Across the years and generations, during Christmas time, one might find elegant dining rooms in fine historic homes decorated with holly, magnolia, garlands of greenery, and red poinsettias. The mahogany table is set with polished silver and the fine china, laden with a Christmas feast. There on the sideboard would be the Huguenot Torte, a dessert that is festive, sumptuous, and a generations-long connection to those forty-five Huguenots who spent their Christmas of 1679 on the ocean, sailing towards a better life in Carolina.