I didn’t feel there was any other choice possible given that the blog is full of Christmas books this month… That’s an old custom, sir, and I’ve always held to it… The young gentlemen, Miss Bridget and the London gentleman who’s staying here, and his sister and Mr David and Miss Diana – Mrs Middleton, I should say – all had a stir they did.’Ĭommentary: This is my book of 1960 for Rich Westwood’s Crime of the Century over at Past Offences. Everyone in the house had to come out into the kitchen and have a stir and make a wish. As it was, that pudding was only made three days ago… However, I kept to the old custom. And so it should have been here this year. I mind now that when I was a child and we went to church every Sunday we’d start listening for the collect that begins “stir up O Lord we beseech thee” because that collect was the signal, as it were, that the pudding should be made that week. The longer they’re kept, within reason, the better they are. ‘A good Christmas pudding should be made some weeks before and allowed to wait. Mrs Ross was the queen of the kitchen quarters…
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