New Year’s Eve

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It is the morning on New Years Eve. The pigs are preparing for the evening party.

Grunting with her mother want to welcome the New Year with good food. They are making gingerbread cookies for the whole village. Belly likes cooking and her daughter likes it too.

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These are the ingredients which they are using:

2 ¼     cups wholemeal
¾        cup xylitol (very healthy and sweet substance)
½        glass of grape seed oil
2          teaspoons spices (ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, coriandercardamom, pepper and anise)
3-5      tablespoons of icy water
½        teaspoon of baking powder
pinch   salt

First they mix everything in the food processor and they put the dough in the fridge. Then they roll the dough and cut out the cookies. Of course they make pig-shaped cookies. But not only, other shapes too. They bake the cookies in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for ten minutes. At the end they decorate the gingerbread cookies with colourful icing.

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When Grunting and Belly are working, Kermit takes out some pig shaped cookies from the cupboard.

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Hippie and Elvis are preparing some other dishes too. Pillowy and Cushy are helping them. Arnold with his family are preparing interesting drinks. The girls form the village are decorating the houses with balloons and streamers. The boys are preparing firecrackers and fireworks. They want to welcome the New Year with a lot of noise and colourful patterns in the sky.

Finally the party can start. The food is great, the houses are beautiful, the pigs look pretty.

The party is taking place at Belly and Kermit’s house. Everybody is having fun when the New Year comes. The clock strikes midnight and everybody makes toasts with sparkling juice. The pigs give best wishes to each other. Then they go out to admire the firecrackers and fireworks. The boys are very excited, it is their part of the evening.

Everything is going on well when it happens…

One firecracker is lit, but it doesn’t go off. Everybody is watching it at some distance. Still nothing. Suddenly Trixie runs towards the firecracker. He wants to check what is going on.

– Noooo! cries Hippie, his mother.

But it is too late… The firecracker goes off and it hurts Trixie. He is squealing with pain. Hippie faints. Arnold quickly takes Trixi to his house. The adults help Hippie to come to.

Trixie is scared. He is crying loudly. Arnold exams him carefully. He gives him the medicines and dresses his wounds. Fortunatelly they are not very serious.

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Everybody is very sad. They end the party. The adults tell the children:

– Remember, you can never walk up to a firecracker. If it doesn’t start, you must wait at least 15 minutes.

– We promise! say the children.

This is how the New Year starts in Gruntland…

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