1. Christmas in our country
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2. When we celebrate?
Christmas is considered the most important holiday for non-Christians who connect him to finish the year as spending time St. family. Christmas is celebrated on 24, 25 and 26 December, but preceded them in the Christian concept of a four-week period called Advent. All three days are an official national holiday.

3. How to celebrate?
24th December is a tradition that the whole family meets at the gala dinner. The actual dinner is traditionally consisted of fish soup, carp with potato salad and during its consumption, to comply with certain habits: that could be done to prepare the dish more for an unexpected visit, or put under your plate or coin scales. From christmas boards are usually only allowed to move away housekeeper. After dinner, it is customary to unwrap Christmas gifts to children in the Czech Republic brings Jesus. Christmas Eve traditionally culminates in a midnight mass, which are sung carols and church will start the celebration of the birth of Christ.

4. Christmas Cookies
Christmas cookies and baking is one of popular Christmas traditions, which is in a large part of Czech households observed. Typical are the shortbread cookies, which can be also flavored with grated coconut or cocoa. Typical smell is vanilla, cinnamon spice.

5. Recipe for Christmas Cookies
Ingredients: 210g flour 2 pieces of yolk 1 packet of vanilla sugar
70g powdered sugar
140g butter
lemon juice

6. Procedure: The war sieved flour, add vanilla and icing sugar, oil, egg yolks, lemon juice and prepare a soft dough. The dough shaped bun wrap in foil and leave it overnight to ripen.
Then cut out shapes from dough and bake.
You baked cookies smear jam.

7. Cut dough, which is baked.

8. Result: