Yule Log

The Tradition of the Yule Log
Is your Yule Log a fireplace tradition or a holiday dessert?
This lens has links to the history of the Yule Log (the fireplace version), lots of recipes for how to bake modern Yule Log Cakes (the delicious holiday dessert version), a video Yule Log to download for your iPod (just the thing for travelers or the digerati), where to find a Yule log screensaver and much more! Here's a picture of my very own 2010 yule log. Further down the lens I tell you how you can make a yule log that burns with different colors!

The Yule Log
A Yule log, sometimes known as the Great Ashen Faggot, is a large log which is burned in the hearth as a part of traditional Yule or Christmas celebrations in some cultures. It can be a part of the Winter Solstice festival or the Twelve Days of Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Twelfth Night. The expression "Yule log" has also come to refer to log-shaped Christmas cakes, also known as "chocolate logs." Information from Wikipedia

Tales Of Ye Ol' Yule Log
Almost all of our Christmas festivities come from Norse origins, 1000s of years before Jesus was born. The central tradition to all of this was the Yule Log tree. For many of us this has now split into the traditions of Christmas tree and that yummy chocolate and nut coated cake we now call a Yule Log. In this feature we will cruise around the Northern Hemishere searching for the origins of the Yule Log tradition, and how this has evolved different traditions and celebrations in several coun...