Who Said Plum Pudding?

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The Christmas Cook

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

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1. The Spring of Knowledge or The Alphabet Illustrated (London: J. L. Marks, ca. 1835), unpaginated.
2. The Confectioners’ Journal (January 1878), 21.
3. Mrs. Horace Mann, Christianity in the Kitchen (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861), 67.
4. Frederick G. Bascom, ed., Letters of a Ticonderoga Farmer (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1946), 131.
5. For example, The Downingtown American Republican of 29 December 1812 complained that the legislators of Pennsylvania had adjourned unnecessarily for a two-week holiday if nothing else than to draw “Three dollars a day for eating Christmas pies.” Three dollars a day was their salary—taxpayer’s money of course.
6. The Lancaster (Pennsylvania) General Hospital “Benefit” Cook Book (Lancaster, Pa.: Conn & Slote, 1912), 75.
7. John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities (London: Chatto & Windus, 1900), 284.
8. See Mrs. Julia A. Carney, “Whisky Pickles,” The Household (Brattleboro, Vt.) 7 (September 1874), 208.
9. Eliza Leslie, Miss Leslie’s Cook Book (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1881), 490. This is a later edition of her New Cookery Book.
10. See for example, Susan Coolidge’s use of the term in her “Fortunes of a Saucer-Pie,” St. Nicholas 3 (November 1875), 42-44.
11. “Christmas Keeping,” The New Monthly and Literary Journal (Philadelphia) 2 (July-December 1821), 646.
12. See the introduction to the reprint of John Nott’s Cook and Confectioners Dictionary, ed. Elizabeth David (London: Lawrence Rivington, 1980), 30.
13. Mary J. Barr, “The Christmas Pudding,” Cooking Club Magazine 5 (December 1903), 554.
14. Sunday Dispatch (Philadelphia), 17 December 1848. The Alhambra was situated at Seventh and Walnut streets.
15. The Household (Brattleboro, Vt.) 7 (June 1874), 135.
16. The Household (Brattleboro, Vt.) 7 (September 1874), 205.

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