For 'Joy' !...Rememberance of her Dad !......

I think that you may like this one....Joy !.. :-))

THE CAT AND THE PUDDING STRING

Sing, sing, what shall I sing?
The cat's run away with the pudding string,
Do, do, what shall I do?
The cat's run away with the pudding too.

Sing, sing, what shall I sing?
Cat's run away with the pudding-string!
Do, do, what shall I do?
The cat has bitten it quite in two.

Sing sing, what shall I sing?
The cat has eat[en] the pudding-string!
Do, do, what shall I do?
The cat has bit[ten] it quite in two.

In this day of convenience foods and microwave or canned puddings, it is
easy to forget how steamed or boiled puddings used to be made. In many
cases, a ball of raw pudding mix went into a muslin square and the muslin
was gathered up and tied shut. The result was a spherical pudding. The
alternative was to steam the pudding in a pudding basin with a foil lid tied
on with string. In either case, the trailing string would have been
irresistible to a playful cat. A cat that dragged the pudding string away
might well have found the pudding still attached, much to cook's dismay! An
alternative version has the cat biting the pudding string in half. The third
variation is even more nonsensical as it has the cat biting the string in
two after eating it.

Goromoff...

you speak of 'a foil lid', Barry. My memories are of an age before
aluminium foil became available, when muslin, cotton or linen cloth formed
the lid over the basin. The string was used to tie wrap the cloth under the
lip of the basin, the 'spare' cloth then being tied back over the top in
the form of a handle. If the cloth was not sufficient, then the string
itself would be used for the handle. Care was always taken in tying the
string so that it might be saved for next time! This is the method I still
prefer.

Then there was 'spotted dick' when the mix was boiled in the cloth and not
in a basin! Now - this reminds me of a story I heard! Later!!!!!!!