Date: December 24th 2009

 

Westprint Friday Five December 24, 2009

 

Included this week are:

·         Christmas Stories, recipes and jokes

 

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A Christmas note from Jo.

A very heartfelt thank you to all the Friday Five crew from all the Westprint Mob. Your articles and comments are always appreciated – they make my job easier. Thank you for purchasing Friday Five items – that is how I justify spending a day each week preparing the Friday Five. And lastly thank you for telling us that you enjoy the jokes – we pride ourselves on the having the worst jokes around!  

I have been spending some time thinking about what I could write as a Christmas message and remain politically and religiously correct, while not offending others with different beliefs. I came up with a wish to you all:

“Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all Mankind”

I was trawling through the internet on this mission to find the politically correct, non-offensive Christmas message and remembered a movie I saw a while ago called Pay It Forward. I was looking for information on the concept of Pay It Forward and found that in addition to the movie was a wealth of historical information. Two favourite quotes are included below.  

·         Catherine Ryan Hyde wrote a book called ‘Pay it forward' in 2000 which was later made into a movie. The story tells of a boy given a school project to change mankind and comes up with the concept of doing something good for 3 strangers, and asking them to ‘pay it forward’. As people pass the goodness of their hearts forward, the world becomes a better place.  

·         Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote: "In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody."  

·         The concept was described by Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Benjamin Webb dated April 22, 1784 :

I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you. When you [...] meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro' many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.  

I hope you enjoy the Christmas stories below and have a safe and peaceful Christmas. Provided there are no broken bones or other minor emergencies we hope to be camping on Kangaroo Island over the summer and the Friday Five will be back on Feb 6, 2010 .

 

Australian Christmas Carols.  

Aussie 12 days of Christmas

(found on the koala.com website) Copyright Jaybee's Entertainment  

On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
A kookaburra in a gum tree
On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Two cockatoos, and a kookaburra in a gum tree

Three parakeets.........
Four great galahs.......
Five opals black......
Six 'roos a-jumping........
Seven emus running.......

Eight koalas clinging.........
Nine wombats waddling........
Ten dingoes dashing.......
Eleven snakes a-sliding.......
Twelve goannas going.......

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Twelve goanna going, Eleven snakes a-sliding,
Ten dingoes dashing, Nine wombats waddling,
Eight koalas clinging, Seven emus running,
Six 'roos a-jumping, Five opals black,
Four great galahs, Three parakeets,
Two cockatoos, And a kookaburra up a gum tree.

 

Six White Boomers

 copyright Rolf Harris. 

Early on one Christmas Day a Joey Kangaroo,
Was far from home and lost in a great big zoo.
Mummy, where's my mummy? They've taken her away!
We'll help you find your mummy, son. Hop up on the sleigh.

Up beside the bag of toys little Joey hopped,
But they hadn't gone far when Santa stopped.
Unharnessed all the reindeer and Joey wondered why,
Then he heard a far off booming in the sky.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.

Pretty soon old Santa began to feel the heat,
Took his fur-lined boots off to cool his feet,
Into one popped Joey, feeling quite okay,
While those old man Kangaroos kept pulling on the sleigh.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.

Joey said to Santa, Santa, what about the toys?
Aren't you giving some to these girls and boys?'
They've got all their presents, son, we were here last night,
This trip is an extra trip, Joey's special flight.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.

Soon the sleigh was flashing past right over Marble Bar,
Slow down there, cried Santa, it can't be far,
Come up on my lap here, son, and have a look around.
There she is, that's Mummy, bounding up and down.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.

Well that's the bestest Christmas treat that Joey ever had,
Curled up in mother's pouch feeling snug and glad.
The last they saw was Santa heading northwards from the sun,
The only year the boomers worked a double run.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.

 

Christmas Recipes

The kids and I found the following recipe in an old CWA cookbook and were going to impress you all with it – only to discover that a similar concoction is now being sold in the markets.

Yorkshire Christmas Pie (18^th Century Recipe)

One turkey, one goose, one fowl, one pigeon, a little sausage meat, some forcemeat, six or eight hard boiled eggs, half an ounce of pepper, half an ounce of salt, some good gravy, raised pie crust.

Method. Bone all the birds and season the inside of each one with pepper and salt. Put the goose inside the turkey, the fowl inside the goose and the pigeon inside that, filling the spaces with some forcemeat, the sausage meat and the hard boiled eggs, each cut into quarters. Sew up the turkey to give the appearance of a whole bird and then lay it in a thick raised crust. Cut or mark out a lid at the top, brush it all over with some beaten egg yolk and ornament the top and sides. Bake in a slow oven for at least four hours, according to the size of the pie, then carefully raise the lid and pour in some savoury gravy. Let it stand to cool. This will keep a long time as the pastry is not meant to be eaten, merely to provide a container. 

I wonder what a long time to keep cooked poultry without refrigeration would be?

 Kylie's Mini Christmas Puddings (also from the koala.com website)
Ingredients:

1 x 800gm Dark Fruit Cake (cheap brand)
½ - 1 cup Orange Juice
1 cup Coconut
Icing Sugar
Red & Green Jelly Lollies

Method:

Break Fruit Cake into crumbly pieces. Pour a little Orange Juice at a time into crumbled cake until moistened. Roll mixture into balls (a little smaller than a golf ball). Chill in Fridge. Mix Icing Sugar with Orange Juice. Decorate top of balls with icing. Cut up Lollies into pieces & decorate on top of the icing to make it look like holly. Chill & serve

 

Christmas Damper

Damper is a scone/bread mixture which was made originally by cooking the dough in a campfire in the bush by stockmen and drovers in the early days.

2 cups of SR(self raising) flour
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup milk or water (enough to make a medium or soft dough)
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda

Rub the butter into the flour. Knead. Mould into a Christmas shape - a wreath, or a star.
Bake in hot oven (or in ashes if you are cooking it in a fire). Cook for 20 minutes until brown. Serve with butter and jam, honey or golden syrup.

 

Friday Funnies

 

Ways to Annoy Your Roommate during Christmas

Claim you were a Christmas tree in your former life. If s/he tries to bring one into the room, scream hysterically.

Go to the mall with your roommate and sit on Santa's lap. Refuse to get off.

Wear a Santa suit all the time. Deny you're wearing it.

Hang mistletoe in the doorway. When your roommate enters or leaves the room, plant a wet one on his/her lips.

Hang a stocking with your roommates name on it. Collect coal and sharp objects in it. If s/he asks, say "you've been very naughty this year."

Paint your nose red and wear antlers. Constantly complain about how you never get to join in on the reindeer games.

Make conversation out of Christmas Carols. (I.E. "You know, I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night.")

Give your roommate the gifts from the twelve days of Christmas song.

Whip your roommate screaming "now Dasher, now Dancer, now Donner, and Blitzen, etc."

Tear down all your roommate's Christmas decorations yelling "Bah Humbug!"

Pin a poinsettia to your lapel.

Ring jingle bells maniacally saying "every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."

Stand in front of the mirror reciting "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" over and over in your underwear.

Watch your roommate when s/he is sleeping. When s/he wakes up sing, "he sees you when you're sleeping..."

When your roommate goes to the bathroom, rearrange his/her possessions. Tell him/her that Santa's elves must have done it.    

 

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