What is considered a traditional Christmas dinner?

Question

What type of meal is usually prepared?
What is/are staves?

Answer 1

OK, so you're trying to make us all throw up at the very thoughts of it all just after it's over and done with.
Ask this question just before NEXT Christmas and you might gets some sensible replies.
A stave is five horizontal lines upon which musical notation is written.

Answer 2

in the UK roast turkey with all the trimmings and vegetables like sprouts, carrots, roast potatoes etc and gravy. For afterwards Christmas Pudding. Yummy! A stave is a piece of wood of a cask or barrel.

Answer 3

In the United States, Christmas dinner is less standardized than the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. The U.S. Christmas dinner is usually baked ham (with cloves, pineapple ring and cherry on top) or roast turkey (deep fried turkey in the south). Some ppl eat Cornish game hens, beef steak or roast beef instead. I have also heard of ppl in the midwest having vennison for Christmas dinner. Side dishes vary from family to family: macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, roasted potatoes, green beans with onions and mushrooms, peas and carrots, corn bread, squash, casseroles, etc. Dessert is traditionally fruitcake, mincepie and Christmas cookies. Again, tastes vary and some ppl will have pumpkin pie, apple pie, layer cake, ice cream (e.g. peppermint stick), etc. Egg nog with or without rum is also served. After dinner chocolates are often served with after dinner coffee or brandy.

Answer 4

Staves could be staff, such as servants, or ways of dividing up a stage performance, as in a Christmas Carol (Dickens).
Tradtional meal usually includes pudding, Christmas (fruit and nut) cake, vege of choice, and can also be beef joint, Turkey (contemporary, imported from USA in 1600's), or goose. Vegetarians eat nut loaf, largely, instead of meat, but I have never tried it.
--Charles, That Cheeky Lad

Answer 5

The traditional Christmas dinner consists of
Soup as a starter followed by Roast Turkey, roast potato, mash potato, carrots, Brussels sprouts, sausage wrapped in bacon, stuffing, cranberry sauce,bread sauce followed by Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

Answer 6

Scottish Christmas Dinner
Chicken Liver pate
Carrot and Lentil soup
Roast Turkey Crown with Roast potatoes, parsnips, brussel sprouts, carrot, stuffing and bacon rolls.
Chocolate Gateaux with pouring cream or christmas pud and brandy sauce
with lots of wine and a cracker
Happy New Year

Answer 7

Depends on the culture.

Most Americans have the same menu as Thanksgiving. Some serve prime rib or ham instead of turkey and keep the sides the same.

Italians celebrate with a seafood menu. Hispanics traditionally serve tamales.

Answer 8

Usually a traditional thing to have on Christmas for dinner is turkey or ham. Some have lamb or goose also.

Answer 9

this was the menue for my Christmas dinner cooked by my partner and her daughter. you may notice it is written in French, that is because we live there
Menue
Jour du Noël 25th. Décembre 2006

Crevette Rose avec Saumon Fumé
Sancerre

Oie du rôti avec Orange
Pomme de Terre du rôti
Brussel Pousse avec Châtaignes
Chou Rouge
Beurrenoix Gourde avec Lardons et Châtaignes
Saucisses ont Enveloppé dans Bacon
Sauce du Pain
Panais du rôti
Petites Carottes
Château Margaux 2003
Château Tour deMalengin 1999

Pudding du Noël avec Crème de la Liqueur

Fromage Aborde et Fruit
Spécial Reserve le Port Warre’s 1983 et Madera
Café et Bon-Bons

Answer 10

The traditional English christmas dinner is goose with all the trimmings followed by plum pudding,or roast pork with trimmings,followed with same desert.