Steve Webb  0:01  
This is day 17 of the 2022 encore of the 2009 season of the Lifespring Why Christmas show hosted by James Cooper, creator of whychristmas.com. And me the OG God casters Steve Webb of Lifespring media.com. Every day from now to Christmas day you'll hear an episode from the 2009 season. And if you're not yet subscribed, or following the show, you can do that at Lifespring why Christmas dot show. On the Christmas Day show we're going to draw the name of one lucky listener who will win an autographed copy of Bryan Duncan's A NehoSoul Christmas CD. For details on how you can enter go to Lifespringmedia.com/day9 to see how. That's Lifespringmedia.com slash d a y numeral nine with no spaces. If you've been enjoying the previous episodes of The Lifespring Why Christmas show and all the Christmas goodness we brought to you maybe you'd be willing to show James and Isom appreciation by sending a Christmas gift our way. Here's where you can do that live stream. Dots comm slash thoughts and also remember you can send micropayments and boostagrams if you're using one of the new podcast apps that all the cool kids are using now. You can find one for free at newpodcastapps.com And if you've got any questions, email me at Steve at Lifespring media.com.

Steve Webb  1:37  
It's Christmas pudding day on the Lifespring Why Christmas show. Hi, I'm Steve Webb. Listen, before we start, let me encourage you to send in your answers to the Christmas trivia contest you heard about on episode number nine. We'll be drawing the winners name out of Santas hat on the Christmas Day show and the winner will get a signed copy of Brian Dawkins Christmas CD O'Neill sold Christmas. You can find the trivia questions at Lifespring Why christmas.com Go on over there right now while you're thinking about it and look for the show notes for episode number nine. So let's find out a bit about Christmas pudding. From what James tells me Christmas or plum pudding is the traditional end to the British Christmas dinner, but it's a lot different than it was in the 14th century when the first Christmas puddings were made. Then it was a porridge called fruman tea that was made of beef and mutton with raisins currents, prunes, wines and spices. Sounds tasty. It was more like a soup then and it was eaten as a fasting meal in preparation for the Christmas festivities. By the end of the 1500s fruman tea was slowly changing into a plum pudding being thickened with eggs, bread crumbs and dried fruit and given more flavor with the addition of beer and spirits. It became the customary Christmas dessert around 1650. But in 1664 The Puritans banded skip ahead 50 years in King George the first reestablished it as part of the Christmas meal because he tasted at enjoy Plum Pudding by Victorian times Christmas puddings and changed into something similar to the ones that are eaten today. Over the years many superstitions have surrounded Christmas puddings. One of them is the placing of the silver coin in the pudding which is said to bring luck to the person that finds it. In the UK. The coin that was traditionally used was a silver six pence. The closest coin to that now is a five pence piece. James has a recipe for Christmas pudding at whychristmas.com If you'd like to make one for yourself, thanks for listening. Hey, do me a favor. Tell a friend about the show. Until next time for James Cooper. I'm Steve Webb

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