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!
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!
Your Yule Log guide
What Is A Yule Log?
Customs and History of the Yule Log in Europe and America
Over time, the word "yule" has become associated with both Christmas and the Winter Solstice. You'll find Yule Log traditions that relate to both holidays and which have Pagan and Christian traditions attached to them depending on the time period and culture from which the specific ritual originated. The more you read about Yule logs, the more you realize that burning a ritual log at the darkest time of the year whether for warmth, light, gathering or symbolism is one of the oldest human customs.
May Your Yule Log Burn Brightly and Long!
May Your Yule Log Burn Brightly and Long!
- The Yule Log
- There is a custom that on Christmas Eve an enormous log of freshly cut wood called the Yule log would be fetched and carried to the house with great ceremony.
- The Yule Log
- While most people have heard of the Yule Log, few people realize that its tradition can be traced back to the days of the pagan Norsemen, or Vikings.
- Yule log - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- A Yule log is a large log which is burned in the hearth as a part of traditional Yule or Christmas celebrations in some cultures.
- The Yule Log
- The Yule log symbolizes the light returning to conquer the darkness. According to tradition, the log must either have been harvested from the householder's land, or given as a gift.
- The Yule Log by Tomm Larson
- Need an excuse for a Christmas party? How about a "traditional" excuse. If this year's party is already planned, add this old tradition to it. Burning a Yule log is probably the oldest Christmas tradition there is.
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: Holidays (Yule Log)
- The origins of the yule log.
- Christmas, Yule and the Winter Solstice
- Past and Present Festivals of Britain
- Christmas Customs and Traditions -- The Yule Log
- The custom of the Yule Log spread all over Europe and different kids of wood are used in different countries. In England, Oak is traditional; in Scotland, it is Birch; while in France, it is Cherry. Also, in France, the log is sprinkled with wine, before it is burnt, so that it smells nice when it is lit.
- The Yule Log
- The Yule log is an winter holiday tradition that was observed by many European cultures. This ritual fire was held on the longest night of the year.
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Yule Accoutrements
yule log DVDs and books with recipes and traditions
Make a Yule Log that burns with Colored Flames
add some colors to your holiday fire
There is a way to make a fancy yule log that will burn with different colors. What you do is take a well-seasoned (nice and dry), thick log and bore several holes into it, a couple of inches deep. I used my grandpa's hand auger as it had a larger bit on the end of it than the largest one my dad had for his drill. The larger the holes, the more chemicals you can put in there and the bolder the colored flames will be. Be careful not to drill too deeply.
Once you have the holes, save the shavings. You'll need those in a bit. Put the chosen chemical(s) into the holes. Then you take the shavings, mix them with a bit of water and flour until you have a woody paste and then use that to seal over the holes so that the powdered chemicals don't spill out. Let the paste dry well.
When you burn your yule log, and the fire burns through the paste sealing the holes, it will ignite the chemicals and you'll get colored flames!
Some of the things that work can be found around the house, like epsom salts (bright white) or Borax (yellow-green) or sodium chloride aka table salt (yellow) but if you want to have a full spectrum, you may have to order chemicals online or go to specialty shops. For things like red (strontium chloride) or blue (copper chloride) or purple (potassium chloride), it's worth it!
Baking A Yule Log Cake
Recipes and Dessert Variations
- Classic Yule Log
- "A festive holiday cake. Merry Christmas! You will need cinnamon red hard candies and snowmen candy for decorations." Original recipe yield: 10 servings
- Chocolate Praline Yule Log Recipe
- Step by step for rolled log cake complete with meringue mushrooms. Excellent follow-along pictures along with cooking instructions.
- How to Make a Yule Log
- Make a Yule Log This traditional dessert, also called a buche de Noël, is a chocolate cake rolled up with a filling and frosted to resemble a real holiday yule log. The steps are time-consuming but not really difficult. This recipe makes one log, which should feed up to 15 people.
- Bake a Yule Log Cake!
- Get recipes and great tips for baking your own holiday Yule Log Cake, plus tips for how to do all the fancy frosting to make it look like a real log!
- Buche de Noel
- Buche de Noel / Yule Log, RECIPE - Yields: 2 Yule Log cakes, Components: 1- Sponge Roll recipe, 1- Pastry Cream recipe and 1- Chocolate whipped cream recipe
- Snowy Yule Log Recipe on The Worldwide Gourmet
- A traditional recipe as served at the Sucrerie de la Montagne in Rigaud. The yule log is the traditional dessert in Quebec for Christmas evening. Though it takes some time and patience to make, it can be prepared a day ahead and kept cold until serving time.
