My mother who just turned 96 and has an excellent memory, was in Toronto at Christmas and talked about Christmas "at home" in Aberfeldy, Perthshire. She said that they would have a beef stew and as a special treat her mother would put sausage in it. That's it - no tree, no presents. The family was Wee Free or Baptists. I believe she said that Christmas and Boxing day were not holidays (unless they fell on a weekend) and she worked those days. She is a very good source of local history in Aberfeldy, and emigrated to Canada in 1946.