It was....decided to bake the pudding for 1859 in no fewer
than eight sections....
.. this pudding was to consist of:
573 lbs of flour
191 lbs of bread
382 lbs of raisins
191 lbs of currants
382 lbs of suet
320 lemons
144 nutmegs
95 lbs of sugar
A quantity of eggs
360 quarts of milk.
The cost was £45.00.
Nor was that all.....there were provided 1,900 lbs of meat,
1,900 lbs of bread, and an unlimited supply of the staple product of the
Paignton Orchards – cider! The recipients of this generosity were to be the
poor of the local parishes....
From John Lucas’s essay called Uprisings in the South West, published in
the 2011 anthology entitled Maps.
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