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Christmas Pudding Quotes

“It is a problem certainly, that Christmas plum pudding. There is here something that I do not understand at all.”

Hercule Poirot in 'The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding' by Agatha Christie (1925)

“On a silver dish the Christmas pudding reposed in its glory.  A large football of a pudding, a piece of holly stuck in it like a triumphant flag and glorious flames of blue and red rising round it.  There was a cheer and cries of 'Ooh-ah.'”

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding', by Agatha Christie

"Oh!  All that steam!  The pudding had just been taken out of the cauldron.  Oh!  That smell!  The same as the one which prevailed on washing day!  It is that of the cloth which wraps the pudding.  Now, one would imagine oneself in a restaurant and in a confectioner's at the same time, with a laundry nest door.  Thirty seconds later, Mrs.  Cratchit entered, her face crimson, but smiling proudly, with the pudding resembling a cannon ball, all speckled, very firm, sprinkled with brandy in flames, and decorated with a sprig of holly stuck in the centre.  Oh!  The marvelous pudding!"

Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol’