The date of Thanksgiving Day in the United States is variable: Americans celebrate this holiday every fourth Thursday of November. By the way, in Canada, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October. It is the “thank you celebration” that opens the festive season, which includes Christmas and lasts right up to the New Year.
Ukrainians are in solidarity with their American friends on this issue, so tomorrow in Ukraine everyone will also be able to “thank you” and taste turkey.
History of Thanksgiving Day
The First Thanksgiving in Plymouth (1621) Jennie A. Brownscombe
The holiday dates back to the very first settlers from England who arrived on the shores of America in 1620. They landed in what is now Massachusetts and founded the Plymouth Colony.
More than half of the hundred or so who arrived were unable to survive the harsh winter and died from cold, hunger and disease. The survivors founded a colony and in the spring, with the help of local Indians who taught them what crops and how to grow on the rocky soil, they began cultivating the land. A rich harvest was the reward for their efforts.
The first governor of the colonists, W. Bradford, proposed a day of giving thanks to the Lord. After gaining independence and the emergence of a unified US state, the country's first president, George Washington, proposed celebrating Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday annually on November 26th. In 1941, the US Congress passed a bill requiring Thanksgiving to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
Whom do Americans thank?
Americans traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving with a large circle of family and friends around a richly laid table. Everyone says words of thanks for all the good things that have happened in his life. This could be gratitude:
To the Almighty - for mercy,
- to the Indians who helped the first settlers survive,
- the outgoing year - for the harvest,
- relatives and friends - for their support and help,
- just personal gratitude to each person for all the good things that happened to him this year.
Thanksgiving Traditions
On the eve of Thanksgiving, it is customary to engage in charity work to feed those in need.
On the eve of Thanksgiving, the President of the United States holds a ceremony to pardon the turkey. He pardons one of the two birds pre-selected by the Americans on the White House website, and it goes to the farm. The second (vice turkey) is prepared and served at the White House holiday dinner.
Last year, then-President Barack Obama pardoned both birds, which will now go to Virginia Tech, where they will live out their lives under the care of students.
New York Thanksgiving Day Parade
On this day in New York there is a grand parade, the main attraction of which is huge inflatable toys (heroes of fairy tales, cartoons and television shows), which are carried from Central Park to the entrance to the Macy’s department store (the organizer of the celebration) - opposite Herald Square. Everyone can watch the parade live on TV.
Why turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie should be on the holiday table
It is believed that the holiday table must include roast turkey with cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes (yams), pumpkin pie and a variety of corn dishes. Earlier, Vesti learned for its readers the top 3 recipes for the main Thanksgiving dishes.
There is a legend about turkey. Queen Elizabeth was eating roast goose when she was told the news that the enemy Spanish Armada had sunk on its way to England. To celebrate, the queen ordered another goose, and since then goose has become a favorite festive dish English.
But in the colonies, in the United States, there were simply no geese, so the colonists replaced it with turkey at their first holiday dinner. Since then, turkey has become a symbol of the holiday. People even call this holiday Turkey Day.
Cranberry sauce was also present at the first holiday dinner, as the Indians have long used cranberries for healing and dyeing fabrics. The first settlers used cranberries as a preventive measure, so as not to catch any disease, and it tasted best when eaten with game. This is how cranberry sauce found its way onto holiday tables.
As for pumpkin pie, it's a symbol autumn harvest. For many peoples, pumpkin is considered a symbol of fertility, hearth and prosperity. Although there is an opinion that the modern pie is an adapted version of the dessert at the first dinner. After all, the Pilgrim Fathers simply ate pumpkin with honey and syrup, since they did not have flour to bake a pie.
The day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday, which marks the start of pre-Christmas sales in stores and online.
There was a smell of winter in the air. This means that very soon we will begin preparing for the New Year and Christmas. But when does the moment come that allows you to choose without remorse? christmas tree, eat tangerines and wait New Year's miracle? In the United States, there is a date after which preparations for the holiday season are considered officially open. This Thanksgiving Day When gathered at the festive table, it is customary to express your gratitude. But to whom and for what - let's figure it out.
History of Thanksgiving
As we remember from history lessons, the first settlers from England arrived on the shores of America in 1620. They landed on the continent in November and founded a colony. But the first winter was harsh for the new residents, many of them died. The next year, local Indians taught these white people how to properly grow crops on the new land. When the time came to harvest, the first colonist governor proposed a day of giving thanks to the Lord. Of course, the Indians were also invited to this holiday, who helped the settlers so much. This day became the first Thanksgiving Day celebration.
After gaining independence from England, the country's first president George Washington proposed to celebrate Thanksgiving every year on November 26th. Over time, this holiday was assigned its own day - the last Thursday of November. The US Congress even passed a bill on this topic in 1941. And so over time, Thanksgiving became one of the biggest holidays in the United States. This year it falls on November 26.
Useful words in English
Colonist - colonist, settler
American Indian - American Indian
Thanksgiving Day
Harvest - harvest, harvest
Feast - feast, holiday
Meal – eating, eating
Thursday - Thursday
Tradition - tradition
To celebrate – celebrate
Thanksgiving Day Celebration
These days, Thanksgiving Day is one of the three most important holidays in the United States (the other two being Christmas and Independence Day, which is celebrated on July 4th). Therefore, it is not at all surprising that it is celebrated on a special scale. The whole country is dying out: shops and all government offices are closed for this holiday. Many Americans get the day off the day after the holiday.
Religious people must attend church. The less religious stay home, watch the parade and cook special American food. There must be turkey on the table. This is the main dish of Thanksgiving. By the way, turkey is not served just like that, but with cranberry sauce. Each family often has its own secret recipe for this sauce. According to American tradition, you can find mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, and green beans on the table.
On Thanksgiving Day, the average American eats about 4000 calories. As we remember, 2000 calories is more than enough for a person per day. So it’s not surprising that after eating so much, people find it difficult to move and seem to fall into a kind of coma due to overeating. Americans call this condition “food coma”. By the way, quite a large number of Thanksgiving jokes are devoted to this topic.
All day long, Americans are remembering what they are grateful for this year. So don’t be surprised if on the pages of your foreign friends on social networks you find long lists, talking about who and what they are grateful for.
Useful words in English
Sauce - sauce
Cranberry sauce - cranberry sauce
Stuffing – turkey stuffing
Turkey - turkey
Gravy - gravy
Dinner - dinner
Pumpkin pie - pumpkin pie
Leftovers - leftover food
To carve - cut the turkey
Thanksgiving Traditions
Like any holiday, Thanksgiving Day has its own traditions that are unique to it.
Useful words
Soup kitchen - free canteen
Parade - parade
To worship - bow, honor
Charity - charity
To give thanks
Gobble is the sound a turkey makes; gobble
Thanksgiving Turkey
Let's talk to you about the main character festive table. It is believed that the average Thanksgiving turkey weighs 8-9 kilograms for the holiday. That's why small families sometimes only buy turkey breast. Of course, it can be tricky to bake such a large bird in the oven. So sometimes you need help when preparing such American food.
That's why it works on holidays telephone hotline, where they will help you not to burn your idea. The line is believed to have been in operation for about 30 years. On the other end of the line there are a little more than 50 people who will advise what to do in a critical “turkey” situation. This emergency line operates in November and December. According to the site, during these months they answer more than 100,000 questions about the preparation of the main dish. Your question can be answered in both Spanish and English. Moreover, a couple of representatives of the stronger sex also work on the support line. They probably think that only a man can explain to another man how to properly roast a turkey. 
Vegetarians also have their own turkey, although it consists of tofu. And that's what it's called Tofurky(Tofu+turkey). Of course, it doesn't look like a real bird. Tofurky can take different types from sausages to minced meat. But Thanksgiving usually involves buying something that looks a lot like pieces of stuffed meatloaf. Only this meatloaf has no meat in it. There are tons of recipes on the Internet and in cooking magazines for various dishes that vegetarians can try to replace the good old turkey.
Useful words
Hotline – telephone hotline
Recipe - recipe
Frozen turkey - frozen turkey
To defrost - defrost
To roast - bake
Giblets - offal
Pop-up thermometer is a small thermometer that is stuck into a turkey. A small part of this thermometer will pop up when the meat inside the turkey reaches the desired temperature.
Pop-up thermometer
Unfortunately, we are only familiar with this holiday thanks to television shows and films. Let's see how we get into the spirit of Thanksgiving and see how our people celebrate this day. good friends from various TV series.
TV series “Modern family”
TV series “Friends”
TV series “How I met your mother”
Shutikova Anna
If you put together a table of ranks for American holidays, Christmas would be in first place, and Thanksgiving in second. This is America's favorite holiday and has great significance. Thanksgiving Day in America is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. The official name of the holiday is “ Thanksgiving Day“. However, Americans themselves often lovingly or ironically call it “ Turkey day “.
Everyone probably understands where the second name comes from - from American films we learned that on this day, citizens of the United States traditionally treat themselves to roast turkey meat. How did the official name of the holiday come about – ““? Who is grateful to whom and for what? What is the history of this holiday?
Thanksgiving Day in America: the history of the holiday
The first Thanksgiving Day was organized back in 1621. It was organized by English colonists from the Plymouth Colony. The fact is that the first pilgrim settlers faced many difficulties in the new territory. People were poorly equipped, did not know the peculiarities of local natural conditions and could not obtain food for themselves in sufficient quantities. As a result, many of the colonists (according to some sources, more than half of the colony) died in the first winter. The main reason was malnutrition and, as a consequence, the occurrence various diseases. The cold also played a role. The Indians helped the white colonists survive by teaching the strangers how to sow corn, beans, pumpkins, etc. From the Indians the colonists learned to make maple syrup.
The colonists prepared thoroughly for the second winter, but the winter promised to be difficult. Just before it started, a celebration was organized. According to some historical sources, the holiday was held in honor of a good harvest. People were happy that they were able to prepare much better for the second winter, and therefore there would be no more death from hunger. They regarded this as the help of the Almighty and decided to thank him. And at the same time, his first assistants - the Indians. The colonists invited the leader to the holiday Indian tribe, living next door, and several dozen of his fellow tribesmen. The Indians did not come empty-handed, but with turkeys roasted on the fire.
According to another version, the supplies were still not enough, and as winter approached, the spirit of the colonists began to noticeably decline. To cheer them up, the governor decided to organize a holiday. For the holiday, the colonists, along with the Indians, shot and roasted four turkeys. At the festival, the pilgrims said words of gratitude to their Indian friends and to God. That is, the holiday was a kind of religious ritual.
Since then, it has been held annually before the onset of winter, and traditionally turkeys were cooked on this day. Gradually it became a national holiday in the United States, and in 1863 the president of the country recognized it official holiday and determined the day for it to be held - the last Thursday of November. Well, roast turkey has become the main symbol of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Thanksgiving Day: Traditions
Thanksgiving: festive table. The turkey must be cooked. In addition to turkey, traditional Thanksgiving foods include potatoes, cranberry sauce, carrot pie or pumpkin pie. You can drink it with anything, but red wine is usually served. On this day, it’s not a sin to go a little overboard with the latter, which is what many Americans do.
Thanksgiving Day in America can be imagined without anything, but not without turkey. By the way, in modern America, not everyone buys and cooks their own turkey. Many Americans are given frozen turkeys by generous employers. Well, those who are unlucky with an employer go to the store to buy a turkey.
Some people think ahead and pre-order a fresh turkey from the farm. Presenters healthy image lives order organic turkeys from farms where no hormonal feed is used. Greedy people buy only turkey fillet (breast), lazy people order ready-made turkey from a restaurant. Those who like to hunt hunt turkeys on their own, although this is poaching. In a word, who knows what. But in any case, almost every American will definitely try turkey on Thanksgiving Day. This raises the patriotic spirit of Americans, because they feel incredible unity: everyone eats turkey and says “God Bless America!”
Thanksgiving is a family holiday. Traditionally, it is customary to gather at the parents' table. Even if parents live a thousand kilometers away, Americans buy a plane ticket and go to visit the elderly. This is how it is accepted, and indeed among Americans Mom always cooks the best turkey . Half the country is on the road before Thanksgiving, but it's worth it! An American mother will try and carefully prepare for the reception of children, nephews, grandchildren and friends of children who do not have the opportunity to dine with their own parents. The first two or three days after the holiday, it is customary to talk with colleagues, friends and neighbors about how delicious mom’s turkey was. It is also customary to sincerely sympathize with someone who, for whatever reason, did not get a turkey.
Directly on Thanksgiving Day they go to church, and before the meal they say a prayer of thanksgiving for the food. The oldest member of the family, usually a man, cuts the turkey. The first pieces are given to children, then according to seniority. This is not just a tradition that can be ignored - it is an important ritual.
Thanksgiving Day: Celebration Traditions. Eat interesting tradition: The president of the country chooses turkey for dinner on Thanksgiving Day. At a special ceremony, the President and his wife (or children) are shown two beautiful, specially fed birds - still alive. The President decides which of them will be sacrificed and which will be pardoned and returned to the farm to live as long as possible and die their own death. This action is even broadcast on TV.
And on this day they show good old and new films related to Thanksgiving. There are also colorful street processions and parades, the participants of which wear costumes - cartoon and movie characters or 17th century colonists and Indians. But the rest of the holiday is like a holiday - with festivities, fun, drinking and dancing.
Charity and Thanksgiving. On the eve of this holiday, charity flourishes, as Americans believe that every citizen of their country should receive their portion of turkey. The newspapers publish offers for donations, which will be used to prepare dinner for the homeless and poor. There are even tables for donations in the subway - you can put not only money on them, but also food. All this is distributed to the poor on Thanksgiving Day, and the money is used to buy dinners for the homeless.
Thanksgiving: How to Cook Turkey
Turkey can be baked in many different ways, but it is usually made with stuffing, such as apples or oranges. Be sure to prepare the gravy sauce. Here is one of the original recipes for making apple turkey for Thanksgiving.
Apple turkey: recipe
Ingredients:
- turkey
- bacon - approximately 300-400 g
- chopped onions – 4 cups
- Chopped celery stalks – 3 cups
- Chopped dried (or fresh) apples – 1 cup
- Ground nuts (eg walnuts) – 6 cups
- breadcrumbs – 0.5 kg
- chicken broth – 4 cups
- butter – 0.5 cup
- apple jelly – 1 glass
- apple juice – 1 glass
- white balsamic vinegar - approximately 40 ml
- honey - a quarter cup
- flour – 2-4 tablespoons
- salt - 0.5 teaspoon for glaze, plus to taste for turkey and gravy
- cumin and ground sage – 1-1.5 teaspoons each
Preparing the filling:
Cut the bacon into strips and heat it in the oven in a bowl. The bacon should be crispy but not burnt. The fat will render out of the bacon. Remove the crispy bacon and set it aside. The fat should also be poured into a cup, leaving only a couple of spoons in the bowl. Place onion and celery in a bowl and simmer a little in the oven until golden brown. Remove the bowl, return the crispy bacon strips to it, add spices (cumin and sage to taste), chopped apples, and nuts. Now you need to take half the warm chicken broth (2 cups), dissolve the oil in it and pour it into the bowl. Stir everything. Then you need to add breadcrumbs little by little and knead until you get a homogeneous, fairly viscous mass. The filling is ready.
There will be quite a lot of it. Part of the stuffing (about 6-7 cups) should be set aside for stuffing the turkey, and the rest should be baked in the oven in the same pan. You need to bake on low heat, covered with foil, for about 30 minutes. Then without foil for another 10-15 minutes. This bowl of baked stuffing is then placed directly on the table next to the roasted turkey. The stuffing is delicious and is added straight to the plate with the turkey.
To prepare the turkey glaze:
In one bowl you need to stir apple jelly, juice, honey, vinegar and salt. You can prepare the glaze in the oven or on the stove. It is important that the walls of the dishes are thick. The contents are first brought to a boil, then evaporated over low heat with periodic (or better yet, constant) stirring for about 15 minutes. A quarter cup of the resulting glaze is separated for subsequent preparation of gravy. The rest is also put aside for now.
Cooking turkey:
Rinse the carcass, remove the neck and stomach. Then it must be dried with paper or cloth towels both outside and inside (so that the meat remains juicy). Part of the stuffing is filled into the empty neck, the rest of the stuffing is stuffed inside the turkey. Then the turkey is coated vegetable oil with salt to taste and place on the grill breast side up. The neck hole, ends of the wings and diapers are wrapped in foil to prevent burning. The breast and sides of the turkey are coated with the prepared glaze, the bird is covered with foil and goes into the oven for about 2 hours.
