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Steve Webb: This is day 17 of
the 2022 encore of the 2009

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season of the Lifespring Why
Christmas show hosted by James

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Cooper, creator of
whychristmas.com. And me the OG

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God casters Steve Webb of
Lifespring media.com. Every day

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from now to Christmas day you'll
hear an episode from the 2009

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season. And if you're not yet
subscribed, or following the

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show, you can do that at
Lifespring why Christmas dot

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show. On the Christmas Day show
we're going to draw the name of

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one lucky listener who will win
an autographed copy of Bryan

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Duncan's A NehoSoul Christmas
CD. For details on how you can

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enter go to
Lifespringmedia.com/day9 to see

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how. That's Lifespringmedia.com
slash d a y numeral nine with no

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spaces. If you've been enjoying
the previous episodes of The

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Lifespring Why Christmas show
and all the Christmas goodness

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we brought to you maybe you'd be
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appreciation by sending a
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where you can do that live
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Steve at Lifespring media.com.

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It's Christmas pudding day on
the Lifespring Why Christmas

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show. Hi, I'm Steve Webb.
Listen, before we start, let me

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encourage you to send in your
answers to the Christmas trivia

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contest you heard about on
episode number nine. We'll be

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drawing the winners name out of
Santas hat on the Christmas Day

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show and the winner will get a
signed copy of Brian Dawkins

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Christmas CD O'Neill sold
Christmas. You can find the

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trivia questions at Lifespring
Why christmas.com Go on over

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there right now while you're
thinking about it and look for

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the show notes for episode
number nine. So let's find out a

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bit about Christmas pudding.
From what James tells me

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Christmas or plum pudding is the
traditional end to the British

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Christmas dinner, but it's a lot
different than it was in the

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14th century when the first
Christmas puddings were made.

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Then it was a porridge called
fruman tea that was made of beef

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and mutton with raisins
currents, prunes, wines and

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spices. Sounds tasty. It was
more like a soup then and it was

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eaten as a fasting meal in
preparation for the Christmas

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festivities. By the end of the
1500s fruman tea was slowly

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changing into a plum pudding
being thickened with eggs, bread

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crumbs and dried fruit and given
more flavor with the addition of

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beer and spirits. It became the
customary Christmas dessert

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around 1650. But in 1664 The
Puritans banded skip ahead 50

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years in King George the first
reestablished it as part of the

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Christmas meal because he tasted
at enjoy Plum Pudding by

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Victorian times Christmas
puddings and changed into

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something similar to the ones
that are eaten today. Over the

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years many superstitions have
surrounded Christmas puddings.

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One of them is the placing of
the silver coin in the pudding

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which is said to bring luck to
the person that finds it. In the

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UK. The coin that was
traditionally used was a silver

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six pence. The closest coin to
that now is a five pence piece.

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James has a recipe for Christmas
pudding at whychristmas.com If

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you'd like to make one for
yourself, thanks for listening.

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Hey, do me a favor. Tell a
friend about the show. Until

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next time for James Cooper. I'm
Steve Webb