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Cost-of-Living Crisis Appeal.

The Somerset Cost-of-Living Crisis Appeal, run by local charity Somerset Community Foundation (SCF), has raised over £100,000 since its launch just over a month ago (correct as at 05/10/2022). The appeal is raising money to fund local charities and community organisations supporting those in most urgent need during the cost-of-living crisis.

The charity is now offering grants to local charities and has launched the Warm Somerset Spaces Fund.

Charities and community groups across the county offering ‘warm spaces’ to people experiencing fuel poverty this winter are invited to apply for a grant of up to £1,000.

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the blind and partially sighted people of Wells and the surrounding areas. Our volunteers read and record local papers and news publications each week, keeping our readers up-to-date with local news and events. This service is free. We provide an easy-to-use speaker which is delivered personally and time is spent with the listener to explain how the device is used. We then send a weekly USB stick with the week’s recording on and when the listener has finished, they can return the USB stick using the free post envelope provided. Please contact Angela via ac.wellsrotary@gmail.com for more information.

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Housing Growth in Historic Cities.

The City of Wells has played a key part in a national research project looking at housing growth in historic cities. Following extensive research, the final report “Towards a better balance between heritage and growth” has been launched. Chair of Wells Civic Society, Chris Winter, who is a founding member of the Alliance of Historic Cathedral Cities and Towns (ACT) said: “I was delighted that Wells was chosen as the pilot case study for this important work. Like so many civic societies, in Wells we strive to protect the heritage, but also appreciate the need for additional housing. It is possible that with good planning and design and an appreciation of what makes a place special, a balance can be achieved…”

The full report can be seen on the website. Please contact chair@wellscivicsociety.org.uk or see www. wellscivicsociety.org.uk for further details.

planting snowdrop bulbs in 2015. Planting has taken place each year ever since, even during Covid. In total, almost 400,000 snowdrop bulbs have been planted in the last seven years, visible each February as magnificent swathes of delicate white flowers on verges, roundabouts and community spaces across the town.

The programme for the 2023 Snowdrop Festival in February is now complete. Please visit www.sheptonsnowdrops.org.uk/ for more information.

Friday 2nd December – Sunday 4th December 10.30am – 4.30pm (Sunday 11.30am – 4.30pm) – Crib Festival, St. Cuthbert’s Church, Wells.

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Come along and experience the wonderful Christmas story. Crib sets that have been gathered from around the world will be on display. Bring your own set to the Church on Thursday 1st December and it will be part of this spectacular festival. Write your details on a card and a little about your treasured set. The Church will be adorned in colour, stars and angels and seasonal refreshments are available. Raffle, craft stalls and dressing up for children. The festival will help to support the food bank as a donation will be given to bring some joy at Christmas time to those in need. Entry £2.50.

Children free. Re-entry free. For further details, please ring the Church office 01749 676906.

Saturday 3rd December 10.00am12.00pm – Labour Party Coffee Morning, Portway Annexe, Wells.

Please join us for tea, coffee and/or cake, see a presentation and participate in interesting conversations.

Our speaker this time will be Andy Merryfield, a wellknown Wells community and Labour activist. He will introduce ‘The Spirit Level - Why Equality is Better for Everyone’ a ground-breaking book which highlights inequality as the key determinant in almost every aspect of life. Members and non-members equally welcome.

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Rising Cost of Living With the cost of living crisis starting to bite and with the cold weather fast approaching it is understandable than many homeowners are looking at their finances and seeing how they can best manage when everything seems more expensive. The average interest rate on a five-year fixed rate mortgage has now reached 6.02% for the first time in 12 years, a level not seen since February 2010 according to Moneyfacts service.

