Christmas Cheer -- 2011

Oft's Bed and Breakfast hosted a Christmas Party Wednesday night; about 25 guest showed up including two guests from DeMoines who stayed over night.  We served "Glogg" which is hot mulled wine, a Swedish Christmas drink; hot cider, finger foods and we made Annie Mohr's Pforden recipe.  Pforden is a round German fritter which is cooked in a special cast iron pan that has half ball depressions.  The depressions are half filled with grease and dough is spooned in.  As it cooks its gently rotated so it creates a round fritter. 

The hot fritters are removed in put in a sack with sugar and shaken and served hot. They are a traditional German holiday Treat!

We are considering serving them with fruit syrups and serving them next year for breakfast.  We'll see how that goes.

Everybody seems to have had a good time.  The ladies took over the dining room and the gentlemen gathered around to guard the 'Glogg' pot and discussed the problems of the world.  I don't think we solved any, but we had a good time finding the bottom of the Glogg pot. 

Paula, Lois, Maureen, Jean, and CoeLeta

Dick, Bill, Dale, Al and Diana making a hasty retreat!