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This little guy started life as a pen topper, but I decided he needed to sit on his own little tookus.
Bought from JanetStore (in pen form)
24 Days of Christmas - Day 16
I guess you can tell, it's not a real Christmas Pudding :)) It's part of a Christmas display at Scotney Castle (National Trust) and the theme of the room is "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" by Agatha Christie.
Winter has come. The cats are cold. They cuddle under the blankets to stay warm. Love these cats so much. They bring so much joy to so many.
This is a vintage Christmas embossed postcard, copyrighted 1908 by Julius Bien & Co. N.Y.
The postcard features an illustration of Santa Claus with a white beard, wearing a red hat and a holly wreath. Santa is holding a plate with a large, decorated Christmas pudding (or plum pudding).
The text "A MERRY CHRISTMAS" is visible on the plate.
The card number "5004" is printed in the bottom left corner.
Christmas pudding and plum pudding are essentially two names for the same dish: a dense, steamed dessert made from dried fruits, spices, and suet. The name "plum pudding" is an older term. In pre-Victorian English, the word "plum" was used as a general term for all kinds of dried fruits, such as raisins, currants, and sultanas, not the fresh stone fruit we call a plum today. The dish is traditionally prepared weeks or even months in advance to allow the flavors to mature, often involving family members stirring the mixture and making a wish. On Christmas Day, it is usually served warm, doused in brandy, and set alight for a dramatic presentation.
Santa Claus looks excited in the image because, in the context of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the Christmas pudding was a highly anticipated and significant part of the Christmas feast, symbolizing family unity, abundance, and joy.
Symbolism and Tradition:
A Prized Delicacy: The Christmas pudding was the centerpiece of the festive table and a rich dessert made with expensive, imported ingredients like sugar, spices, and dried fruits that were not everyday fare for most people at the time.
Anticipation and Ritual: The making and serving of the pudding was tied to numerous family rituals and superstitions, such as every family member taking a turn to stir and make a wish, or the excitement of finding a hidden silver coin for good luck.
Culminating Moment: The moment the pudding was ceremoniously brought to the table—often doused in brandy and set alight (flambéed) for a dramatic display—was a moment of great excitement and the celebratory culmination of the meal.
Joyful Imagery: Postcards from this era often depicted a jolly and enthusiastic Santa, as this aligned with the overall joyful and abundant themes promoted by Christmas imagery, a stark contrast to some earlier, more austere depictions of Father Christmas. Santa's expression, therefore, reflects the genuine excitement and shared happiness that the pudding represented to families during the Christmas celebration in the early 20th century.
Twas the Night before Christmas: Even in the iconic 1823 poem that helped shape the modern Santa, the description of his "cheeks... like roses" and "nose like a cherry" has been interpreted by some as suggesting a ruddy complexion from drink, though the modern interpretation is that his jolliness comes from the Christmas spirit, not alcohol.
The tradition of leaving food for Santa Claus has ancient origins in European folklore, though the modern American custom of cookies and milk became popular in the 1930s.
Historical Roots - Ancient Norse Mythology: One of the earliest roots of this practice dates back to ancient Norse mythology. During the midwinter Yule festival, children would leave food, such as hay or carrots, for the god Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, hoping Odin would stop by and leave gifts in return.
Dutch Tradition: The custom also stems from the Dutch celebration of the Feast of St. Nicholas on December 6. Children would leave their shoes out the night before with treats for St. Nicholas and his attendants, who were believed to be traveling long distances, and wake up to find them filled with gifts.
Modern American Tradition - The specific tradition of leaving out cookies and milk for Santa Claus became widespread in the United States during the Great Depression in the 1930s. At a time of economic hardship, parents encouraged this practice as a way to: Teach children about the importance of gratitude and giving to others, even when they had very little themselves. Reinforce a sense of hope and the spirit of generosity during a difficult period. The dairy industry later used marketing campaigns to promote milk as the ideal accompaniment to Santa's cookies, helping to solidify the tradition in American culture.
HMM (possibility)...the theme for macromondays for 5/13 is "a spoonful" and one must stay within the parameters of size while still showing at least a portion of the bowl of the spoon and the contents. if i decide to go with this one, i may crop it down just a little, although it is under 3 inches in all directions. the theme's explanation can be found here:
www.flickr.com/groups/macromonday/discuss/72157691314167623/
when i spotted this tray of bead pudding, i was immediately transported back to a memory of my dad who had this story/joke that he never really finished telling because it would crack him up every time he tried ~grin~
ANSH scavenger14 "In the centre"
I think my wife's piggy pudding is the shiznit in cold weather.
Take about a dozen small breakfast sausages and brown them up. Put them in the bottom of a square baking pan. Take about three peeled sliced green apples and layer them on top of the sausages. Mix up your favorite corn bread mix and cover the sausage and apples with it.
Bake according to the instructions on the cornbread mix. I used 450 f for 35 minutes.
When cool enough to eat, slice out a chunk, slather in real maple syrup and gobble down.
Yum.
fresh batch of slow cooker sticky toffee pudding
sticky toffee pudding slowcooker you tube recipe www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYBFbe7UM0
sticky toffee pudding print slowcooker recipe slowcookingperfected.com/slow-cooker-sticky-date-pudding/...
