-floured surface, roll out the dough into a 9×12-inch rectangle. Cut the dough into 18 3×2-inch rectangles. Bake for 10-12 minutes.

9. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack and let cool. Whisk together the confectioner’s sugar, water and lemon juice and brush or spread on top of the cookies.

10. Allow the glaze to firm, and then store the cookies in an airtight container at room temperature.



Facts
1.Santa Clause Doesn’t Come at Christmas
2.There’s no (gasp) snacking or junk food
3. he children hang a shoe or boot in the fireplace. During the night, St Nicholas visit house by house, if the children have been good the boots are filling with delicious candies but if they have not been good the boot are filling with twigs.
4. Germany started the Christmas tree tradition. 
5. The German Christmas begins the first Sunday of Advent.