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"There are lots of things I want," Frank began, but Roy interrupted him. "There is only one thing in the world that is better than anything else," he said. "And that?" the others queried breathlessly. "Plum pudding!" He pronounced the two words with the reverence due them. Grace stared at him in amazement. "How did you know?" she stammered. "It's almost uncanny."
A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that! That was the pudding! 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-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top. Oh, a wonderful pudding!
'I can only think of sitting down on one condition, returned his friend; 'and that is, that your sister goes on with the pudding, as if you were still alone. 'That I am sure she will, said Tom. 'On one other condition, and that is, that you stay and help us to eat it.
Having heard that it was on the kitchen table, "he took me by the hand, and ran with me into the midst of the startled servants, seized what remained of the pudding, and with the plate in one hand and me still tight in the other, ran till we reached the dust-heap, where he flung the idolatrous confectionery on to the middle of the ashes, and then raked it deep down into the mass.
They were otherwise associated in my memory with a long succession of Christmases, when holly berries enlivened their frames and peeped over the walls of the pew where my elders drowsed, and my coevals were sustained during the sermon by visions of the plum pudding and crackers which would reward them in a near hereafter.
So they go into the dining-room. "Aunt Minnie, children." Slowly the knives and forks sink from the upright. Halfway through luncheon one of those shivers; Bob stares at her, spoon in mouth. "Get on with your pudding, Bob;" but Hilda disapproves. "Why should she twitch?" The looking-glass no, you avoid the looking-glass. Some methodical disposition of hat-pins.
To make a quaking PUDDING another Way. Take a pint of cream, boil it with one stick of cinnamon, take out the spice when it is boiled, then take the yolks of eight eggs, and four whites, beat them very well with some sack, and mix your eggs with the cream, a little sugar and salt, half a penny wheat loaf, a spoonful of flour, a quarter of a pound of almonds blanch'd and beat fine, beat them altogether, wet a thick cloth, flour it, and put it in when the pot boils; it must boil an hour at least; melted butter, sack and sugar is sauce for it; stick blanch'd almonds and candid orange-peel on the top, so serve it up.
If the pudding is boiled, add a little more tapioca and boil it in a buttered basin one and a half hours. This makes a most delightful dessert. Soak over night a large teacupful of tapioca in cold water; in the morning, put half of it in a buttered yellow-ware baking-dish, or any suitable pudding-dish.
In the mean time, make a batter as if for a pudding, of eight table-spoonfuls of sifted flour stirred gradually into a quart of milk, six eggs well beaten and added by degrees to the mixture, and a very little salt.
"Please we've brought some pudding for the poor people." He looked us up and down, and he looked at our basket, then he said: "You'd better see the Matron." We waited in a hall, feeling more and more uncomfy, and less and less like Christmas. We were very cold indeed, especially our hands and our noses.
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