A diary entry from Christmas 1963, written by a girl about your child’s age.

The morning after her family’s midnight party, Emma writes it all down: the trip to Tekka Market for Eurasian pie ingredients, the pineapple tarts baked on a charcoal oven, the prawn bostada and devil curry that covered the table.

What your child will learn

• Meets a diary as a way of writing, in a voice close to their own
• Eurasian dishes, and a Singapore Christmas as it was sixty years ago
• How families cooked before electricity was everywhere

About the series
One of five Illustrated Heritage Cookbooks, each following a child through the food of one of Singapore’s communities — Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali, a Peranakan party and a Eurasian Christmas.