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[Blk&GoldFan]

Currently waiting for my New Year Pretzel dough to rise.  Can't wait to smell that bread baking today.  The pretzel is a German tradition that is popular in this area and in my family.  Eating a piece of this bread at midnight or before breakfast on January 1 is said to bring good health and prosperity.  Sometimes we don't eat it until our pork and sauerkraut dinner so maybe that's why we haven't been too prosperous financially!!

Wondering if you have any family traditons for the New Year.

[LTT1]

@Blk&GoldFan

Black eyed peas and pork!

[Laura14]

I'm salivating over the pretzel.  I LOVE PRETZELS!   NYE is my sister's birthday and this year she is 40.  I am the resident baker in the family so this is her cake for tonight.  Gaudy but it does the job when you get home late from work and use what you got.  Besides it's chocolate fudge with milk chocolate icing and chocolate caramel salted truffles on top so no one will care after the first bite.

[beckyb1012]

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@LTT1 wrote:

@Blk&GoldFan

Black eyed peas and pork!

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I started on my Black eyed peas last night with dinner (and finished my Christmas Eve Tamales from the freezer with them) and will continue the pea eating until gone. 

I need all the good luck I can get!!  Topped off my dinner with a big old bowl of Blue Bell so that is good luck having that back in my life. 

Happy New Year everyone. 

Starting my holiday in about one hour when I leave the office at Noon!!!!

Had a Texas Tropic Christmas but looks to be a coolish Texas New Year.

[Blk&GoldFan]

That is great.  She will love that cake.  Have a great time celebrating her birthday and the New Year.

[Blk&GoldFan]

Okay, Southern Cooks....how do you do your black eyed peas for NY?

[Mothertrucker]

Blackeyed peas with hamhocks  for good luck, collard greens for "foldin' money" and cornbread...just because, I guess..That's what my Texan dad did, and that's what I do!

[Toppers]

In my family while growing up, we would eat a little bit of herring at Midnight on New Year's Eve, to ring in the New Year. It's for luck. It's a German tradition. 

My maternal Gramma would usually buy some creamed herring in sauce, and we would all have a little bit of it. 

[Laura14]

This is an Italian thing but my family scarfs down grapes at midnight.  I think it's for health and money and it has to be so many within the first minute.  I don't participate.  I just stand by and dial 9-1 in case someone chokes.  

[Mothertrucker]

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@Laura14 wrote:

This is an Italian thing but my family scarfs down grapes at midnight.  I think it's for health and money and it has to be so many within the first minute.  I don't participate.  I just stand by and dial 9-1 in case someone chokes.  

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My Cuban friend does thisl! 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight!