We all certainly agree that the table setting for the holiday is a real art, especially if this holiday is Christmas. Therefore, to cover the Christmas holiday table, you need to prepare not only traditional festive dishes, but also very beautiful and exquisite to serve them.
Service for the celebration
Usually, for a Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve, twelve fasting dishes are prepared, including the twelve apostles. Of course, the main thing is not how you serve, asama atmosphere of the holiday. Nevertheless, this is a great excuse to get out of the cupboard dining table set or even buy a new one to receive the long-awaited guests at the highest level.
So, what kind of service to choose - for 4, 6, 8 or 12 persons-of course, to decide how to host you. But it's best to buy 12 servants after all. The composition of this service must include all the necessary items for a beautiful table setting. And yet, remember that the plates usually beat most often, so if possible, buy one or two more.
If you wake the service with a dishwasher, then at the time of purchase, look for the corresponding inscription on the package of the service.
Do you prefer a set of dishes to one large service? Then it will necessarily be held in the same style, as provided for by the rule of etiquette. When choosing the components, remember the minimum of objects for a single person: a snack bar, a pie, a small dining room and a small dessert tray, a soup bowl and a tea cup. Another should be added to this list a round or oval dish and a vase that has a low leg. Buying dishes individually is beneficial in cases where you are sure that, for example, a sauce boat or tureen from the service you will never come to life in future.
What and how to properly serve the Christmas dinner table
A stew made of wheat with poppy seeds, honey, nuts and raisins is the main and indispensable item for many years, the Christmas dish. Unfortunately, according to the rules of etiquette, special dishes for this delicious dish are provided, so it is recommended to serve kutya on the table in small dish plates or kremankah.
As a rule, the cake dish has a diameter equal to 175 millimeters. Eemozhno very well used when serving the table: it can become a small personal bread for each of the guests sitting at the table. You can put some toast, toast, pampushki, as well as Christmas pies of bacon, beans or mushrooms. It is very often used as a plate for salad bowls or saucepans.
Do not dispense with serving and without the so-called snack bar. It is usually accepted to serve cold fish and meat snacks, sandwiches or salads. However, at the time of the holy dinner, which is strictly composed of lean dishes, only fish or vegetable snacks are put on it.
Salads, marinades and pickles should be placed on a celebratory table in small salads that are square, herring in a herringbone, and stuffed fish on an oval dish that is specially designed for cold fish snacks.
Now we turn to hot dishes. For cabbage rolls with rice and mushrooms you need to put on the table small tabletops, the diameter of which, as a rule, should be 240 millimeters. Avot for vareniki with cabbage or potatoes put on the table special snack plates, the diameter of which should be equal to 200 millimeters. By the way, dumplings or pies for Christmas is often done with a surprise - a note with a special wish or a pet. To the lucky one to whom she finds herself, life will bring good luck in all the endeavors and endeavors!
We pass to the holy saint - a borscht. Traditional post-borscht served in a soup tureen, but for each of the guests you need to place deep-sided plates. They are intended for borscht soups, soups. In other words, exclusively for the first hot dishes with large proportions of pieces of meat or fish. If you have cooked cabbage, it is necessary to prepare bouillon casseroles for it, which have two handles (a broth cup with one handle, designed specifically for delicate soups, puree, that do not have garnish).
For sweet dumplings with apples and poppy is perfect suited dessert plates or bowl-shaped vase with a low leg. Such crockery can also serve cakes, cakes and fruit.
Traditional decoction (Christmas drink from dried fruits) invite guests in cups, which, as a rule, should be attached to any dining room service.
Decoration of a Christmas table
The basis of any festive table is a tablecloth. It should be white in color and not have catchy drawings. If the table has a beautiful wooden table, you can not lay a tablecloth. Go around with suitable linen napkins that have an original ornament. This will give a special coziness. It can also be sewn on the chairs of a cloak or buy them; Bows, drapery always create a style of elegance and sophistication.
Remember that there should be a bright spot in the center of the festive table. From the branches of spruce, cones and Christmas tree decorations make an original composition that will give the table more fun. By the way, this design should not be very high. Otherwise it will block the guests sitting opposite each other.
Separately, I want to mention the coverage of the Christmas tree. Here it is necessary to remember that Christmas, in the first place, is connected with magic. Therefore, the true magic of the festive atmosphere can only create a flickering fire and the smell of wax! Place on the table a couple of decorative candles in metal candlesticks with gilding or ceramic vases with beautiful patterns. The abundance of sparkling lights, sparkling silver, crystal glasses, Christmas toys with the candles displayed in them will create the original atmosphere of this good holiday! By the way, candles for decorating the table can be used both aromatic and simple.
A huge role at the time of serving the table is played by napkins, which must be properly and originally folded. For example, you can make them in the form of an angel's wings and place in the plate of each of the guests. To make wings of an angel from a napkin, we take a napkin of a square shape, a tinsel of red thread, an angel figure (this can be a Christmas decoration, or an image of an angel carved from a postcard). Now we need to fold our napkin so that we get a triangle. Then from the bend we retreat a few centimeters and collect a piece of napkin in an accordion so that we get sharp long "ears". At the bottom, we unite them and bandage the napkin with a thread and attach to it the figure of the angel prepared beforehand. Our napkins are ready and we can decorate them with a Christmas table!