Twelfth Night is the night of the 6th, not the 5th... so you still have time to work out that recipe!

The superstition of taking down the decorations by then is like April Fools' day - when the government stole our 11 days back in the 1730wossnames, Christmas was celebrated on what is now the 6th Jan. Anyone who still had decorations up then was considered a fool for not complying with the new calendar.

Orthodox religions still celebrate the birth of Christ on 6th Jan, so there's a chance for another go at the recipe!

Of course, if we're going to be pedantic, the Church recognises that the season of Christmas ends on Feb 2nd with Candlemas - known to many now as Groundhog day... Another example of the early Church taking a pre-existing festival of Imbolc (or the Feast of the Lactating Sheep as the Daily Mail would have it) and bending it to their own terms.

LTS