E: 24/12 Stylist. 24 Days of Christmas Advent DAILY

lilias

Day 5

Win the Bumble and Bumble hair thickening range
http://www.stylist.co.uk/beauty/day-5-win-one-of-four-140-bumble-and-bumble-products-from-the-thickening-range

Answer - Make it Big

Jean_III

Day 6: Win a selection of jewellery worth £500 by Clarice Price Thomas

What is the name of Clarice's debut collection?

a) Horology
b) Time
c) Clocks

Jean_III

Day 7: Win £500 to spend at Oliver Bonas

What year did the first Oliver Bonas shop open?

a) 2010
b) 1992
c) 1993

Jean_III

:)Day 8: Win a £395 Mango bike and £100 on accessories

How many ways can you colour customise your Mango Bike?

a) Over 193 million
b) Over 191 million
c) Over 192 million

Jean_III

9 December: Win a Kenwood kMix Stand Mixer and accessories


The Yule Log cake was first made in which country?

a) England
b) Switzerland
c) France


This is the best answer I can find but if anyone has another answer please feel free to comment

createbeauty

Jean_III wrote: »

9 December: Win a Kenwood kMix Stand Mixer and accessories


The Yule Log cake was first made in which country?

a) England
b) Switzerland
c) France


This is the best answer I can find but if anyone has another answer please feel free to comment

This suggests England?

"The history of the Yule log cake stretches all the way back to Europe’s Iron Age, before the medieval era. Back then, Celtic Brits and Gaelic Europeans would gather to welcome the winter solstice at December’s end. People would feast to celebrate the days finally becoming longer, signaling the end of the winter season. To cleanse the air of the previous year’s events and to usher in the spring, families would burn logs decorated with holly, pinecones or ivy. Wine and salt were also often used to anoint the logs. Once burned, the log’s ashes were valuable treasures said to have medicinal benefits and to guard against evil. Some groups claimed the ashes would protect the bearer from lightning—an important quality at a time when houses (and most of the contents in them) were made of wood."

Some others suggest old Germanic tribes...
Not seen any mention of it originating in France or Switzerland though. Tough one.

Ke11iott

i agree its France

foodtimeline.org/christmasfood.html

Buche de Noel
Buche de Noel is one of many traditional cakes baked at Christmas. As the name suggests, it is of French origin. The name of this recipe literally translates as "Christmas log," referring to the traditional Yule log burned centuries past. The ingedients suggest the cake is most likely a 19th century creation. That's when thinly rolled sponge cakes filled with jam or cream and covered with buttercream icing begin to show up in European cook books. Marzipan and meringue, typically employed for decorative purposes, date to the Medieval Ages and the 17th century respectively. We find no person/place/company credited for having *invented* this particular confection.

"[In France] where the buche de Noel, a roll of light sponge cake, is covered in chocolate or coffee buttercream textured to resemble bark. The conceit is carried further by mounding the cream over small pieces of cake stuck to the main roll, to represent trimmed branches. The ends of the roll and the cut faces of the branches are finished with vanilla cream, imitating pale newly cut wood, and the whole is decorated with leaves made from icing, or meringue mushrooms."
---Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson, [Oxford University Press:Oxford] 1999 (p. 184)

I_luv_cats

Another one for France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log_%28cake%29


Place of origin: France

Jean_III

On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...?

a) 10 Ladies Dancing
b) 10 Lords a Leaping
c) 8 Maids a Milking

lucinad

http://www.stylist.co.uk/win/day-11-win-one-three-acer-tablets#image-rotator-1

on the eleventh day of christmas my true love sent to me:

answer: c) 11 Pipers Piping

Day 11: Win one of two Acer Iconia A3 tablets worth £200 each