Christmas pudding history and folk traditions

Описание: Christmas pudding is a staple of British Christmas dinners, even when half the family don’t like it, but what folk traditions have gathered around it, and can I find a source for my family’s own somewhat unusual Christmas pudding tradition?

00:00 Queen Victoria very good man
00:38 Christmas pudding recipes
05:24 History of Christmas pudding
10:18 Stir-up Sunday
14:43 Rhymes and songs
16:05 Serving Christmas pudding

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Recipes:

Ingredients for the Christmas scones leftovers recipe:

450g self-raising flour
55g caster sugar
1/2 tsp mixed spice
55g butter
125g leftover Christmas pudding
250ml milk
1 tbsp brandy (optional)

The National Trust Book of Scones: https://amzn.eu/d/7NU9XML

Max Miller, Tasting History: https://amzn.eu/d/b5pfiFy

The Forme of Cury, rendered into modern English by Glyn Hughes: https://amzn.eu/d/fCL8xeX

Watch Max Miller’s video on Christmas pudding here:    • Figgy Pudding | A Victorian Christmas Trad...  

Books and sources:

Ben Gazur, A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food: https://amzn.eu/d/1WzSarI

Diane Purkiss, English Food: A Social History of England Told Through The Food On Its Tables: https://amzn.eu/d/5XGIXgp

Steven Roud, The English Year: https://amzn.eu/d/ix1BkfS

Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun: https://amzn.eu/d/27Qxxlg

Thomas F. Thiselton Dyer, British Popular Customs: Present and Past: https://amzn.eu/d/iuCgISu

Judith Flanders, Christmas: A History: https://amzn.eu/d/0x6OpTD

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https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...

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"Oh, a wonderful pudding!" (1905), a half-page line-drawing as the head-piece for Stave Three, "The Second of the Three Spirits,", via https://www.victorianweb.org/art/illu...

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A Christmas Carol illustration, 1900: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

Christmas card: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Lottie Collins performing: Unknown artist; scanned 2021 by Ristesson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Idries Shah and Robert Graves, Mallorca 1965: Secretum Mundi, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim: Robert Milne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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