Thomas Farriner Thomas Farriner Thomas Farriner was a baker in 17th century London. His bakery in Pudding Lane was the source point for the Great Fire of London on 2 September 1666. Farriner joined the Baker's Company in 1637, and had his own shop by 1649. By the time of the Great Fire of London Thomas Farriner was a well known baker in the City of London, who provided bread for the Royal Navy during the Anglo-Dutch war. He was also a churchwarden. Thomas Farriner and his children escaped the fire but his maid perished in the flames. Following the fire he
Christmas pudding the pudding up and bring it in... Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper which smells like a washing-day. That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding. In half a minute 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-quarter of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top." Christmas puddings have very good keeping