The fourth and last Sunday of the Advent has arrived and to end - TopicsExpress

The fourth and last Sunday of the Advent has arrived and to end our weekly countdown to Christmas we return to the mock-heroic genre to celebrate (or question) to the now oh so British delicious pastry treat; the Mince-Pie. Mrs. Caroline Petty Pastry (Elizabeth Cobbold) published her mock-heroic epistle ‘The Mince Pye; An Heroic Epistle Addressed to the Sovereign Dainty of the a British Feast’ in October 1800. This burlesque poem is a satire on Charles Small Pybus’s Sovereign. Instead of focusing on royalty, Pastry turns towards the sovereign of the British table, which, surprisingly, is not the mince pie but the Plum-Pudding. Describing the mince pie as a luxurious and glutinous treat: Since then establish’d mince meat thus defies The pow’r of luxury, that never dies; The splendid dish and plate how much more vain, Of perishable glass or porcelain, Through pott’ries be exhausted, millions spent, The glutton’s paunch is Mince Pye’s monument! Pastry celebrates the most British, yet neglected pudding: Hail, blest Twelfth-cakes, of eminence supreme! For what ye taste like, not for what ye seem: Not for your sugar’d tops, or gilded head, Such often folds o’er musty gingerbread; But for the larger means that ye possess Of giving little gluttons happiness. What sweet beautitudes mamma empoy When she thus gives her sickly offspring joy! Plum-pudding is a homely, hearty, and wholesome dish which can be enjoyed by the British people, rather than foreign, luxurious, and dainty treats such as mince pies. Although Pastry has to concede to the sovereignty of the mince pies in the end. Whether choosing Plumb-pudding or mince pies, we hope your Christmas will be joyful and merry! If you would like to taste a morsel of, or, the complete poem; you can try it here digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/Works/CobbEMince.htm

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