My Swedish-American Lutheran church (now ELCA) still celebrates St. Lucia day on the closest Sunday to December 13. We always had hot coffee and cider, Lucia Buns and pepperkakor, a thin and crispy, highly spiced ginger cookie. My gram and the other older ladies would wear their ethnic costumes and the children would dress up and enter in a procession with one of the senior high school girls who would dress as St. Lucia, white robe, red sash, and burning wreath of candles. My sister didn't get around to making these buns this year, but to get in the mood she decided she might have to put their advent wreath on her head of a while :)

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