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Ruth A. Symes [A version of this article was first published in Who Do You Think You Are Magazine in 2015] A Victorian footed compote dish with raspberries, a dish of ice cream, and a piece of pound cake placed on a table. Reproduction of a painting by the artist Cadurcis Plantagenet Ream. Via Wikimedia Commons.... Continue Reading →
[A version of this article first appeared in Discover Your Ancestors Online Periodical - December 2015]. http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk/ Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Girl's Own Paper December 20th 1884, Vol VI, No.260. Greenery and fruit, sparkle and snow, colourfully-dressed tables and walls inscribed with Yuletide mottos - Christmases past were decorated using much... Continue Reading →
by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Via Wikimedia Commons [This article first appeared in Family Tree Magazine UK 2015] Plum pudding was very likely to be found on the Christmas table of most of our families throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With its stodge and... Continue Reading →
