Merry Christmas one and all. Hopefully you’ll all be to busy to see this until Boxing Day at least but all the best from Blighty. Many thanks for your fellowship in this rather trying year.
Here’s a Christmas favourite of mine, enjoy.
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Thanks for sharing! Don’t think I’ve ever heard a Christmas song from Jethro Tull. 🙂
Mr Townsend will guide you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4o1wYwkv9g
A happy merry and a very Christmas New Year to you and yours!
BTW, what the hell is “figgy pudding?”
As I suspected, Figgy Puddiing was not one particular type of Pudding or Cake, but an ensemble of cake and pudding that combines Sweet, Sour, and even Savory.
For instance, I made Ginger Cake for Christmas, with Cardoman, Cloves, Ginger, Allspice (which is itself a mixture like Curry is), Cinnamon, and Nutmeg. Add a Sweet Sauce on top of the Savory Ginger Cake and I may well be serving up “Figgy Pudding”
A lot of Medieval Cooking and even Music was not formally codified, much less recorded. The cooks and bakes knew what to do and passed the techniques and recipes onto their children.
Today we talk in terms of recipes. We have formal recipes for Fried Chicken, when in fact families often had their own recipes, based on where they came from and what they had available.
For some reason I woke up this a.m. and the question of “figgy pudding” came to mind. Ha ha. Thanks for sharing the info.