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To ask you - what actually are "all the trimmings"?!

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chocolatebox1 · 17/12/2018 13:08

I see this written down everywhere at this time of year or people describe their Christmas dinners and say "we're having [meat type] and all the trimmings," but what are these mysterious trimmings? If I asked what you're having to eat, I'd actually like to know!
When I was growing up, my grandma made Christmas lunch which was usually turkey, gravy, carrots, peas and mashed potatoes (although I prefer roasted ones now). Other people often had pigs in blankets which I was very envious of!
Whilst I know a lot of people probably don't care, for those of you who are making a Christmas dinner can you tell us what "the trimmings" you will be serving are?

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BroomstickOfLove · 20/12/2018 06:51

And while 'a white sauce mixed with breadcrumbs" is sort of accurate, it's not a roux-based while with breadcrumbs stirred in, but a micture of milk and cream infused with onion, bay leaves, cloves and nutmeg, thickened with breadcrumbs.

LoudBatPerson · 20/12/2018 06:51

Our "trimmings" have changed over time to fit in every bodies favourites, so some are are probably not traditional at all. There are a few bits I personal think don't belong on a Christmas dinner but are there as they are a favourite of DH or one of the DC. We will be having:

Turkey
Gammon
Two stuffings
Pigs in blankets
Broccoli
Carrots
Petit pois
Carrot and parsnip mash
Red cabbage
Roast potatoes
Mash potatoes (no place imo but DH favourite)
Roast parsnips and swede
Yorkshire puddings (no place imo but DH and DC love them)
Cranberry sauce
Mint sauce (no place imo, but only sauce suitable for a roast dinner DD likes)
Gravy

Desserts will be Christmas pudding and a big chocolate shop bought alternative (thank you Waitrose )

concretesieve · 20/12/2018 10:31

Broomstick thanks - better description than mine Smile

I love learning about different food and different names for things - US pigs in a blanket (I hadn't heard of them before) are very like UK sausage rolls - yum.

I'm older Grin and am trying to remember when pigs in blankets became a 'thing' Grin About 1990? Before that, it was chipolatas and bacon rolls ie as two separate items.

One of Miss Read's novels mentions them, but she uses it for sausages tucked up in a blanket of mash.

BroomstickOfLove · 20/12/2018 11:53

They were always pigs in blankets for me, I think, and I'm in my forties. But my mother's family aren't British, so we had an untraditional Christmas dinner, so it's possibly I wasn't exposed to pigs in blankets until after 1990.

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