COOKING SUCCESS
Mrs. Cratchit is credited with successfully preparing the Christmas pudding, which is admired by the whole family and regarded as her greatest achievement since marriage.
MRS. CRATCHIT
Mrs. Cratchit left the room alone--too nervous to bear witnesses--to take the pudding up, and bring it in... Mrs. Cratchit entered--flushed, but smiling proudly--with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top. Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage.