So that is where my mum's Christmas Pudding comes from! Growing up it was always a tradition to help with making it (the recipe is very close to clootie dumpling recipe, except for the beef suet). Everyone had to have a stir and make a wish and until our currency changed from the pound to the dollar we could expect to find a threepence or sixpence buried deep as a surprise. I have made this a few times and my brother still expects one at Christmas. My g-grandmother was from Glasgow and all the family were involved in either Scottish dancing or the pipe band in Tenterfield where they had transplanted themselves. Music seemed to be a recurrent theme in the family. Are the Glaswegians a musical lot? Thanks for stirring the memories Maisie. Susan Qld, Australia -----Original Message----- From: lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lanark-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Maisie Egger via Sent: Monday, 7 December 2015 5:29 AM To: LANARK@rootsweb.com Subject: [Lanark] Clootie dumpling Scottish tradition Culture and tradition: Clootie dumpling. When I was growing up in Glasgow, no child of my acquaintance ever had a birthday cake. The pièce de résistance at small birthday parties, Christmas or New Year was the ubiquitous clootie dumpling. (An English friend had never heard of such until recently.) http://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/food/a-history-of-the-clootie-dumpling-including-a-recipe-for-making-your-own/ Time and change, and how! My daughter’s children and theirs are very involved in 4-H and FFA (Future Farmers of America), so even working with and showing their animals, not one of them had heard of suet. I was going to very proudly show them how suet added to the taste and texture of a clootie dumpling last Christmas, but alas! There is no way that I can back this up, but I am sure that there was hardly a person growing up in Scotland who never tasted clootie dumpling...built into their Scottish DNA. Of course not. I am just trying to make the point that this wonderful concoction was very much a part of the culture. I hope it hasn’t gone by the wayside now that so many “mammies’ are out to work and may not have time to watch the clootie dumpling ‘bilin’ its heid aff’ for three hours to make sure the water doesn’t boil in. Maisie ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message