Of camels …. pastries and epiphany

 There are very few Christmas traditions which have survived in our house from my childhood.

But we are brining them back and adding new ones.

So now we don’t take the Christmas tree down the day before the kids would have gone back to school, but observe the old practice of leaving it up for the full twelve days of Christmas.

And tomorrow is that day, to which Tina is adding the Italian tradition of making glazed puff pastry animals. In Varese in the north where she grew up, the animal which the bakers make is the camel, and so that is what we will have tomorrow.

Location; Varese and Chorlton

Pictures; Varese, 2019, from the collection of Balzano