Cool thanks for sharing

It's always fun to know other peoples' holiday traditions! Thanks!

Nifty!
I wonder if 'speculaas' is kind of like Gingerbread or gingersnaps.
I love making fancy gingerbread houses at christmas time.
It sound yummy!

Wow this looks yummy!
MY sims will love to eat this tasty treat.

Hey look great.

In my family, german heritage, St. Nicholas would come on Dec 5 (I think that's the night before his bday?) He'd leave us stockings and a small gift.
It appears (google is a wonderful thing) that speculaas is similar but a bit different from gingerbread:
http://users.hubwest.com/hubert/speculaas.html
both have cinnamon, but instead of ginger there's nutmeg, cloves and mace

There are other recipes, but I'm gonna have to give this a try

tig,
yep, he comes in the night of December 5th, through the chimney no less
as to speculaas, I had to ask my dad what's in it
my parents own a bakery, so round this time of year the whole house smells heavily of chocolate and cinnamon
and he uses pretty much the same recipe (only more of everything)
the herbs are supposedly ginger, cinnamon, cloves, pepper, nutmeg and cardamon
but belgians tend to leave out the pepper and cardamon

Thanks for this! Although I live in Australia my family is dutch and so we have Speculaas whenever we can!

Very nice work Lethe_s very much appreciated, Thank You :moose:

I will defanitly have to take a look into the file (Tinker with it) to see what and how you have done this? never know i might learn something

jeej, sinterklaas is leip :D
I can't wait till 5 december :P

Thanks, this is great.
En lekker natuurlijk, speculaas is ook zaaaaaaaaaaaaaalig :agree:

Elly

hello !

frenchy here :vikingb:

we also have Saint Nicolas here, because i'm in the east of France... Lorraine and Alsace regions also have this tradition
IN ADDITION of father chrismas ! :thumb:

here there is Saint Nicolas shaped chocolats and "pain d'epices" (gingerbread ?)
and there is many parades in towns, especially for children

NB : i know "speculos" are from Belgium... and i was in USA 2 months ago and they well know it !!! :coffee:

have a nice holiday
Thierry (from Strasbourg FR)

wow, Saint Nicholas AND father christmas?
you lucky bastards

my mums german and buys speculata, and lebkuchen. both can be found in aldi, lidl and so forth from round about now till christmas. yummy

we used to put our shoes outside the bedroom door on dec 5th and during the night st nikolas would fill them with goodies
if you had been naughty throughout the year his sidekick Black Peter would leave a lump of coal instead
father christmas would come to our house on christmas eve, not christmas day, too

Mmm.. speculaas met roomboter erop is nog lekkerder! xx Anne

Lethe_s i read your pm but i am still a bit lost and cannot seem to get the package to work as instructed

So i uploaded it here and decided you might know what exactly i should do to correct it
or i can reference your correction should you upload a new sinterklaas package?

either way i love this creation i do have a few others i have done

The closest thing they have to speculaas in Amerika is something called ginger bread. It's speculaas mit gember go figure.

The only way to explain to non Dutchies what specluaas is would be to call it a sort of cinnamon butter cookie.
Basic specuaas is just flour,butter, cinnamon and brownsugar.
But speculaaskruiden ( speclaas seasioning) is generally
30 gram kaneelpoeder ( cinnamon powder )
10 gram kruidnagelpoeder ( clove powder)
10 gram nootmuskaat (nut meg )
5 gram witte peper ( whitepaepr )
5 gram anijszaad (oops I forgot the translation for this one )
5 gram korianderzaad ( coriander )

Ground together to a super fine powder.


Now question is will you Please make us some Oli ballen?
you know we can't have a proper " new years eve" with out them.
Please

errrr, what's oli ballen?

boy, this is turning into a cultural culinary thread, isn't it
you mean the bag of fried dough stuff? like beignets, but without filling?
note that I'm belgian, not dutch, we just have champagne on new year's eve

It's a verry Dutch thing but I've seen them in Antwerpen a few times as well.
Basicly they're just big deep fried balls of dough with cinnamon, lots of sugar, raisins and such. covered in powdered sugar.
They're the traditional Old years thing to nibble on.
Hang on let me see if I can find a page.

[AHhh my spelling went sides. forgot an e turned an o in to and a and what more?
Gee dyslesia is fun when thinking in several languages.]

Here it is in english just incase other people get curious.
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/recipe.../oliebolen.html

You're missing out on some yummy stuff down there...
But then again you guys have the super freit and Gadiva Chocolate and the waffles so I won't feel too bad for you.

Thank the god of your choice for cultural diversity

My family used to do St Nicholas day, but then, we spent a few years in Germany, and my dad's ancesters were germans from Metz (now France) and around Cologne and such. And my mother's father was second generation German, and my mother's mother was half Czech and half Yugoslav....

And I do wish that the holiday pack had more seasonal stuff from around the world, and of other religions too. I'm pagan, even if I was raised catholic, and I adore learning about other cultures and such.

And I'm going to have to see about making this stuff, it sounds wonderful! ^_^

Lol this is great! Now only if we had some pepernoten... Good job on this! OoOoo

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reyn....if you could make some stuff that would be really cool. i have only just had a go at recolouring bed linen and so am miles away from creating stuff myself
as a pagan too, i would love to see some stuff for solstice. the Holiday pack really holds nothing i would use.

anelca,
what's traditional for solstice?
cause I wholeheartedly agree on the cookies-and-santa stuff that maxis made
it's just not me
I was thinking of making a yule-log, that's what we have on Christmas (it's cake)
but if you have any good ideas (that are hopefully do-able), feel free to tell me