
I lost a coat, you may remember I bought a new winter jacket the other day, however, Thursday it was pretty chilly so decided to wear

We were discussing Christmas. The bowling alley is open on Boxing Day (December 26 for Americans) which happens to be a Thursday when four of us usually get together to bowl. However, one friend said he couldn’t come and Matt figured it would probably be extremely busy that day so we ended up inviting our other friend to dinner that evening instead of bowling. Our Christmas lunch at the bowling alley will be on December 16. The following Monday was a bit too close to Christmas.
I can’t believe Christmas is so close. Someone on the street outside our apartment has already turned on his lights. Think he left them up all year!!! It’s way to early in my opinion. I checked in our grocery store yesterday, I

If you haven’t made a pudding yet, here is the recipe I always used from Mrs. Beeton’s cookery book. The copy I have, as I have mentioned before, is about 79 years old. I have 8 servings listed, but this is such a rich pudding, you will find people only eat a very small amount of it.
Christmas Pudding - Mrs. Beeton
1/2 lb suet

2 oz flour
1/2 lb raisins
1/4 lb mixed peel
1/2 a grated nutmeg
1/2 oz mixed spice
1/2 oz ground cinnamon
10 oz milk
1 wineglass brandy or rum
1/2 lb breadcrumbs
1/2 lb sultanas
1/2 lb currants
1 lemon
2 oz shredded almonds
4 eggs
1 pinch salt
1. Put all the dry ingredients in a basin and mix well. Add the milk, stir in the eggs one at a time, add the liquor and the strained juice of the lemon. Work the whole thoroughly for some minutes, so that the ingredients are well blended. Put the mixture in a well greased basin. Boil for about 4 hours or steam for at least 5 hours.
Servings: 8
Have a great day
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The pudding sounds delicious. Funny about your coat. I lost my glasses last Thursday. I only wear them when I go grocery shopping and cannot figure out what I did with them. Guess I'll just have to squint.
ReplyDeleteIt was funny. I have no doubt they will turn up.
DeleteThe pudding is delicious but just not worth it for two of us.
I'm really such a Bah Humbug person and hate all the Christmas stress. Maybe I'd feel differently if we werent' bombarded with Christmas adverts, music, commercial hype 3 months before the event.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your bowling score!! We're having our second 'short mat bowls' session tomorrow evening at the local village hall. We enjoyed the first session but weren't very good as we have to slow our bowling down by about 99% .... we have three free-of-charge evenings before deciding whether to join - its great fun and we don't have to commit to regular league nights which is what scuppered our Tenpin bowling activities as we travel so much through the winter.
Oops sorry to rattle on.... glad you found your coat and hope you blamed Matt for putting it away in the wrong room
I love Christmas. Less now there are just the two of us, but my mother was a great Christmas person and I guess she passed it on to me.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of short mat bowls, indoor I presume. Sounds interesting.
I did blame Matt, but I didn't tell him so.
There have been stores here selling Christmas stuff since the beginning of October. It makes me sad.
ReplyDeleteNot sure ours started quite that early, but still way too soon.
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