So what can you do? If you are on a standard variable rate then you can remortgage to a fixed rate, if you are planning to stay in your home that way you will have guaranteed monthly payments you can budget for rather than monthly payments changing in line with the base rate. If you are currently tied into a fixed rate and have other outstanding debt then you could look into a second charge mortgage previously known as a secured loan. With a second charge mortgage you can consolidate existing debt into one monthly payment over a fixed term. This way you can reduce your outgoings and have one monthly payment. A second charge mortgage lender will ‘sit’ behind your current lender, you can borrow up to 100% of the value in your home and the funds can be used for almost any purpose, consolidating debt, releasing equity, home improvements.

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Wishing you a very pretty sitting Christmas…

Saturday 3rd December 7.00pm - Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society: Handel’s Messiah, Wells Cathedral.

At Pretty Sitting we are getting ready for Christmas.

My family has always loved making our own decorations and presents. It’s an important part of the annual festive traditions for us. So, we carry this love of everything handmade into our shop at this time of the year. As well as fabric gifts direct from our Tweentown workshop we also stock ethically sourced products from Nkuku, Weaver Green, Botanical Candle Co and Ruby Cubes; handmade Persian rugs and Scottish wool blankets and throws. Lots of Pretty things for your home…

Welcome in the festive season with this beautiful telling of the Christmas story – Handel’s Messiah. Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society (a registered charity) are delighted to welcome back the Music for Awhile orchestra, with their leader Maggie Faultless, and a line-up of world-class soloists for their annual performance of this great work. For tickets, please visit www.wcos.org.uk

And, this year, our Bath Street shop is staying open until 6pm for those last minute gifts on Tuesday 20th , Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd December. Why not drop by for a browse and enjoy a complimentary glass of bubbly with us.

The workshop will be closing between Friday 23rd Dec and reopening on Tuesday 3rd January. Bath Street will be closed until 10th January, but if you’ve got a project that you’d like us to help you with just visit our workshop for a chat.

Our lovely handmade products can also be found on our website shop at www.prettysittingvintage.co.uk

Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas from Jill, Molly and the Pretty Sitting team!

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Sunday 4th December 1.00pm for 2.00pm – RNLI Reindeer Run, Winscombe Cricket Club Car Park.

The Branch is organising its first ever ‘Reindeer Run’ on Sunday 4th December that will be open to everyone that wishes to run, stroll or walk and support the RNLI. To take part please register in advance on the RNLI Winscombe Branch Facebook page www.facebook.com/groups/831976350849360 To contact the local organiser, please email tim@ moransonline.com

Monday 5th December 11.00am-11.45am - Trio Paradis Winter Wonderland, St. Thomas’ Church.

Monthly café concert. Seasonal favourites with a snowy theme! Pop up café starts at 10.30am. Free entry with retiring collection. Please visit www. trioparadis.com for more details.

Monday 5th & Friday 16th December Globe Carnival Christmas Bingos Monday 5th December: Croscombe Village Hall.

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Monday 5th December 7.00pm - Wells Fountain Poets, The King’s Head, Wells.

Our featured poet will be Isabel White, director of multi-media performance company Alarms and Excursions. Open-mic slots available. Suggested donation £3.

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Garden View… This month - Magical Poinsettias

In the UK, poinsettias have become as entwined with Christmas as holly and mistletoe. Yet poinsettias are actually sub-tropical plants, native to Central America and Mexico, requiring temperatures of between 10 and 21 degrees centigrade to survive.

The bright red ‘flowers’ are really bracts, surrounding the real flowers, which are tiny and insignificant.

They are notoriously difficult to persuade to flower again so it is with some pride that I tell you my current poinsettia is seven years old, huge, and flowers every year.

One year Pepita’s family had no money at all to buy such a gift so it was with a sad heart that Pepita walked to the church that Christmas Eve and as they drew closer she began to weep.

“Little Pepita, why do you cry?” asked her older brother Pablo.

“Because I have no gift for the Christ child,” she answered.

“Oh Pepita, even the most humble gift, if given in love, will be accepted by him,” said Pablo, comforting her.

Pepita considered this for a while then gathered a handful of weeds from the roadside verge and fashioned them into a small posy. But as she entered the church her heart felt heavier than before.

With her head bowed she approached the altar and knelt to lay her posy before the manger.