After 2 hours, remove the turkey, remove the foil from the breast and thighs, and glaze the turkey again. Then cover it again with foil and bake until fully cooked. Cooking time varies depending on the weight of the bird. On average, it cooks for 3-4 hours over low heat. To determine readiness, you need to pierce the bird in several places with a toothpick - if a clear liquid comes out, then the turkey is ready.
Preparing turkey gravy:
The fat that remains from the bacon must be ground with flour until smooth. Then pour in the remaining chicken broth and the reserved part of the glaze, bring to a boil and turn off - the gravy is ready. Salt is added to taste. If the gravy is too thick, add a little more broth. If it turns out a little liquid, you need to dilute 3 tablespoons of flour in broth or water and pour a little at a time into the boiling gravy, monitoring the degree of thickening. And so on until the desired consistency is obtained.
Serving:
The turkey is laid out on a flat plate, breast side up. The edges are decorated with fresh herbs. A bowl with separately baked filling and a gravy boat with gravy are placed next to it. Apple Thanksgiving turkey is served with mashed potatoes.
On November 27, the day before Thanksgiving, the United States will hold a ceremony to pardon the turkey. According to the tradition, which was introduced by US President Harry Truman in 1947, at least one turkey must avoid the sad fate of being eaten. In the form of a half-joking, half-serious recognition of the role of the turkey, as well as recognition of the role of mercy, on the eve of the holiday, the American president issues a pardon to a specific bird, which is shown with him on television on the White House lawn. The head of the United States reads the decree and carefully strokes the alarmed bird. Later she is sent to the zoo, where she lives until old age.
Turkey Gratitude Story
It was from America that turkey was brought to Europe in the 15th century. Hence the name of the bird: turkey - Indian chicken. Both Indians and Europeans happily bred this once wild bird. The reason turkey is so popular among farmers is that it grows well.
There are cases when it was possible to grow specimens weighing as much as a ten-year-old child.
According to legend, the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1620 in America by English colonists who came to Plymouth. The governor decided to lift the spirits of the pioneers, who had just survived a harsh year in a new place. Of the hundred pilgrims, only half survived. Nothing good lay ahead for them either, so happy holiday with a lot of food it came in handy.
Indians from the neighboring Wampanoag tribe were invited to the first Thanksgiving. It was they who helped the English pilgrims survive cold winter on a new land. However, the pilgrims thanked not them, but the Almighty. The Indians acted only as guests. The British were not too grateful to the aborigines after that: a few years later they cut off the head of the leader of this tribe.
It is believed that turkey was the only game in the entire area that the early settlers were able to hunt in America. This bird was placed on the festive table. However, historians do not agree with this statement. The diaries of the governor who first organized this holiday contain records of what the pilgrims ate. The only meat listed there is venison. And turkey became popular in the 19th century.
From the parade to the store
The Thanksgiving given by the pilgrims lasted four whole days. Apparently, the residents were too hungry during the difficult winter. Today's Americans are more moderate in their entertainment. Modern Thanksgiving lasts one day (excluding the following weekend). On the last Thursday of every November, you need to take part in the traditional parade, roast a turkey and eat it at a richly decorated table with your family.
By the way, the last Thursday of November for celebrating Thanksgiving Day was not immediately established. After gaining independence and the emergence of a unified US state, George Washington proposed celebrating Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday on November 26th. After the end of the Civil War in 1864, Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving Day to be the last Thursday of November each year. In 1939, Theodore Roosevelt changed this date to the second to last Thursday in November. Roosevelt's decision was not legislative in nature and caused a split among the states: 23 states celebrated Thanksgiving on the penultimate Thursday, and 22 on the last. Other states (for example, Texas) celebrated the holiday twice. Two years later, in 1941, Theodore Roosevelt reversed his decision and approved the final date for the holiday - the last Thursday in November followed by a non-working Friday.
On Thanksgiving Day itself, costume parades are held in cities across the United States. This tradition, as often happens, was born thanks to the residents of New York, who in 1924 came out in procession to the western edge of Central Park. The most popular outfits worn by participants in festive processions are Indian and Pilgrim costumes.
