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H&J Christmas Pudding 2009
Monday September 21st 2009
Back in January, Patrick set the team a challenge which was to create the ultimate pudding for Christmas 2009. At the time this was nigh on impossible to think of, as we had all consumed several kilos of pud the week before, on top of the turkey and all the trimmings! However Patrick was adamant that “this year not a bought-in Christmas pudding will be eaten by our customers.”
The gauntlet had been thrown down and all our H&J sites rose to the challenge and sent in their recipes for the ”Long Acre Posse” judgement day.
The top eight tastiest sounding recipes were chosen, whipped up and cooked in time for them to be tested by Patrick and Nathan… on a baking hot July day! With the sound of carols drowning out the ice cream van tinkling on the street, Patrick, Nathan and the Operations team bravely consumed spoon after spoon of Christmas pudding, surrounded by baubles, tinsel , fake snow and the obligatory fairy lights.
All eight recipes went down a storm and the final version was subject to a few H&J tweaks. With Nathan and Patrick full-bellied and full of summery Christmas cheer, the date was set for an old fashioned “stir up Sunday”.
Traditionally on the Sunday before Advent, family members would take it in turns to stir the Christmas pudding, with each person making a wish at the same time – this was called “Stir Up Sunday”. This family tradition will be embraced by all the H&J sites, who each will hold their own “Stir Up days” in November using the H&J Christmas pudding recipe and inviting the on-site catering team, clients and customers to be part of the event.
Not only will we be serving up our very own H & J Christmas pudding across all our sites this year during the run up to Christmas, we will be placing 100 special edition St Paul’s Cathedral coins at random in the three thousand odd puddings we are making. The lucky finder of one of these commemorative St Paul’s coins will be entitled to lunch for two (excluding alcohol) during the month of January at the Restaurant at St Paul’s Cathedral.
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