Show Christmas Plum Pudding The Christmas plum pudding is descended descended de de- from the plum porridge and andis andis is a time honored dish at every Christmas feast To be properly made each person in all the household house house- hold must stir It before it Is boiled and the mistress of ot the house must add the spices with her own fair hand and so she favors fortune for fora a year If It she is is an American and mixes her pudding in an ancient ch china na bowl stirring it with as ancient a spoon whose handle is adorned with an old English crest so much the bet ter for In the tho new land she is help ing to keep alive the customs that made old England merrie The pudding should b bo boiled balled In a well floured cloth six hours upon the day of or mixing six hours upon the tho day of eating and the tho steam should not cease to arise from the pot while the pudding is within it I |