A Recipe for Christmas Pudding (John Whittaker)

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• (Posted 2020-04-09)  CPDL #57911:     

Editor: Jeremy Rawson (submitted 2020-04-09).   Score information: A3, 5 pages, 96 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: A Recipe for Christmas Pudding

Composer: John Whittaker
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Christmas (secular)

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2020
Description: Arrangement for SATB of a song from the composer's cantata "A Christmas Garland" (for Baritone and Orchestra).

Original text and translations

English text

To make a plum pudding to ev'ry one's taste.
So all may be eaten with nothing to waste,
Take of raisins and currants and bread crumbs, all round;
Also suet from oxen, and flour a pound,
Of citron well candied, or lemon as good,
With molasses and sugar, eight ounces, I would,
Into this first compound, next must be hasted
A nutmeg well grated, ground ginger well tasted,
With salt to preserve it, of such a teaspoonful;
Then of milk half a pint, and of fresh eggs take six;
Be sure after this that you properly mix.
Next tie up in a bag, just as round as you can,
Put into a capacious and suitable pan,
And boil for eight hours
Then you'll have a plum pudding for Christmas Day!