We watched Disney's The Muppet Christmas Carol for our family movie night, to go along with our reading of the Dickens classic. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of direct quotes from the story it contains. It turned out to be a lot more on the educational side, than I had anticipated. Though, of course, with the Muppets there was plenty of "entertainment", too.
The children had a good time picking out the parts of the movie that were the same, and the parts that deviated from the book.
The Christmas pudding was omitted from the Kermit/Cratchit's Christmas dinner. But, that was okay, because I was ready with Mathew Walker Christmas pudding (ordered earlier in the week off of Amazon) to fill the gap.
I had deliberately ordered the small, four serving pudding, so that I would be able to deliver the line that, "nobody said or thought that it was at all a small pudding for a large family", and because as I suspected...
...the English dessert is an acquired taste - especially for our American palates...sort of like a really moist fruit cake.
I don't think Christmas pudding will make our list Christmas favorites. It was fun though to take a taste, and bring a spoonful of the story to life.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
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That is so cool. I would love to try that someday.
Blessings, Dawn
This, of course, is nothing like the "original" Christmas pudding. I think the modern version has about 70% sultanas, which wouldn't have been so readily available in Edwardian England. I'm not surprised you didn't like it :-)
We make a Christmas pudding every year...I bet it is better homemade. I never have had it any other way, however. Really good with a hard sauce.
I thought you made it yourself :) I remember hearing somewhere that The Muppet Christmas Carol is the closest to original Dickens' story that any other screen adaptation. I still think that Anna would not like ghost parts.
I love the way you bring so many different elements into the one book you are working on. The muppets and the pudding. The kids will never forget that story.
Nicol - I did notice sultanas were the top ingredient...if I get time I might check into an old recipe...if I see "beef suet" on the ingredient list though - well, let's just say I'll stick with fruit cake :)
Phylis - Do you boil yours?
Natalie - The ghost scenes weren't bad. They had a lot of Muppety humor to lighten them up. However, you might want to Google and watch a few episodes of the old Muppet Show, or it probably won't all make sense.
After we made our own Christmas pudding two years ago I don't think we will ever stop the tradition. The kids loved it and are looking forward to eating it. Sorry yours wasn't a favorite. http://highhillhomeschool.blogspot.com/2012/03/english-christmas-pudding.html
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