Fruitcake, plum pudding , and mince pie outlawed
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nnSEMONT 111 Plum These early New Missionaries who converted part of the party because during the Renaissance due Norwegians leave dishes
-adding mince pie, and Englanders were Puritans, the Anglo-Saxons to sweets were rare in Merry to expanded trade with the of tins nce_ pudding under
fruitcakes were outlawed and they found merry- Christianity were wise Olde England. They were East, these ingredients were the barns for the Nlsser,
from Christmas festivities in making to be too dose to its enough to leave their originally made with dried added. They were said to little men who show their
1640 This was do"* under a pagan origins for their feasting alone, so the fruits native to the British symbolize the gifts that the gratmide for the
Massachusetts statute which austere tastes. celebration became a Isles since fresh fruits were Eastern Wise Men brought porridge by prorating the
decreed partying during The Christmas season holiday of the new religion unavailable in the middle of to honor the Christ child. farm and animals during the
Christmas. Easter, and coincided with the Ancient with many of the ancient winter. Traditional plumpuddinv next year.
Whitsuntide was illegal and Anglo-Saxon winter solstice traditions. As imported spices, dried contained raisms, not plunm. Ctastaas and Twelfth
ounishable with a five- feast, in honor of both the Plum puddings and citrus fruits and. currants It got its name because m Night feasting m New
shilling fine Creation and the god Thor, fruitcakes were a special became more common Renaissance Engiang, England never wholly
si iB - iimiimiimiimiimiimiihimiimi«iimhmhmhmii»iii raisins were called plums, recovered from the Puritan
_ ■ For example. Jack Homer’s influence, although the
i' M A lAACI% CDC 9 plum was a raisin, and his making of plum pudding and
UIMVfL AIIVICI/ rKClwrll I pie was mincemeat fruitcake was later revived
, I While plum pudding was In the American colonies
i M I ■■■% A EA I EE I considered the perfect en- other than New England,
I H i\B II BC JB.I BI M MX I ItJBNB NIILCS Z ding to a Christmas dinner, where Puritans had little to
I m wnmmaw I fruitcakes were most often say about what people ate,
I ! part of the Twelfth Night the traditional baking was
i celebration. In seventeenth- carried on.
I century England, Twelfth Today, there probably are
f Night, the last day of the more Christmas fruitcakes
I Christmas season before the baked in the U.S. than
I beginning of Epiphany, was anywhere in the world. They
! usually more festive than are based on recipes passed
I fihrigtmaa. on by colonial goodwives
f A cake containing spices who were extremely proud
| and dried fruits, called of their products,
I twelfth-cake, was cut as part Making fruitcakes in the
| of the merriment. Hidden in early days of America was
| it were a bean and a pea. The hard work. Preparing the
f man whose slice contained ingredients took days, and
s the bean was declared king the whole family helped,
i of the festivities; the queen Sugar came in ten-pound,
I was she who found the pea. cone-shaped loaves. These
x The revelers dunked their were broken, pulverized and
I slices in cups of wassail or sifted. Flour was dried
X “lamb’s wool’’, a hot before the fireplace, butter
| beverage made of ale, spices washed to remove the salt,
I and roasted apples. and spices pounded into
* One traditional Anglo- powder. Currants had their
| Saxon holiday treat the stems and stones removed,
9 Puritans failed to outlaw raisins were seeded, and all
» was frumenty or furmety, the fruits were chopped by
I porridge made with milk and hand.
X hulled wheat. While baking fruit cakes
Z I* l Scandinavian countries, and plum puddings today is
I a similar dish, made with much easier, the recipes and
x rice, milk, sugar and cm- the rewards of the work, the
■ namon still is served on traditional holiday joy the
I Christmas Eve. It contains a feasting brings, have
« hidden almond; the finder is remained the same through
I blessed with luck. the centuries.
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