How to Comfort Sorrow

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By MFK Fisher

Published 1944

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I’ll make her a pudding, and a pudding she’ll like, too. ... Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.

Cranford, MRS. GASKELL

There are those of us, and perhaps it is a good sign, who hold that puddings are fit food for babes and dodderers and such misfortunates with few teeth and less esthetic taste. Others, and who is to say whether they are right or not, would agree with Cranford’s quaint character that a pudding can be a fine heartwarming thing indeed, in times of sorrow.