INGREDIENTS:
1 cup raisins or currants
3⁄4 cup mixed peel
1⁄2 cup canola oil
1⁄2 cup sugar
1 cup flour
11⁄2 teasp cinnamon
1⁄2 teasp ground cloves
1 teasp baking soda
1 cup milk, warm
METHOD:
In bowl mix raisins, peel and canola oil. Mix
in sugar. Combine flour, cinnamon, cloves and
salt; stir into fruit mixture. Combine soda
and warm milk and stir into fruit our mixture
(batter will be
thin).
Pour batter into a 4 cup (1 L) greased, English pudding basin,
mould
or
bowl. Cover with a double thickness of foil and secure foil with
a
string or elastic band.
Steam 2 hours. [Note: I pour 1 1/2 cups hot water into a
large
crockpot,
set
it to
high,
place the pudding in the crockpot, place the lid on the crockpot
and
steam
for
3
hours.]
Remove bowl from pot and place in a 350 F oven for 1 to 2 minutes
to dry out. Let stand for 20 minutes, then unmould with knife
and let cool completely. Wrap in heavy foil and store in
cool place for 2 weeks before serving. [Note, we don't let our
pudding age for two weeks, it never lasts more than a few hours!]
To reheat: place foil wrapped pudding in 350F oven for 30 to
40 minutes until heated through.
Serve hot with sauce.
Makes 8 to 10 servings.
Note: the original recipe calls for suet, I replaced the suet
with canola oil with very good results.
Page by Page: A Woman's Journal
Photography
Poetry
by Maggie Turner
Canadian Maggie Turner writes and publishes
poetry, photography, and a personal journal online. Her work reflects the current
way of life in Canada, embracing Canada's past, present, and future in a unique
portrayal of everyday life. Maggie's voice is one of the many that
actively
depict the
rich diversity
of Canadian culture.
Photography: "a term which comes from the Greek words
photos (light) and graphos (drawing). A photograph is made
with a camera by exposing film to light
in order to create a negative. The negative is then used
in the darkroom to print a photograph (positive) onto light-sensitive
paper.
Source: University of Arizona Glossary
Poetry: "a form of speech or writing that harmonizes
the music of its language with its subject. To read a great
poem is to bring out the perfect marriage of
its
sound and thought in a silent or voiced performance. At
least from the time of Aristotle's Poetics, drama was conceived
of as a species of poetry."
Source: Creative Studios
Journal: " "Though a journal may be many things - a treasury, a storehouse,
a jewelry box, a laboratory, a drafting board, a collector's cabinet, a snapshot
album, a history, a travelogue..., a letter to oneself - it has some definable
characteristics. It is a record, an entry-book, kept regularly, though not necessarily
daily.... Some (entries) will be nearly illegible, written in the dark in the
middle of the night.... Not only is it a record for oneself, but of oneself.
Every memorable journal, any successful journal, is honest. Nothing sham, phony,
false...." (Dorothy Lambert from Ken Macrorie's book,
Writing to be Read )
A journal is a way to keep track of your thoughts about
what you read... as well as what you did on any given day."
Source: Journal Writing
A Blog is an online journal created by server side
software, often hosted by a commercial interest.
"The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[4]
on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was
coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog
into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com
in April or May 1999.[5][6][7] Shortly thereafter, Evan
Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun
and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's
weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the
term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger
product, leading to the popularization of the terms."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging
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