 Like "ashure", the Christmas Pudding may be garnished with pomegranate seeds and flavored with rose water, and shared with neighbors during the Christmas season.This festive pudding is the centerpiece of the New Year's table, which is often decorated with dried fruits, nuts and pomegranates.In "The Art of Armenian Cooking", Rose Baboian describes three methods of making the pastry sheets for "baklava", noting that this pastry is one of the most difficult to make from scratch.