Yesterday was 'Stir up Sunday', the last Sunday before the season of Advent. It is traditionally the day for making the Christmas pudding and at Hazel Cottage this year, we were no exception. We followed Delia's traditional recipe and made sure that we both had a hand in stirring the pudding. We didn't say the old rhyme "Stir up we beseech thee, the pudding in the pot, we'll get home afore ye and we'll eat the lot" although I was a little tempted.
The day is called Stir up Sunday because the 1662 Book of Common Prayer has the following collect for the day:-
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.
As I sat in church later that evening, listening to that old prayer being said, I thought of our pudding still simmering away back at home and felt rather happy.
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