Plum Pudding Wrap-Up
The plum pudding was a success.
We had fun lighting it on fire and serving it up with a very smooth-tasting hard sauce on Christmas Eve. (Mrs. Tldz will get to uploading a picture of same just as soon as she can get a moment away from keeping Agent Murphy out of whatever trouble he tries to find to get into.)
The pudding makes about twenty slices, which is great, except that there are only two of us who can eat it. Agent Murphy is too young by a decade or so and Mrs. Tldz’s mom has gone back home after her Christmas visit. To help out the spirit around the office, Mrs. Tldz drove me and the plum pudding to work on the Monday after Christmas. Several people commented on it, happily and a good half of the pudding disappeared over the next couple days.
We’ve written down a recipe for next year. It’s not quite what we did this year, but the changes are minimal. Mostly, it consists of using a touch less cognac in plumping the fruit and being more definite about how much to pour over the pudding before we light it on fire.
Turns out that the toaster oven is a great way to heat up a couple slices in the morning. Re-heating the hard sauce is oddly more difficult than it would seem, but the end result is good enough to slather over the pudding.
All the worry and fuss paid off and next year will make for a good repeat of our new tradition.
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