Spread over the pudding when baked, and brown slightly; then sift sugar over it.
This pudding should be cooked in a vessel set in hot water.
Little Jack Horner" who sat in a corner was a satire on the Puritan aversion to Christmas puddingand sense of conscious virtue.
It was made in fifty different ways, but the ingredients were always the same, and in this family they evidently had pudding every day.
It broke out at the house of one Farryner, a baker in Pudding Lane, Thames Street.
One would scarce believe with what incredible rapidity that pudding was metamorphosed.
I wish she would be married and have a nice little home and care how the bread rises and the pudding comes out of the oven.
When at last she could bear the suspense no longer, she asked Judith to boil the eggs, and to bring the ricepudding from the cellar, and went up stairs to her own chamber and shut the door.
Then Jed and his visitor were left to gaze upon a broken plate on the floor, an overturned bowl on top of the ice-chest, and a lumpy rivulet of rice pudding trickling to the floor.
Ruth grasped his meaning later when she tasted the pudding and found it flavored with New England rum.
And as if to stifle for ever any ability in Michael to ask questions, she proceeded to cram his mouth with a dessert-spoonful of rice pudding from her own plate, jarring his teeth with the spoon when she withdrew it.
Go back now to your dinner; I dare say you've not had any pudding yourself.
The captain, who still had his stick in his hand, lifted it and spattered the pudding all about the cloth.
The pudding smelt like a washing-day when the time came to cut it open.
Then we got out our own pudding from its hiding-place and gave it one last hurried boil--only seven minutes, because of the general impatience which Oswald and Dora could not cope with.
Yet we shrank from asking any more people whether they were poor persons, or about their families, and still more from offering the pudding to chance people who might bite into it and taste the soap before we had time to get away.
Every evening till Christmas, which had now become only the day after to-morrow, we sneaked down in the inky midnight and boiled that pudding for as long as it would.
The threepenny bits safely in, it took the united efforts of the homestead to get the pudding into a cloth and thence into a boiler, while Cheon explained that it would have been larger if only we had had a larger boiler to hold it.
Four dozen eggs in a pudding necessitates an all-night boiling, and because of this we offered to share "watches" with Cheon, but were routed in a body.
We held our breaths in astonishment, each feeling like the entire Cratchit family rolled into one, and by the time we had recovered speech, Cheon was soberly carrying one third of the pudding to the missus.
He and Anne were both spending Christmas there at the time, and we are not even told that the King sent his royal prisoner a plum pudding for his Christmas dinner.
It would probably have killed him if he had," said Archie; "plum pudding without exercise is a rather dangerous experiment.
