Puddings And Crochet Do Not Mix

This looks both dubious and soggy. A bad combination!

Behold the magic of crochet combined with the steaminess of steamed pudding, from a mid-1960s craft magazine (someone tore it out to save, amazingly enough, so I don’t have a date or magazine name). It is pretty much a given that it’s English though – we don’t much go in for steamed puddings in North America.

Except for plum pudding at Christmas. And back in the day there was Indian pudding in cans. My grandmother had one of those cans blow up all over her kitchen in the 1930s. Major cleaning job ensued.

Which is nothing compared to the second-degree burns that are going to happen if that cotton yarn gets too soggy.

Marshmallow Favors

These are from the McCall’s Family Style Cookbook (1965). They are pretty cute, I will admit. I would have a hard time cutting teeny pieces of black gumdrops and making the eyes and the hippo’s teeth, though.

And I am not letting Leo the Lion near the party balloons.

For the how-to on the Marshmallow Menagerie, why not check out these other posts:

Part 1: Lamb and Piglet

Part 2: Snowman and Turtle

Part 3: Poodle and Hippo

Part 4: Elephant and Lion