Toyland® 16cm Animated Christmas Character - Singing & Spinning Feature - Novelty Toys/Decoration (Pudding)

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The collect for the Sunday before Advent in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer begins with the words "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works. In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered – flushed, but smiling proudly – with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quarter of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.

Christmas pudding - Wikipedia Christmas pudding - Wikipedia

Hundreds of years ago, meat, grains, fat, spices, and fruits were all packed together in sausage casings to help preserve the food as long as possible.Christmas pudding is sweet, dried-fruit pudding traditionally served as part of Christmas dinner in Britain and other countries to which the tradition has been exported. Then as now, the “plum” in plum pudding was a generic term for any dried fruit—most commonly raisins and currants, with prunes and other dried, preserved or candied fruit added when available. To Cromwell and his Puritan associates, such merry-making smacked of Druidic paganism and Roman Catholic idolatry. Prior to the 19th century, the English Christmas pudding was boiled in a pudding cloth, and often represented as round. By the mid-1600s, plum pudding was sufficiently associated with Christmas that when Oliver Cromwell came to power in 1647 he had it banned, along with Yule logs, carol-singing and nativity scenes.

Christmas pudding recipes | BBC Good Food Christmas pudding recipes | BBC Good Food

We won't go until we get some, we won't go until we get some, we won't go until we get some, so bring it right here.Pudding predecessors often contained meat, as well as sweet ingredients, and prior to being steamed in a cloth the ingredients may have been stuffed into the gut or stomach of an animal, like haggis or sausages. Other tokens are also known to have been included, such as a tiny wishbone (to bring good luck), a silver thimble (for thrift) or an anchor (to symbolise safe harbour). In her bestselling 1845 book Modern Cookery for Private Families, [14] the East Sussex cook Eliza Acton was the first to refer to it as "Christmas Pudding".

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The origins of each ingredient were carefully manipulated to represent some of the Empire's many colonies. In 1885 a British newspaper reported the joyful consumption of a plum pudding—sent overland via special envoy from Tehran—by a group of British soldiers stationed in northwestern Afghanistan.It was a moulded dessert, cooked in boiling water for several hours, and served with a sweet wine sauce. It has its origins in medieval England, with early recipes making use of dried fruit, suet, breadcrumbs, flour, eggs and spice, along with liquid such as milk or fortified wine. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that.