Today is the day you are supposed to make your Christmas
pudding. It is called “Stir-Up
Sunday”. I figure that if all that’s
involved is stirring, then even I ought to be able to do it.
There is a Christmas pudding recipe in a Delia Smith
book. It is quite a long recipe, but if
you take the big picture view you can précis it down to:
1 bag
of muesli + 1 bottle of rum + 1 jar of mixed spice
This seems to work OK.
We stir in a five-pence piece (pre-soaked in Dettol® – I am not stupid)
and leave it to steep for 24 hours.
Thus inspired, I turn to the Christmas shopping. It is only a month till the Big Day and there
is a lot going on at CIPA before then, so I have to start early. But Christmas shopping is easy these
days. I go online, find something that
looks reasonably edible, and order 36 of them.
Then, because I think I ought to help with the Christmas dinner too, I
go online, find a nice bottle of wine, and order 36 of them as well. Easy peasy.
I hope people like their fish pies.
24 November 2014
Nice porridge. Bit of
a festive flavour to it, actually. With
high notes of… mmm, Dettol.
Uh-oh.
Will my children believe me when I tell them that the steeping
process results in the addition of a plastic pot, some cellophane and a
Sainsbury’s® label?
– Possibly not, but then, they don’t believe that thing
about Father Christmas either. They say:
if Father Christmas were real he wouldn’t have brought us those beef lasagnes last year. I say: yes he would, I mean yes he did, and
he put reindeer meat in them specially.
And then everyone cries and refuses to eat lasagne ever again.
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