Threepence – most desired prize at Christmas
Camden Nana’s baking dish,
Flavours of years released into
The great Christmas Day roast.
In this little house in Elderslie
Everything feels just …
Well, … just right!!
Excitement mounts for the piece-de-resistance.
The plum pudding, where threepences hide
And discovery invokes little feet to run to Mum:
“Mum, I found one!”
365 Short Memories 
Would you believe, this year I made my first Christmas pudding for the sole reason of including the threepence and sixpences I inherited from my mum. Nostalgia! Not quite the same as when we were kids though…all those tucking in were more worried about breaking their teeth!
Aaaah! I can imagine that. I thought this was so good and so much fun back then. You know I thought Nana cooked the pudding with the threepences in it and always marvelled and how we all ended up with the same number each … or sometimes the older kids got 1 extra … then I year I realised the threepences were inserted after the pudding was dished up!! That was a disappointing discover.
Our family pudding always included the silver in the cooking…and I did this year also. One youngster this year couldn’t understand why he had to give the money back for next years attempt…”and what sort of money is it anyway?!”