Christmas Plum Pudding Keeps Old England Alive
The Christmas plum pudding descends from plum porridge and remains a time honored dish. Each household member stirs it before boiling while the mistress adds spices with her own hand to favor fortune for a year. An American using an antique china bowl and crested spoon preserves customs from old England as the pudding boils for six hours on mixing day and six hours on eating day, with steam ever rising.
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England
Merrie
Mistletoe Customs Rooted in Druid Winter Festivities
A historical note traces Christmas decoration practices to Druids who revered mistletoe as a sacred plant. The piece connects ancient ritual custom to modern household traditions, highlighting enduring symbolism and celebratory use during the winter season.
Chronology of Historic Church, Empire, and Colonial Feats
A compact list records landmark events from 306 to 1776, noting Diocletian massacres, Augustine’s baptism of Saxons, Offa’s Welsh clash, Pope Leo III crowning, Alfred’s defeats, Westminster coronations, Irish chieftains in Dublin, Crusader feasts in Sicily, Oldcastle’s execution, Orleans truce at Christmas, Columbus wreck, Puritan fasts, Parliament prohibitions, Pilgrims in Plymouth, Newton’s birth, Collins the poet, the tea ship in New York, and key sieges and crossings ending with Washington in 1776.
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Diocletian
St. Augustine
Kent
Offa
Mercia
Chishpene
Pope Leon Lil
Rome
Alfred the Great
Uthrun, the Dane
Chippen
Westminster Abbey
Edgitha
William the Conqueror
Westminster
Henry III
Dublin
Richard the Lion Heart
Sicily
Sir Is Oldcastle
Orleans
Columbus
Hayti
Cardinal Wolves
Gary
Plymouth
Sir Inang Newton
Christas
General Court of Massachusetts
William Collins
New York
England
Arnold and Montgomery
Quebec
Washington
Trenton
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Aoe
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Falstaff and
Heim’s
Miss Gussie’ Miller
Deimling. Bros
Troy
Ephone Co
Martin Arth, Jr
Mer
H. T. Sims
Highland Beauty
R.C. Morriss
Ildi
Rae
Riebold’s Bakery
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