[Sca-cooks] plum pudding
Sue Clemenger
mooncat at in-tch.com
Sun Nov 21 16:03:22 PST 2004
I always thought of them as a victorian thing, myself, but I sure could
be wrong.
Oddly enough, at the first feast for which I was largely responsible
(actually the event steward, but the cook was out of town for christmas
break during most of the prep), I did flaming plum puddings. ah, memories!
--maire
Mary Morman wrote:
> gentle friends,
> i am cooking a 12th night feast with an Elizabethan theme and intend to
> serve a flaming plum pudding to high table. i realize that this is not
> precisely in period, and will be sure to tell people that, but i'm going
> to do it anyway. can someone help me with EXACTLY how out of period it
> will be? i'm remembering Laura Mason's talk at the Leeds Conference on
> Food two years ago, and thinking that I'm "prevericating" by probably
> less than a hundred years. elaina
>
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