Creole recipe

When December approaches, Christmas is an occasion for delightful treats. Sit down to a chicken fricassée, a gratin de christophines, home-made petits pâtés, tropical fruit jams and coulis, topped off by a coconut blanc-manger, followed by shrubb, a liquor made from orange peel and sunshine. The New Year is a time for paying visits and for sharing warm accras and glasses of more rum and vermouth. It is said that a dip in the sea at year's end will bring new beginnings and comfort you from the tyranny of life.