Suddenly the tiny bouquet burst into blooms of brilliant red starry flowers and all who saw them were sure they had witnessed a Christmas miracle.

The flowers are known as Flores de Noche Buena in Mexico which translates as Flowers of the Holy Night.

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If you want to try this, fertilize the plant once a month then cut back the stems in February to promote new growth. In May repot it to a larger container.

From late September to 1st December cover the plant between 6pm and 8am as poinsettias need long periods of darkness in order to persuade the bracts to turn red. Around December 1st you should have a beautiful flowering poinsettia.

But if this sounds too much like hard work...well, you can always buy another one!

As it’s the festive season I thought I’d finish with a traditional Christmas story, explaining how the poinsettia came to be associated with this time of year.

If you buy a poinsettia for someone this year it might be nice to tell them the story when you give them the plant: In Mexico, there once lived a little girl called Pepita who came from a very poor family.

Every year, she and her brother Pablo looked forward to the big Christmas festival in their village.

A manger scene would be set up in the church and the days before Christmas were filled with parades and parties. On Christmas Eve the whole village would attend church and all the children would place a gift for the baby Jesus next to the manger.

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Wednesday 7th December 10.00am4.00pm - Winter Wednesday, Wells Town Hall.

Over 60 stalls across 2 floors. With gifts and treats for you and your loved ones. Gallery café too.

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songs and sea shanties in aid of the Ukraine War Appeal. Join us for an evening of wonderful songs and rousing choruses. Enjoy a glass of mulled wine, or coffee and cake (donations) in this stunning venue to get you in the Christmas spirit and raise much needed money for the people of Ukraine.

Tickets in advance only for £5.00.

Wednesday 7th December 11.00am12.00pm – Beat Surgery, Wells Library.

For tickets and further info. contact: Issy Emeney issy@emeney.com. 01934 741551 James Barattini winscombe.folk@gmail.com 07703 538861.

Drop in and speak to a member of Wells City Neighbourhood Policing Team. Whether you want advice on how to protect your belongings, more information about the work we are doing in your area, or you want to raise a concern about an issue in your community, your Neighbourhood Policing team will be on hand to help.

Saturday 10th December 7.30pm The Chorus of Disapproval Christmas Concert, St. Thomas Church, Wells.

Saturday 10th December Doors Open 6.30pm, Concert 7.00pm-10.00pm – A Festive Evening of Folk Songs for Ukraine, Cheddar Baptist Church Mendip Folk Choir and shanty group High & Dry are joining forces to put on an evening of seasonal folk

Christmas Jumper Day! Thursday 8th December 2022 is Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day!

The charity Save the Children started Christmas Jumper Day in 2012. Every year since then, millions of people don gaudy festive knitwear in their school or office and donate £2 to a good cause.

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Our annual Christmas concert this December celebrates the choir’s tenth anniversary. The community-based choir have sung some very challenging and eclectic pieces, including works

by Handel, Britten, Vivaldi, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Abba, The Who, Martha and the Vandellas, the Temptations as well as tackling British Folk, American Folk, Irish Folk, Medieval Carols and Irving Berlin show tunes!

Tickets are available on the door. and dresses were replaced with cosy knitwear to encourage consumers to buy seasonal goods.

These were more conventional woollies though.

As Christmas became ever more commercial, ‘novelty’ jumpers appeared decorated with snowmen, snowflakes, Santas, and popular cartoon characters dressed in festive attire.

In the film Bridget Jones’s Diary, Colin Firth’s character sported a classic ‘ugly’ Christmas jumper with a giant reindeer’s head emblazoned on the front, and the ugly Christmas jumper entered British consciousness. Almost everyone from celebrities to politicians own at least one item of silly feastive knitwear.

There’s a Christmas jumper to suit every taste, from ‘techno-knits’ covered in fairy lights, which connect to your phone and play musical clips, to jumpers bearing whimsical dachshunds in Santa hats, through to elegantly beautiful sparkly numbers that wouldn’t look out of place at a cocktail event.

Pull on your Christmas pullover on December 8th and help raise money for a good cause.

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All Change for Christmas

Things we missed about Christmas last year:

Things are different now

Singing in the church carol service (my husband) Ice skating (everyone) Going to see The Nutcracker (ballet-mad ten-yearold) Attending the Christmas lights switch-on (everyone) Family tobogganing night in the snow dome (everyone) New things we’d like to try this year: Go to a local stately home to see the lights (everyone) Go to a German market (husband and me) Make a gingerbread house! (the kids)

I spent Christmas 2019 working hospital shifts until Christmas Eve. Using logistical planning worthy of the British military I shopped, attended two concerts and a Nativity play in three different schools (on the same day of course), bought and wrapped gifts, decorated the house, attended two work parties, entertained my extended family, offended my mother over our choice of food, and my aunty over allowing our 17-year-old to have a beer, and I cried myself to sleep on Christmas Night.

We’re still hosting immediate family for a couple of days between Christmas and New Year, and extended family are invited to visit for one of those days. Not everyone is happy about this state of affairs but I’m not going back to the pre-2020 madness of festive martyrdom, trying to be all things to all people and stressing over whether everyone else’s Christmas is perfect at the expense of my sanity.

I spent Christmas 2020 working on the front line in COVID care. My family celebrated the day without me or a turkey and I cried myself to sleep on Christmas Night.

If Covid showed us anything, it’s that life is precious, fragile, and unpredictable. It forced us to make decisions about who we wanted to spend our time and energy on. The pandemic was a catalyst for change for our family, and I suspect it might be the same for other folk too.

Last year, in early December, while discussing how much of a ‘normal’ Christmas might be possible, my husband announced, ‘I don’t want to go back to normal Christmases.’ And suddenly I loved him more than ever.

Last year we kept Christmas small, just us and the kids and a small twinkly tree. We ate chocolate for breakfast, played board games, went for a walk, watched a film, ate my husband’s amazing sticky Chinese chicken wings for lunch, read books, played cards, then ate Christmas pudding for supper followed by marshmallows toasted on the fire...I relaxed completely and shed no tears.

This year I asked what everyone wanted to do. The consensus was that last year was great but there were some aspects of our previous Christmases that my kids and my husband missed. So, we took the chance to recalibrate the festive season, and this is what they came up with.

Things we loved about Christmas last year: NO HOUSE GUESTS (everyone) Playing board games (everyone) Toasting marshmallows (the kids) Long walk (me and husband)

Will Christmas ever be the same? I don’t know, but different doesn’t mean worse. We can make new traditions that are more personal and meaningful than before and may even look back and wonder why we didn’t shake things up earlier.

Merry Christmas,

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Saturday 10th December 7.30pm - Pete Knight (Steeleye Span) and John Spiers (Bellowhead) Duo. Two legendary folk musicians team up for an evening of improvisation and invention. Don’t miss this rare chance to engage with Britain’s folk music heritage and its beautiful, mysterious tunes in the hands of these uniquely gifted musicians. Tickets £20 tickets.cedarshallwells.co.uk/events/41533/ pete-knight-steeleye-span-and-john-spiersbellowhead-duo

Monday 12th December 10.30am11.00am - Tai Chi for Health, Wells Library.

Experience the gentle flowing movements of Tai Chi and treat your whole body to a gentle and relaxing workout. Say goodbye to sweating, puffing and panting and say hello to feeling cool, calm, refreshed and energised.

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The Christmas market returns to Wells for the festive season! Up to 100 stalls are expected. Visitors will be treated with seasonal gifts and local food and drink in the beautiful city centre and can embrace the holiday season with live music and entertainment to enjoy.

Saturday 17th December 10.00am4.00pm – Holly Jolly Christmas, Wells Town Hall.

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Saturday 17th December 12.15pm for 12.45pm – Royal Air Forces MidSomerset Branch Christmas Lunch, Wells Golf Club.

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Wednesday 21st December 10.00am4.00pm – Blitzen’s Bazaar, Wells Town Hall.

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Wednesday 21st December 4.30pm – Tree of Light, Bishop’s Palace, Wells.

This is an opportunity for members of the local community to sponsor a star in memory of a ‘Loved One’ and reflect on their lives. A star decoration with your ‘Loved One’s’ name will be hung on the tree and your ‘Loved One’s’ name listed. The Bishop’s Palace Pastor, Rosey Lunn, has very kindly agreed to give the dedication, during which the names of all the ‘Loved Ones’ will be read out. Application forms are available at The Bishop’s Palace ticket office and Wells Tourist Information Office, where donations can also be left. Please email Alan or Ian via cityofwellslions@gmail.com for more information.

Wednesday 7th and Wednesday 14th December 7.30pm-9.30pm - Wells Folk Dance Club, Dinder Village Hall.

All levels of experience is welcome at this friendly and fun club! The annual membership fee is £7; the weekly fee is £3.50 for members and £4 for visitors, which includes light refreshment. Prospective members - first evening free! For any enquiries, please contact Pat Watkins on 01749 674920.

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A Boy Called Christmas One Day in December

by Josie Silver

It’s the time of year for a feel-good romantic novel, one that can be enjoyed curled up under a blanket with a nutmeg-spiced hot chocolate.

Laurie is unlucky in love and stuck in a career rut.

One day she is sitting on a bus when she spots a man reading at the bus stop. He looks up, their eyes meet and somewhere there is a spark. Laurie can’t stop thinking about him, wondering if they will ever meet. Her best friend and roommate Sarah is Laurie’s opposite. She introduces Jack, her new boyfriend to Laurie, anxious that they will hit it off except... her boyfriend is the man from the bus, the guy that Laurie has been dreaming about. No surprises here...classic romantic chick-lit so far.

Cue heartbreak and hiccups, and the quest not to hurt a friend while pursuing your own ‘happily ever after’.

But this novel actually spans a decade (unusual for a romance) of friendship, fate, unrequited feelings, forgiveness, heartache, and love. It’s not a typical love story...there’s good character development. It’s told both from Laurie and Jack’s perspectives, with the reader privy to their thoughts and feelings. It has all the nostalgia (and a few of the cliches) of a Richard Curtis film, but the trio of central characters clearly care deeply about each other. Their friendship feels genuine, which in turn makes us care about them and gives the story its heart.

If this book doesn’t get made into a film at some point, I’ll be surprised.

by Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould This enthralling tale tells the story of Father Christmas as a boy. It’s touching, funny and packed with memorable characters Nikolas and his lumberjack father Joel are poor.

Miika (a mouse) is his Nikolas’ only friend. In his whole life Nikolas has only received two Christmas presents: a sleigh and a turnip doll.

Then Anders the Hunter comes to recruit Joel to work on a mission for the King. If they can prove the existence of Elves they will be rewarded handsomely.

Keen to improve their circumstances, Joel heads off, leaving Nikolas to be looked after by his horrible Aunt Carlotta.

When Joel doesn’t return Nikolas begins to worry and eventually sets out with Miika on the long and treacherous journey to find his father.

Along the way there is Elf Village, a kidnapped elf, a naughty Truth Pixie that likes to watch people’s heads explode, and an unpleasant Troll named Sebastian. There is also of course, a flying reindeer.

Haig does not disappoint with the ending, explaining how Nikolas finally finds his purpose, by becoming Father Christmas.

A Boy Called Christmas is the perfect festive story to read to children on the run-up to Christmas. As a bonus it is beautifully illustrated by Chris Mould. One you will return to each Christmas.

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Festive Terrine A delicious and easy terrine that looks impressive but is easy to adapt to ingredients you have available

Ingredients: 1 tbsp. olive oil, plus extra to brush 1 onion, finely chopped 2 tbsp. brandy, (optional) 12 rashers smoked streaky bacon (optional) 2 skinless chicken breasts, cut into small pieces (about 1cm) 500g minced pork or turkey.

