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Steve Webb: Merry Christmas.
This is day 18 of the 2022

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encore of the 2009 season of the
Lifespring White Christmas show

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hosted by James Cooper, creator
of whychristmas.com and me the

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OG Godcaster Steve Webb of
Lifespringmedia.com. Every day

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from now to Christmas day you'll
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season. And if you're not yet
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show, you can do that at
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And on the Christmas Day show
we're going to have a drawing to

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see which lucky listener will
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Duncan's A NehoSoul Christmas
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Steve Webb: And now enjoy the
show.

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James Cooper: Hello, and welcome
to Day 18 of the 2009 Lifespring

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my Christmas show. Well,
yesterday Steve told you a bit

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about some Christmas food in
that Christmas pudding and I

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thought I'd continue with that
today with a couple more bits of

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festive fare. Well, you might or
might not have had some mince

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pies yet. Unlike Christmas
pudding and their name, they

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originally filled with minced
lamb rather than the dried fruit

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mix as they are today. And they
were also first made in oval

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shape to represent Jesus's
manger. And often they had

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little pastry Jesus put on the
top. I'm rather partial to a hot

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mince pie with some ice cream. A
custom from the Middle Ages said

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that if you eat a mince pie on
every day from Christmas to 12th

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Night, that's the sixth of
January, you'll have happiness

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for the next 12 months. Now
another Christmas favorite over

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here in the UK is the Christmas
cake, which is a very rich fruit

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cake. And traditionally, the
fruit in it is either soaked in

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brandy or rum and it's rather
than alcoholic affair. Recipes

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for mince pies and Christmas
cakes are over in the Christmas

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custom section of
whychristmas.com. Tomorrow Steve

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will be telling you about a
Christmas decoration that's made

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up of some edible parts the
Christingle right now where did

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I put those mince pies