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat healthily
www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ helps to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
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Vanille-Grießflammeri mit Zwetschgensoße und Erdbeeren
Semolina pudding with vanilla - not your school dinner pudding of nightmares past!
Our Pudding Looking out of the guardrails to see what is out there. Brave boy. We are on the fourth floor. He probably won't jump.
pudding in the garden on his favourite pillow. dear pudding has first stage problem kidneys. the main difficulty for me is getting him to eat. at the moment i'm on a winner with gourmet revelations chicken www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/gourmet-revelations-adult... long may his liking for this food continue
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
Giga Pudding, mais uma da TAKARA(alguém pode me dizer se estou confundindo com a Takara das Blythes)??? vídeo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sEI1AUFJKw
matéria: Custa apenas 30 doletas + frete!
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On the street outside the Pudding Factory in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England.
This mango pudding recipe is from Kelara Vusoniwailala and in a cookbook, Me'a Kai: The Food and Flavors of the South Pacific. It's also on the website here: www.lifestylefood.com.au/recipes/16545/kelara-vusoniwaila.... I used the most flavorful types of mango, Alphonse and honey mangos. It looks simple, but so delicious.
sticky toffee pudding and custard
a portion of sticky toffee pudding removed from the freezer, thawed and reheated in the mini countertop oven
slowcooker sticky toffee pudding www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYBFbe7UM0
pot of custard removed from the freezer and reheated in a saucepan with some extra milk
just one thing with michael mosley
food special with professor tim spector
7 days 30 different plant based foods
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ngjx
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...
i've created a group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
He freaks me out a number of times when he's asleep now that he's ill. He's so still! Heh, I remember the feel of holding Tofu when she only just passed away, the jelly like frailty of it all. Pudding sleeps so soundly that if it wasn't for the belly moving ever so slightly with every beat of his heart, I'd think that he's left me. Meh.
Mm, Dumpling and Sushi will hate to be in this position (too insecure). Not little Pudding. Hee, hope he'll still like sleeping on my palm when he's fully recovered.
(more health update here)
13Nov update:
Pudding and I (with Andora for her tooth check) just came back from the vet. Got more of his antifungal medicines. Learnt that his heart attack (my guess, thanks to annia's input) could have been caused by his tooth clipping and/or the mole documentary on animal planet.
Mm, hope my little boy can continue to grow stronger everyday! :D I'm getting increasingly hopeful too. He's improved so much from last week!
Pudding has come a long way. Last week when the vet told me to come back in a week, I didn't make an appointment when I came out -- I was afraid that he wouldn't make it, and would result in me having to call and cancel the appointment because he died. I dreaded having to say that, and decided to just wait it out, and walk-in when it's one week. :) He made it!
The rock walls were contructed in 1930 by Ocar Dave from rocks found on the beach. These are called pudding rocks.
Yorkshire pudding is a baked pudding made from a batter of eggs, flour, and milk or water.[1] A common British side dish, it is a versatile food that can be served in numerous ways depending on its ingredients, size, and the accompanying components of the meal. As a first course, it can be served with onion gravy. For a main course, it may be served with meat and gravy, and is part of the traditional Sunday roast, but can also be filled with foods such as bangers and mash to make a meal. Sausages can be added to make toad in the hole.
At the end we had this, a very thin layer of pastry at the bottom with apple rings soaked in something very good and wonderful ice-cream on top.
We are now recovering and have no intension of having anything else to eat this evening!
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites.
As I have quite a lot of milk I thought I'd have a little "Mr Kipling" jam sponge pudding and custard.
The book is A Subaltern's Odyssey by R B Talbot Kelly. He was an artillery officer in the Great War. The book is illustrated with his very good sketches. I only paid £2.75 for it earlier this year via Abe books.
Ok, this time, it was me who had the pudding! A nice meal by the canal was finished off with Sticky Toffee Pudding, one of only a handful of desserts I bother with. I would normally have custard with this, but it was listed on the menu as coming with gingerbread ice-cream, so thought I would give it a go. Will ask for custard next time though!
freshly cooked sticky toffee pudding, iced raspberry chia sauce and shop bought natural yoghurt
sticky toffee pudding slowcooker you tube recipe www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYBFbe7UM0
sticky toffee pudding print slowcooker recipe slowcookingperfected.com/slow-cooker-sticky-date-pudding/...
raspberry chia sauce flic.kr/p/2nhbFP3
how to make jam/sauce with any fruit using chia seeds www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-easy-chia-jam-with-any-frui...
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat healthily
www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ helps to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
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With Trenitalia taking an involvement in the running of the WCML from today I find it apt to post something featuring their other UK operation - c2c. The chosen example is 357020 passing Pudding Mill Lane DLR station with 9B09 from SHoeburyness to Liverpool St via Barking & Stratford.
Trenitalia has been the operator of the c2c franchise since 2017 - managing the day-to-day running of services between London Fenchurch St and Shoeburyness. They claim to be one of the UK's most punctual and popular train services and boast about their award winning status on their website.
Trenitalia is the passenger rail arm of the Italian state operator - FS Italiane. They were brought into the First group West Coast bid as the specification demanded an operator with high speed rail experience, which they have gained through the Frecciarossa network in Italy.
They seem to be getting on fine with this operation, but the West Coast Main Line is in a totally different league in comparison. As a common user of the WCML route I can only hope they are a success and maintain - or improve upon - the high level of service provided by the Virgin group.