Superstition of the Week - Holiday Food

Holiday Food Superstitions

• You will have as many happy months in the coming year, as the number of houses you eat mince pies in during Christmastime.


• To have good health throughout the next year, eat an apple on Christmas Eve.


• Into the mince pie mix, a sixpence coin for luck; a thimble for prosperity; a ring for marriage and a bachelor's button were also added. The things that one got into their piece predicted the year ahead.


• Since the Victorian Times, people stirred the cake mix thrice and make a wish for a gift from Santa.


• It was considered unlucky to refuse a mince pudding on Christmas Eve.


• Three sips of salted water before Christmas dinner was said to bring good luck.


• The dumb cake was made at midnight on Christmas Eve is prepared in complete silence by the bachelors and spinsters. One who made it left their initials on the upper surface of the cake. If the silence remained unbroken, the future partner was believed to come and leave their initials on the cake. If one walked backwards to bed after eating dumb cake, a dream about a future spouse was sure to visit them.


• One must never cut the Christmas pie as it cuts the luck.


• It was a bad omen to eat mince pies before Christmas Eve and after Twelfth Night.