Making the Christmas Pudding in a Victorian Cottage, 1884 🎄 | Victorian Christmas Carols

#VictorianChristmas #ChristmasCarols #ChristmasPudding Stir-Up Sunday in a Victorian Country Kitchen, 1884 — peaceful Victorian Christmas carols and classical music for a snowy Sunday of Christmas pudding making in an English village. Two and a half hours of chamber carols on parlour piano, strings, harp, flute and clarinet. 📜 A CHRISTMAS IN HOLLYHURST · CHAPTER 2 On the last Sunday before Advent, the church bells ring over the snowy roofs of Hollyhurst and the villagers walk home through the lychgate. A woman in a burgundy wool cloak brings a basket of eggs to a little thatched cottage, where the kitchen smells of oranges, cinnamon and cloves. The cook chops candied peel, cracks the eggs and pours in the dried fruit, and then everyone takes a turn: two children stir with their eyes closed and make a secret wish, and a gentleman in a dark green greatcoat sets down his top hat to stir once for luck. A silver sixpence drops into the batter, the puddings are tied in cloth and set to steam in a great copper pot, and by evening they hang from the kitchen beam, waiting for Christmas Day. 🎻 CAROLS IN THIS CHAPTER Deck the Halls · The Holly and the Ivy · I Saw Three Ships · Here We Come A-Wassailing · O Christmas Tree · Gloucestershire Wassail 🕯️ THE CHAPTER, PAGE BY PAGE 00:00 Church Bells Over Snowy Hollyhurst 15:00 A Basket of Eggs at the Cottage Door 30:00 The Cottage Kitchen and Its Spices 45:00 Candied Peel, Eggs and Dried Fruit 1:00:00 Everyone Stirs and Makes a Wish 1:15:00 A Silver Sixpence in the Batter 1:30:00 Puddings Steaming in the Copper Pot 1:45:00 Mince Pies and a Pot of Tea 2:00:00 Lamplight on the Village Street 2:15:00 Puddings Hanging from the Kitchen Beam ✍️ From the curator: "Stir-Up Sunday was always my favorite part of the old Christmas stories — everyone gets one stir and one wish."] 💬 What would you wish for while stirring the Christmas pudding? Hollyhurst is a fictional village. Its pictures and arrangements were made with AI tools and gathered into chapters by a human storyteller. Every carol is a traditional melody in the public domain. Hollyhurst Carols — Christmas carols and classical music from a Victorian English village. #VictorianChristmasMusic #ClassicalChristmasMusic #StirUpSunday #OldFashionedChristmas