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Show RECORD IN PLUM PUDDINCS King of Them All Wa That Turned I Out In English Town, Weighing I Nine Hundred Pounds. j The plum pudding Is essentially a British dish, and It Is deservedly a very popular artlclo of the menu. Hence It comes about, probably, that we rend occasionally of really Ilrob-dlngnaglnn Ilrob-dlngnaglnn puddings being put Into circulation, nnd there are several on record the very mention of which will be quite sulllclent to make the aver-age aver-age schoolboy's mouth water. For Instance, early In the last century cen-tury ouo was made, for distribution among the poor of Pulguton, which weighed IKX) pounds. Tho Ingredients Included a very large number of eggs, 120 pounds of suet, n like weight of raisins, und 4 hundredweight of Hour. It was kept boiling from Saturday morning to Tuesday evening, nnd when those In charge thought It sulllclently j cooked, It was drawn by three horses to tho vlllngo green, and there served out to the large assembly. In this ense, however, the cooks had been too precipitate, and three days' boiling was not sulllcleut, for tho. gigantic gi-gantic lump wns not ready ln the center, cen-ter, nnd only tho outside wus really fit to bo entcu, Tho dainty morsel was the outcome of nn old charter which prescribed thnt the inhabitants of tho plnco should distribute a big plum pudding nmong tho poor every fifty yenrs. |