Stir It Up Sunday
Dry
Jane is so happy to have some help in the kitchen this year! Margaret helped to mix the dry ingredients…
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Fruit
…and weigh the fruit…
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Eggs
…count out eight eggs…
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Two
…measure a couple of tots of rum…
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Butter
…and grate some frozen butter (in place of suet).
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Stir!
All the Hittys gave the mixture a stir…
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Flour
…then Margaret and Jane prepared the Pudding cloth and packed the pudding in it…
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Six hours!
…and boiled it for six hours!
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Hitty pud
After boiling, the pudding is hung to dry, and stored in the kitchen. On Christmas Day we’ll boil it for another couple of hours, before bringing it to the table in flaming brandy!
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Giant pud
Today is Stir Up Sunday! Time to make your Christmas Pudding!
We are using Eliza Acton’s 1845 recipe for Ingoldsby Christmas Pudding.
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Quimper Hittys 
WOW! Lovely Little Hitties in the Kitchen. Thank you, Love, nia
Thanks nia – I love to have help in the kitchen, it makes everything more fun!!
and I love to be in your beautiful post, photographs and stories. Thank You, Lone, nia
Wow! What a project! Haha! I notice the Hittys turn up when the rum and butter come out.
I love that rum bottle. It’s an heirloom in the making.
Ha ha you would know! Yes, isn’t the bottle lovely! I think it would throw nice reflections in the sunlight, after we get rid of the rum somehow……
Thank you for the reminder – now I don’t go to Church I don’t hear the collect. Christmas puddings are rather a faff so it’s good you had the Hittys to help. I need to decide whether to make any. I used to make them but did them in one portion basins and put them in the freezer but the freezer is rather full this year. Decisions, Decisions!
My human family would be outraged if I didn’t make Christmas pudding! And the Hittys would be miffed if I didn’t allow them to help. One portion puddings sound like a good idea – They would last you a while, but I understand about the bulging freezer at this time of year.
how marvelous that Jane finally has some qualified help in the kitchen. Margaret seems like a perfect assistant. The pudding sounds very grand! and delicious. I hope the setting afire goes well.
Margaret is happy to help! She likes feeling useful after so many boring years on a shelf, and then a worrying few days in the consignment shop!!
I bet your kitchen smelled so lovely while the ladies were baking! I hope they controlled themselves on the rum 😉
Haha about the rum! Boiling puddings for six hours doesn’t release quite the same deliciousness as baking would, but it is worth the steamy atmosphere, and is all part of Christmas preparation for us!
Margaret was such a surprising addition to the Hitty kitchen – the girls were meant to be together. I’m sure they will be busy preparing for the holiday celebrations.
We were so surprised to find her! She was so glad that we did!!!