Christmas Day Page for Norway

How does Norway celebrate                   
Christmas?                                                    
1. Families in Norway have a tradition to make baskets of colored paper to hang on a Christmas tree.
2. Every house has a Nisse, or a gnome that they put up around Christmas and the children bring it porridge.
3. On Christmas afternoon, children walk around, asking for Sand Kager, a special cookie.
4. A traditional Norwegian dinner consists of codfish, potatoes, porridge, gingerbread and punch.
5. In Norway, there is a gift-bearing little gnome or elf. Known as Julebukk, who appears as a goat-like creature. 

 Recipe For Krumkake                  
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
3 eggs, beaten
3-1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
dash salt
Mix first five ingredients by hand or with a fork. Then add vanilla and salt. Mix thoroughly.
Chill dough for an hour.
Place a 1-1/2 inch round ball of dough in the center of an krumkake iron. Gently push top down. Cook on one side for about 1 minute. Turn iron over and cook other side until golden.
Roll warm cookie on a 1-1/2 inch wooden dowel or cool flat.