December Holidays
December 12- 19TH
Gingerbread House Day 12th
Poinsettia Day 12th
Ice Cream Day 13th
Violin Day 13th
National Lemon Cupcake Day 15th
Bill of Rights Day 15th
National Maple Syrup Day 17th
Bake Cookies Day 18th
Oatmeal Muffin Day 19th
National Poinsettia Day Saturday, December 12th
The 1600s
Poinsettias appeared in print for the first
time
Spanish botanist Juan Balme referenced
the poinsettia plant in his writings, calling them by their Aztec name,
Cuitlaxochitl — meaning “star flower."
Source: nationaltoday.com/national-poinsettia-
National Cocoa Day
First
chocolate beverage is thought to have been created by the Mayans around 500
BCE, although some believe chocolate drinks predate them. The Mayans ground cocoa
seeds into a paste and mixed it with ingredients such as water, chili peppers,
and cornmeal; this was drinking cold. By 1,400 CE, a cocoa beverage called
xocōlātl was important to the Aztecs. It was having an acquired taste, because
sugar had not yet been introduced to the Americas.
Source: Checkiday
National Violin Day
National
Violin Day is being observed today! It has always been observed annually on
December 13th.
Source: Checkiday
Ice cream Day
What
is ice cream made of? It is made with
ingredients such as eggs, cream, vanilla, milk, and sugar. The forerunners of
ice cream were flavored snow and ice. Marco Polo later brought a recipe that
resembled sherbet back to Italy, which developed into ice cream there sometime
during the sixteenth century. In England and France, royalty was the first to
eat foods similar to ice cream. "Cream Ice" was eaten by Charles I of
England in the seventeenth century, and Catherine de Medici of Italy introduced
a similar frozen treat to France in the mid-sixteenth century, after she
married French King Henry II.
In 1660,
the general public began eating ice cream.
Source: Checkiday
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