Mrs Beeton’s Christmas Pudding Exercise 1
Mrs Beeton’s Christmas Pudding Exercise 1
Before you get to the song, see if you can answer these questions from the introduction given to it.
1 What phrase means ‘days gone by‘ or ‘a time in the past‘?
2 What is the significance of the reference to ‘Cook‘?
3 What is the significance of the mention of spirits?
4 How is the imperial sum of money, worth about 18 pence in decimal coinage, expressed?