- Chocolate Yule Log
- A recipe for Chocolate Yule/Christmas log, cover sponge with chocolate cream then place a sprig of holly (real or fake) on one end.
- Making a Yule Log Cake with Pastry Chef Jean Francois Houdre
- Making a Yule Log Cake with Pastry Chef Jean Francois Houdre, part of the Winter Holidays celebration at Fabulous Foods, the net's favorite cooking community, covering Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and Yule with recipes, crafts and much more.
- No-Bake Chocolate Yule Log with Chocolate Mushrooms
- "Assemble an impressive yule log with chocolate wafers, marmalade and whipped cream, garnished with chocolate 'mushrooms' of kisses topped with nonpareils." Original recipe yield: 10 servings
- The Vegetarian Society - chocolate, brandy and hazelnut yule log
- If the thought of rolling a roulade is too complicated for you, leave the sponge to cool, trim the edges then cut into three pieces. Divide the brandy cream and cherries into four and layer up the sponge with cream and cherries in between. Top with cream and use the last portion to pipe rosettes around the edge. Decorate with cherry halves and grated chocolate. Serves 6-8
- Chocolate Yule Log Cake - vegan recipe
- Chocolate Yule Log Cake (for people who can't do swiss roll!!
- Non-Dairy Yule Log Cake
- A non-diary yule cake recipe from vegsource.com
- Where's the fat Yule Log
- A fat-free recipe for baking a yule log cake
Yule Log Pictures
how do you log your Yule?
Cake? Fire? Something else? See how other people work yule logs into their holidays.
Download Yule Log Videos & Screensavers
all the visuals with none of the mess
- Portable Yule Log!
- Download a Portable Yule Log for you iPod from CW11 New York/WPIX-TV
- WM Bonus Pack for Windows XP - Visualizations
- includes the Yule Log Visualization, which lets you enjoy the pops and flares of a traditional Yule log on the fire, synchronized to your music.
- Winter Wonders - Yule Log Screensaver
- Cozy up to our exclusive animated Yule Log screensaver which includes video footage and sounds from a real crackling fireplace. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the sights and sounds of your own roaring fire.
Get a Great Yule Log DVD
![The Yule Log - Christmas by the Fireplace [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mF4WeWCRL._SL160_.jpg)
The Yule Log - Christmas by the Fireplace [Blu-ray]
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Yule Log Mania!
- YuleLog Ornament Collection Data Base and Price Guide for Hallmark Christmas Orrnament Collectors
- Software to Catalog your Hallmark ornament collection. Up to date price guides, pictures, descriptions. PLUS, the Best Collectors Buy/Sell/Trade Boards on the Net, Hallmark Christmas Ornaments, Hallmark Series Ornaments
- Yule Log Resort
- The Yule Log Resort is the only resort in the Christmas-AuTrain area located on the shoreline of Lake Superior.
- Yule Log Cabin Quilt
- this quilt has a sophisticated country look, but you can use any color combination you desire.
- New York Daily News - Forever ember: 'Yule Log' story
- Generations have sat raptly in front of the television on Christmas Day, mesmerized by a holiday classic: "The Yule Log." Now, for the first time in the storied log's 40-year history, secrets of the burning timber will be revealed. WPIX/Ch. 11 presents "The WPIX Yule Log: A Log's Life," Dec. 23 at 7 p.m.
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Yuletide Greetings!
Let us know how your Yule fire or log cake was a part of the holiday!
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CelticWays
Dec 15, 2011 @ 7:20 pm | delete
- A lot of ideas I had forgotten and some very new to me. Very nice lens indeed :-)
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SandyPeaks
Dec 23, 2010 @ 6:10 pm | delete
- A little difficult to burn with central heating - so it's the chocolate one for me! Blessed by a SquidAngel.
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tvyps
Dec 15, 2010 @ 1:09 am | delete
- I am still looking for this year's Yule Log on TV, I would have it on right now if available! Nice lens!
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JaguarJulie
Dec 6, 2010 @ 12:59 pm | delete
- Ah, yuletide greetings to you my dear and a very Merry Christmas!
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Thorne
Dec 11, 2008 @ 10:21 pm | delete
- We use a piece of charcoal from the previous year's Solstice Celebration to kindle each year's Yule Log. Each year's log is decorated with pine cones and branches, and anointed with various oils. I began this family tradition in 1988, and each of my children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews as well as numerous friends have taken a piece of our tradition and made it their own.
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Blu-Ray Yule Log
The Yule Log - Christmas by the Fireplace [Blu-ray]
Amazon Price: $5.05 (as of 02/17/2012)
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