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Off Topic => The Pub => Food & Drink => Topic started by: alan on 28 November, 2008, 03:59:26 pm

Title: Xmas Pudding
Post by: alan on 28 November, 2008, 03:59:26 pm
is now being done :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Tom M on 28 November, 2008, 04:04:03 pm
Any sixpences going in?

Tried fivers last year, and would advise against it...
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2008, 04:07:41 pm
Put Euros in and confuse everybody...
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: alan on 28 November, 2008, 04:07:47 pm
Quote from: Tom M on 28 November, 2008, 04:04:03 pm
Any sixpences going in?



No, but it is made with bucketfulls of TLC :)
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Jaded on 28 November, 2008, 04:57:35 pm
Yum!  :P
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: delthebike on 28 November, 2008, 05:02:45 pm
Christmas cake and Xmas Pudding! I can see a long lost relative, called del, turning up this year. Be kind to him.  ;)
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Marj on 28 November, 2008, 05:13:26 pm
I have made one at 2½lbs, 1 at 1½lbs and 1 at 1lb as a taster, you have to taste it to make sure that it's ok for Christmas day, don't you.
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: JohnP on 28 November, 2008, 05:18:06 pm
Marj, you are quite right.  They need time to mature and then need to be checked.

Alan may just have left it too late for this year. They should be OK for Christmas 2009.
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Marj on 28 November, 2008, 05:21:14 pm
The one we had last year had been made 12 months, I had to hide it from Alan.
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Jaded on 28 November, 2008, 05:21:54 pm
We have a Christmas cake made 32 years ago!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: hellymedic on 28 November, 2008, 06:06:36 pm
Has anyone else noticed that the price of raisins has jumped up 80% in the last 3 months?
I know thhe pound has fallen against the dollar but...
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Snakehips on 28 November, 2008, 08:18:09 pm
Quote from: clarion on 28 November, 2008, 04:07:41 pm
Put Euros in and confuse everybody...

Putting Croatian 50 lipa coins in would confuse matters as well.

It certainly confused to tollgate at the Dartford tunnel when I did it (accidently) last week

Snake
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Robbo5 on 29 November, 2008, 10:49:49 am
Quote from: hellymedic on 28 November, 2008, 06:06:36 pm
Has anyone else noticed that the price of raisins has jumped up 80% in the last 3 months?
I know thhe pound has fallen against the dollar but...

It's been a very bad harvest for grapes this year, in the northern hemisphere at least.
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Snakehips on 29 November, 2008, 11:11:52 am
'  ... a very bad harvest for grapes this year ' :'(

Does that mean the price of wine is set for a steep increase ?

One of my few remaining pleasures could be about to disappear

Snake
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Robbo5 on 29 November, 2008, 01:24:19 pm
I can't speak for elsewhere, but Mme. R's place (Sauternes) has had a harvest like a Virgin Train, very late and tiny when it got here. They quality is expected to be very good though. So in a nutshell, yes, it will be expensive.
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: Snakehips on 29 November, 2008, 03:07:48 pm
Quote from: Robbo on 29 November, 2008, 01:24:19 pm
So in a nutshell, yes, it will be expensive.
Blimey , I'd better get round to Sainsbury's quick before the half price Vina Maipo disappears , and stock up for the long term

Snake
Title: Re: Xmas Pudding
Post by: alan on 11 December, 2008, 11:07:21 pm
The fridge contains 3 puddings.One medium & two small.
Marj says they are one large & two medium.
That's a lorra lorra brandy :demon: