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Have you all got your ingredients for your Christmas Pud? Tomorrow is Stir-up Sunday
Stir-up Sunday
Delia's Christmas pudding recipe
Stir up Sunday
Stir-up Sunday
Delia's Christmas pudding recipe
The last Sunday of the Church Year, or the Sunday before Advent, is often called 'Stir-up Sunday'. (Advent begins on Advent Sunday, which is four Sundays before Christmas.)
Stir-up Sunday is the traditional day for everyone in the family to take a turn at stirring the Christmas pudding, whilst making a wish.
Before Christmas puddings were sold ready-made in foil containers, they were always made at home.
On Stir-up Sunday families returned from Church and gave the pudding its traditional lucky stir.
Children chanted this rhyme:
Stir up, we beseech thee,
The pudding in the pot;
And when we get home
We'll eat the lot.
Christmas Pudding Traditions
A proper Christmas pudding is always stirred from East to West in honour of the three Wise Men.
A Christmas pudding is traditionally made with 13 ingredients to represent Christ and His Disciples.
Every member of the family must give the pudding a stir and make a secret wish.
A coin was traditionally added to the ingredients and cooked in the pudding. It was supposedly to bring wealth to whoever found it on their plate on Christmas Day. The traditional coin was an old silver sixpence or threepenny bit.
Other traditional additions to the pudding included a ring, to foretell a marriage, and a thimble for a lucky life.
Why is it called Stir-up Sunday?
The name “Stir Up Sunday” comes from the opening words of the collect for the day in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and later (that is the prayer of the day that “collects” up the themes of the readings). That same prayer, adapted into more modern language, is now the Church of England's prayer after communion for this Sunday:
"Stir-up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people;
that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works,
may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
The name “Stir Up Sunday” comes from the opening words of the collect for the day in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and later (that is the prayer of the day that “collects” up the themes of the readings). That same prayer, adapted into more modern language, is now the Church of England's prayer after communion for this Sunday:
"Stir-up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people;
that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works,
may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
Christmas Pudding Day
Stir-up Sunday is the traditional day for everyone in the family to take a turn at stirring the Christmas pudding, whilst making a wish.Before Christmas puddings were sold ready-made in foil containers, they were always made at home.
On Stir-up Sunday families returned from Church and gave the pudding its traditional lucky stir.
Children chanted this rhyme:
Stir up, we beseech thee,
The pudding in the pot;
And when we get home
We'll eat the lot.
Christmas Pudding Traditions
A proper Christmas pudding is always stirred from East to West in honour of the three Wise Men.
A Christmas pudding is traditionally made with 13 ingredients to represent Christ and His Disciples.
Every member of the family must give the pudding a stir and make a secret wish.
A coin was traditionally added to the ingredients and cooked in the pudding. It was supposedly to bring wealth to whoever found it on their plate on Christmas Day. The traditional coin was an old silver sixpence or threepenny bit.
Other traditional additions to the pudding included a ring, to foretell a marriage, and a thimble for a lucky life.
We don't have a trad. Christmas pudding, I usually make a super-chocolatey one, but it still has to be made on the 'right' day 
Nah we don't bother, I reckon my teeth are dodgy enough without risking cracking one on a quid! 
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