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From: "Watchdog" <>
Subject: RE: [GALWAY] Christmas Pudding
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:58:55 +1100
In-Reply-To: <18f.c98220.2952b7e2@aol.com>


My mother-in-law makes it and puts it straight into the bowl then covers it
with foil. We have to steam it for about an hour before using it. She
still makes a ritual out of pudding making every year. She calls back all
the bowls and puts aside a day to do it. But I remember my mother and my
great aunt making puddings, wrapping them in calico and hanging them from
the ceiling. I'm not sure of the significance of that, unless it is to aid
fermentation or something. I don't know why they'd bother, they were so
loaded with alcohol nothing would send them off! Until decimal currency
came in during the 1960s, we used to get sixpence and threepences in the
pudding. Unfortunately the new currency leaked metals. Ever resourceful,
the women in my family wrapped the money in small amounts of aluminium foil
and put them in as normal. I still remember my mother trying to make sure
everyone got one. In the end, I think she would just wait until she was
dishing up the pudding and then sneak one into each bowl. Sometimes the
weather was so hot we would eat it with perspiration running down our
faces - hence the ice-cream.



Happy memories :)

Gale
Melbourne, Australia


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