50g frozen peas OR 50g roughly chopped pistachios OR 50g chopped walnuts 50g dried cranberries OR 50g chopped dried apricots OR 50g chopped dried prunes ¾ tsp freshly grated nutmeg leaves from two sprigs of fresh thyme.

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Method: Cook the onion gently for 10 minutes until softened and translucent. Pour in the brandy if using and cook for 30 seconds. Empty the onions into a large bowl and allow to cool.

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Preheat oven to 180°C / 160°C fan / Gas mark 4.

If using the bacon, line a 2lb loaf tin with 10 of the rashers making sure you leave part of the rashers hanging over the edge of the tin. To the cooled onion in the bowl, add the chopped chicken, minced pork or turkey, and the rest of the chosen ingredients, with the thyme leaves, nutmeg, and a generous amount of seasoning. Mix thoroughly.

Press the resulting mixture into the loaf tin, levelling off the surface. If you’re using bacon fold the overhanging rashers over the filling. Fold any overhanging bacon over the filling and cover with the remaining rashers. Press down again. Cover the top with a lightly oiled sheet of cooking foil and press this down on top of the loaf tin. Then wrap the tin securely in a double layer of foil and place put into a roasting tin.

Boil the kettle then half-fill the roasting tin with boiling water and carefully transfer to the oven.

Cook for 90 minutes until the terrine feels solid when the top is pressed. Lift tin out of the water, remove the outer layers of foil, leaving only the greased foil layer in place. Then carefully pour out any liquid from the terrine to prevent it setting as jelly. Leave to cool. Place a weight on top of the foil layer (tins of beans or even a house brick will do) and chill overnight.

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Ginger root originally came to Europe via the Silk Road, which was an ancient trade route, and in the Middle Ages it was used for medicinal purposes and in the preserving of meats.

By the late Middle Ages, Europeans had begun to bake sweet gingerbread biscuits. These were shaped like animals, kings, and queens, and were sometimes gilded with gold leaf. They were a staple at Medieval fairs across Europe, particularly in England, France, Holland, and Germany. Queen Elizabeth I is even said to have had some made to resemble the dignitaries visiting her court.

So popular was gingerbread that the fairs became known as Gingerbread Fairs, and the gingerbread biscuits were named ‘fairings.’ As the fairs took place throughout the year the shapes of the gingerbread changed with the seasons: flowers in the spring and leaves in the autumn.

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The gingerbread houses we know today originated in Germany during the 16th century. Bakers created elaborate buildings were decorated with foil and white icing in addition to gold leaf. The Brothers Grimm penned the story of Hansel and Gretel, who discover a house made entirely of sweet treats, deep in the forest, but it’s unclear whether the popularity of gingerbread houses were a result of the fairy tale, or whether the fairy tale borrowed from an already established tradition.

Quite why gingerbread became associated with Christmas is also unclear but is probably due to a number of factors. Christmas markets were big ‘whole town’ events, and gingerbread is easy to make, and keeps well, so it’s ideal for selling on a stall. It’s likely that the combination of white icing and foil decoration was easily adaptable to create miniature snow-covered dwellings which provided pretty centrepieces for the festive dinner tables of middle-class households.

The longevity and structural integrity of gingerbread also lends itself well to creating edible decorations for hanging on trees or giving as gifts. Historically diets of ordinary people were simple and bland because sugar was an expensive luxury. People could only afford to splash out on ingredients for cakes, biscuits, and sweets occasionally, and Christmas was the time when even less well-off people spent a little extra on fancy food and drink.

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Whatever its history, gingerbread is now firmly entwined with the festive season, from sweet little gingerbread reindeer to gingerbread lattes, the sight, smell, and taste of gingerbread is synonymous with Christmas.

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2. Add the mixture to a pan and simmer for 2 minutes whisking constantly.

3. Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolate. Whisk the mixture until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth.

4. Whisk in the cocoa powder and vanilla, and reheat over a low heat until hot.

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