A merry Christmas to one and all.
Our Festivities are getting completed.
My wife made a traditional English Christmas cake and decorated it a couple of days ago.
This is a traditional Victorian cake. The ornaments are handed down from my wife's great-grandmother. So this is what a nineteenth century cake would look like. The recipe is also ancient and so is a genuine taste of old England. They are wonderful.
About six weeks ago we made the traditional English pudding referred to in ancient times as Figgy-pudding.
This will get another cooking tomorrow, and then have brady poured over it, and brought to the table alight.
This is cooked in my grandmother's steam boiler, where there is water in the lower container, and it passes up to the upper one though a steam tube. So the pudding cooks in the condensed steam.
So we celebrate Christmas day and Boxing day. It is always a good two day bash.
I listened to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols live from Kings College Chapel Cambridge live this morning. It was 9:00 AM CST, but 3:00 PM GMT.
Here is a link to the Christmas concert from St.Olaf College, Northfield from a couple of weeks ago. They put on a fantastic show each Christmas. The Audio and video are fantastic. I'm sure many of you would enjoy this, as well as giving your systems a work out. Enjoy!
