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Yes well back in those days it was simple home cooking. Stores didn't bombard you with junk food offers as soon as you walked in, and there were no stores like that. People cooked up what they had seen their mothers cook up, and their grandparents. And the recipes were fairly simple and passed down. But it was that "special something" in the cooking that made one cake or pudding better than another. Sometimes it was as simple as cold fingers mixing the pastry, or ice water to mix it.
And the plums or apples would usually have been bottled (canned) from the previous August/September when they were gathered, to preserve for winter cooking or just to eat on their own!
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