THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 306, 23 December 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING.

' (From the "Lancet.")

j The art of substitution has reached -ic-ii a high level nowadays that the ! r.e e--ity lor definition- arises. During :1 he l.i-t decade high court-, police courts, -ci.-initio li -il.mi.ii-. and so forth have 'hid inu.-h of their time occupied, in cor.- . - omiuodit ie- aie entitled to a timehonour.■.! nam,-, and -~ i|iie-tions like the ' . loll.,wine |~I V, . Leon ,|i-. u-.-.d: What i- ■ ''in in abide.- What i.- I rV What is I ieaiher'.- \\ hat i- -ilk- \\ li.it i- .-ham- ! I'i-oie. brandy. whl-kv. port, or nun? M.nr. ot!,er a'rli.-ie- might l„- ineiitioiie.l. E wi.|e!\ diver-e in nature aud coinpo-i- ji . tioti. but baling ilii — in common, that ,| in competition liv the iui i-.idu. lion ot j' | -ul.-iitiite- generally declared to he, 1 " "ju-t a- good." 'lo such interrogatories jln Iwe in. iv sea-,.nably add. What i- plum !;, |illddillg? Tin- oln hills ali-wer would ap- s | 1 I'ear to be pudding made, in part, at any rate, of plum-; vet what i- ".oner- ~ ally c.i11.-d a plum pudding the Chil-t- ~| in.i- pud,line n,.vei contains plum-, if |,< a,- a.-.-ept the delinition ~i a |iititn that „i it i- th 1b,:,, drupaeeoii- fruit of any ~ "'le of \.il;ou- lice- ■•! tile genu- i'IUIIU-. \] A- evervolle know-, the fruit- u-cl ill ' t'bri-tiua- pud,line are genera rlv rai-ii.s iti.l currant-. 1...H, ~i whi.-h arc dried ~ grape-. There are -everal pudding- in ~, i !'-•■ ker\ ho.k- .-.nil,lining rai-iu- -p but never "plum pud ling": there - ill-' ; i pudding . leniini-ceiil ■■! -cliooblay-l „ , coin lining currani -. wbh-h •- called a ~ .lee,'filing j,, [ii,- lelllper ol Cie -jieaker. n We -ko'nhl no; expect thc-e pudding- . :' he called p'.uni pudding-, ami limy j never ale: but when Ihe currants and raisins appear in the t hri-ttnas pudding 1 Willi no logic, it is agiecd to accept the j currants whe-i tin-, happen to be in (i If plum nm wore a-ke,| for and a * [grape pre-erve were wilfully -üb-t itut cd. ( : iwe -li ,uM ~\pe ■; -v i, ~ bargain to he regarded a- a mi- letueatiour within the I meaning of the F ~,.1 an 1 Drug- Act. , * j bill Whether Ih.lt -hould be the c.l-0 ! ; w hen plum pudding i- a-ke.| for ,\<\A a j pudding without p'.-ni- i-tri.-tly -peak I | ingi i- tend •led ':- not -o clear. It \ j would, p., ,1 „,1,•. ;,.. argued, in case anyi one -hould attempt to interfere with jhe e\pee- c. It . I 'Jet ! il it i-. a pllllll pad- | j ding w ithoiit an\ piuni.-. i ! __