The Christmas season begins with Thanksgiving Day, and red flags with the words SALE appear in all stores. By the way, when President Theodore Roosevelt finally approved the transfer of the holiday to the last Thursday of November, he rightly believed that four days of general shopping would have a beneficial effect on the country's economy.
Thanksgiving Menu
No American will be left without turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Charity collections are held especially for those who are not able to purchase this inexpensive bird themselves. Many Americans cook turkey at home so they can take it to churches and soup kitchens. Some employers simply give turkeys to their employees.
Turkey is the main, but not the only dish of the holiday table. It is always served with potatoes, pumpkin pie and cranberry jelly.
There are also vegetarian feasts. In such cases, turkey is replaced with everything possible, for example, tofu and bread made from wheat protein - seitan.
Turkey Vermont
You will need: turkey, 200 g butter, 4 tablespoons flour, lemon, thyme, rosemary, lemon, apple, onion, sage, parsley, bay leaf. Rub the carcass with seasonings inside and out. Stuff it from the neck side with a mixture of butter, chopped lemon, onion, apple and herbs.
Secure with a knitting needle and trim the turkey legs. Rub the bird with a mixture of 85 g of butter and flour and bake in the oven, basting with juice every 15 minutes.
Turkey with prunes
Ingredients: 5.5 kg turkey carcass, 500 g prunes, 4 cups chopped apples, 1 cup breadcrumbs, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, sugar, salt, cinnamon. Season the turkey carcass with cinnamon, salt and pepper. Pour water over the prunes and cook for 10 minutes. Drain the water, add apples, breadcrumbs, lemon juice, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Stir and stuff the turkey with this mixture. Sew up the hole. Cook in the oven over medium heat for 3-4 hours.
Turkey with lingonberry sauce
Ingredients: 1 kg turkey, 300 g lingonberries, 1 orange, 40 g honey, salt. Squeeze the juice from the orange, blend in a blender along with honey and lingonberries.
Add a little zest. Pour half the sauce into the mold, place the turkey pieces in there, and brush the remaining sauce on top. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Cranberry sauce for turkey
You will need: 2 oranges, 225 g sugar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 2.5 cm ginger root, 350 g cranberries, half a tablespoon white pepper. Cut the orange zest into thin strips and squeeze the juice out of the fruit. Mix the sugar and lemon juice, bring to a boil until the syrup begins to thicken, then remove from the heat and add the remaining ingredients. Reheat until the cranberries begin to pop. Serve cold.
Mashed potatoes
Traditional Thanksgiving turkey is served with mashed potatoes. Traditional puree is prepared as follows: boil a kilogram of potatoes in salted water, drain the water, add 200 ml of milk and 50 g of butter and beat. You can add grated cheese and a couple of spoons of grainy mustard or a couple of chopped peeled apples with a tablespoon of thyme to the dish.
Glazed vegetables
Ingredients: 2 kg potatoes or other vegetables (eg carrots, turnips), 100 g butter, 3 tablespoons maple syrup, teaspoon chopped parsley. Cut the vegetables into 1 cm cubes, boil in boiling salted water, but not completely. Rinse and place in a hot pan with butter, maple syrup and two tablespoons of water. After 10 min. the dish should be ready and the pan should be dry. Stir in parsley.
Succotash
Ingredients: 500 g canned corn, 100 g bacon, onion, 800 g canned white beans, 150 ml heavy cream, 2 tablespoons chopped chives. Finely chop the bacon. Fry in a frying pan for about five minutes, add the onion and fry for another 5 minutes. Then put the beans, add 600 ml of water and bring to a boil. After 10 min. add corn, simmer. Season with chives and spices to taste.
Corn bread
Combine 275 g of corn flour, 75 g of wheat flour, 25 g of sugar, 1.5 tablespoons of baking powder, half a tablespoon of soda and a tablespoon of salt. Mix 225 ml of kefir, 115 ml of milk, 2 eggs and 50 g of melted butter, pour into the dry ingredients, stir, but do not beat. Add 150 g of canned corn and two chopped chili peppers. Pour the dough into the mold, bake for 20-25 minutes. at a temperature of 200 degrees.
pumpkin pie
Combine 225 g flour, 0.5 tablespoon salt and 25 g sugar, add 115 g butter and chop until the mixture begins to crumble. Beat in the yolk and beat until smooth. You can add a little ice water. Wrap the dough in film and cool. Bake 700 g of pumpkin until tender, then grind, add 115 ml of cream, 100 g of sugar, cinnamon, ginger, salt and allspice. Place the dough in the pan, spread the filling on top and bake.
Cranberry jelly
Pour 300 g of cranberries with a glass of water and add 200 g of sugar. Bring the berries to a boil and cook until pureed. Soak 10 g of gelatin in cold water. Mix it with cranberries, rub the mixture through a sieve, pour into a mold and cool. Serve with yogurt whipped with vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Thanksgiving Day - public holiday in the USA and Canada, celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the USA. This holiday has its roots in the depths of American history, to the very first settlers from England who arrived on the shores of America in 1620 on the now famous Mayflower ship. They landed after a difficult voyage over a stormy ocean in what is now Massachusetts on a frosty November day and founded the Plymouth Colony.
More than half of the hundred or so who arrived were unable to survive the harsh winter and died from cold, hunger and disease. The survivors founded a colony and in the spring, with the help of local Indians who taught them what crops and how to grow on this inhospitable rocky soil, they began cultivating the land. An unexpectedly rich harvest was the reward for their efforts. The first governor of the colonists, W. Bradford, proposed a day of giving thanks to the Lord. To the holiday in the fall of 1621, the Pilgrim Fathers invited the leader and 90 other Indians of the tribe that helped them survive in unfamiliar conditions. This meal, shared with the Indians, became the first Thanksgiving celebration. Subsequently, the colonists celebrated the good harvest with occasional Thanksgiving feasts.
After gaining independence and the emergence of a unified state of the United States, the country's first president, George Washington, proposed celebrating Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday annually on November 26. In 1864, at the end of the Civil War, A. Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November each year as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939, F.D. Roosevelt replaced this date with the second to last Thursday in November, but his declaration was not binding. This caused a split among the states: 23 states celebrated Thanksgiving on the second to last Thursday, and 22 on the last. Other states (for example, Texas) declared both days to be holidays. In 1941, the US Congress passed a bill requiring Thanksgiving to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. On December 26, 1941, Roosevelt signed the bill, thereby establishing the scheme that continues to this day.
Thanksgiving is full of traditions. Several generations of one family gather at the elders' house for a festive dinner. Everyone says words of gratitude for all the good things that have happened in his life. On this day, modern Americans eat the same thing that their ancestors ate back in 1621 at the first Thanksgiving dinner. Many dishes have become not only a tradition, but also a kind of symbol of the holiday: stuffed turkey with cranberry jam and a large sweet pie with pumpkin filling. Bright young pumpkins, cobs of “Indian” corn, apples, oranges, chestnuts, nuts, dry leaves and bunches of grapes, hanging from the dish as if from a cornucopia, not only serve as a traditional table decoration, but also personify the abundance of autumn gifts of nature. Bouquets of golden, orange and red-brown chrysanthemums, complemented by branches with berries, complete the feeling of abundance and generosity of nature, a real celebration of a rich harvest.
A grand parade is taking place in New York, organized by the world's largest department store, Macy's, since 1927. Its main attraction is huge inflatable toys (characters of cartoons, fairy tales and television shows), which are carried from Central Park to the entrance to department store (between Seventh Avenue and Broadway). On the eve of the parade, a toy inflation ceremony takes place. In the evening, fireworks display over the East River. All this is broadcast live on television.
Quite a long time ago, probably 6 years ago, I came up with such a trick.
Organize a turkey pardon in our city on Thanksgiving Day.
In general, the US President pardons a turkey on the White House lawn. They bring him 2 turkeys. He chooses the largest one and sends it back to the farm (i.e., makes a pardon), and the second one goes to the traditional holiday dinner at the White House.
Having pardoned a turkey, he thereby gives it life, it bears offspring, and accordingly, turkeys will not cease to be found, and there will always be plenty of them. This is the approximate meaning of this act.
I called one of our television companies, fortunately there are many journalists I know in all television companies.
And he invited them to organize the whole thing, film it and show it.
I say:
- You will have an exclusive story, which was not seen in all of Russia, for sure.
- The US Consul General - it will probably be pleasant to fulfill the role of US President in the distant Urals
- Well, an extra piece of information wouldn’t hurt me, of course.
No sooner said than done.
We agreed with the Consulate and discussed everything. I brought a turkey, and take it from me and break out and let’s run around the territory of Gen. Consulates. I caught it, fell into the snow, but in the end I caught it. The Consul just came up, we had a nice conversation, fortunately I graduated from English school, I still remember something. They carried out an act of pardon for this turkey. Gene. The consul promised to come and visit the bird, but he was recalled from Russia the next year.
But in any case, we accomplished what we wanted. We filmed a cool story, talked to the Consul, and unobtrusively promoted
Then several times the Consulate employees bought turkeys and other poultry meat from me.
Last year, I don’t remember whether I called the Consulate myself or they, but that’s not the point. I was invited to take part in a concert organized by children from the American Cultural Center; this center is naturally supported by the US Consulate General in Yekaterinburg. The kids are mostly from English schools, i.e. ours, but there were also Americans.
There was a concert of songs, dances, competitions, riddles, and at the end of all this action I showed up with a live turkey in my hands. Naturally, it was a surprise for everyone. And first of all for turkey
After I told a little about these wonderful birds, everyone began to take pictures. I don’t know about the Indian, but I felt like a monument to Lenin. I'm sitting on a chair, with a turkey in my arms, around pioneers with cameras." Junior group- don’t push, you’ll go with the turkey (that’s me) to take pictures after middle group“ “Vasya, don’t pull the turkey, otherwise he’ll bite” “Masha, you’re not the only one standing here near the turkey, don’t block the others,” and so on.
Well, I don’t know, this photo shoot lasted about 30 minutes. The turkey, and it was a turkey, by the way, (a big, 14 kilogram, snow-white beauty) was silent, practically did not move and, apparently, was very worried about his life, because everyone stroked him, looked into his eyes, touched him in every possible way. and admired. And only the bastard quietly crap on my suit. That's how my last Thanksgiving went.
Today a girl from the Consulate called, no show is planned today, but today their holiday order was delivered to them.
This is how Thanksgiving Day passes in Yekaterinburg.
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Here is a photo and text from the local newspaper "Evening Yekaterinburg" November 2007
And in the USA yesterday she decorated any feast
The surprise was a success. The people, no matter how large or small, were literally speechless when the director of the farm, Alexey VOLOZHANIN, brought a snow-white 12-kilogram turkey into the hall. The feathered one, however, also could not get rid of the shock, and therefore sat on the strong man’s lap like a soldier.
Ask what happened? Why did a civil institution temporarily turn into a kind of branch of a zoo? It's simple - at the American Information Center, which is based on the premises of the Library of the Head of Yekaterinburg, yesterday they celebrated perhaps the most important overseas holiday, Thanksgiving Day. A holiday that is simply unthinkable without turkey. This is how it happened historically.
Well, we will return to history, but for now a few words about today. The children sang, danced, demonstrated clothing models and their own drawings. Anna STROHMAYER, the daughter of the US Vice-Consul in Yekaterinburg, talked about how all her considerable relatives gather around a huge table on this day. What words of gratitude sound like for the good things in life. How amazingly her father cooks a traditional dish, again from turkey, what magnificent salads come out of her mother’s hands and how much joy adults and children experience. Theater "Tales of the Mirror" children's club“Nadezhda” made the guests laugh with the dialogues of Doctor Pilyulkin and his colleague Medunitsa. The school of young ladies captivated us with its charm and grace. School of creativity - knowledge English language. Young artists - with the colorfulness of their works, and the Children's International Charitable Center for Private Initiatives - with a demonstration of drawings by real Indians, or rather, small residents of the American state of South Dakota.
Someone, having read these lines, will probably wince and say displeasedly: “Not our holiday.” Of course not ours. But if anyone enjoyed the performances of the young artists, if the artists themselves had fun, if pumpkin pie - also a traditional treat of the day, recreated by the organizers - turned out to be delicious, then everything was not in vain.
