I remember when I was a little girl, I would always watch A
Christmas Carol movie to get into the spirit of the season. My favorite scene
was when Mrs. Cratchit brought out the plum pudding.
"Mrs Cratchit
left the room alone – too nervous to bear witnesses – to take the pudding up
and bring it in... Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the
copper which smells like a washing-day. That was the cloth. A smell like an
eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's
next door to that. That was the pudding. In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered
– flushed, but smiling proudly – with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball,
so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quarter of ignited brandy, and
bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top." Charles Dickens
Plum pudding, AKA Christmas pudding or Pud, is traditionally
served as part of the Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Although it contains no actual plums, it is traditionally composed of thirteen
ingredients, including dried fruits held together by egg and suet (yuck!) and
an array of spices. The pudding is usually aged for a month or even a year and
is prevented from spoiling due to the high alcohol content.
Last Christmas, I was inspired to explore my fascination. I
finally finished my painting, that has been sitting on my easel since December
2018, just in time for Spring. The last few months have been a time of great
transition for me. Now that my life is settling into a routine, I am hoping to
post my dessert paintings more often.
Yay! You finished! It's so beautiful. These last few months have definitely been a time of transformation for you. It's nice to finally get this painting off your easel and be inspired by this new season in your life.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much!I am happy it is done and I am ready to move onto the next painting!
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