E-mail to the Xavier's Staff

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To: [Teacher's/Staff members of Xavier's]
From: [Dutiful daughter]


Staff members,

My mother in her infinite wisdom (See, that's how you get the good Christmas presents.) has decided to get I, her daughter, to grill you all on what food items you would like as Christmas presents. I believe the choice was between, chocolates, brandy custard and Christmas pudding or Fruit cake. Don't worry about overwhelming her with requests, as she's already done a score of Christmas puddings and we seriously need to get rid of them before they brain someone coming into our kitchen.

~L.

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To: [Collins, Laurie]
From: [D'Ancato, Marie]

Tell your mother thank you! That is so incredibly sweet of her. Now I see where you get it :) I would be happy with whatever she likes making best. Are you going to be staying around any during the break or are you going to your mom's for the whole break?

Marie

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To: [D'Ancato, Marie]
From: [Collins, Laurie]

Aww. Thanks. If you wanted some Christmas pudding and some fruit cake, I could bring some of both for you. Mom and I usually make all the puddings about 5 weeks before Christmas. (She and Grandma used to make them all the time for one of the local homeless shelters for their Christmas dinner.) There's always more then enough, since we try to have enough to give as gifts as well. The fruit cake or chocolate trees/snow men are the quick/easy things to make.

And, probably going to be doing a half/half thing. Since Mom is just down the road, I can play it by ear as to whether I want to stay there, or stay here. I'm going to see if I can lure her here for Christmas dinner though. I hear Lorna does amazing things with turkey.

~L.

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To: [Collins, L.]
From: [Forge, JH]

Okay, so... what's Christmas pudding?

JHF

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To: [Forge, JH]
From: [Collins, L.]

Oh, that's right. I forgot it's not really an American thing. My Grandmother was English, so she had the receipe handed down to her from her family. Wikipedia for the win for explanations though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pudding

~L.

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That's very kind of your mother - I think Moira and I would be happy with whatever she'd like to make, although possibly for my sake it shouldn't be anything chocolate. It doesn't make me see the future anymore, but it does seem to leave me with a headache still so I suppose I'm probably still sensitive to it or something.

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To: [Collins, Laurie]
From: [Haller, David]


That's really nice of your mother, Laurie. Chocolates would be appreciated. Chocolate's pretty December-y for me. (I was wondering about the fruit cake since I've never really had it except I think some of the other staff would have some comments.)

If the cooking gets really desperate, you can just stick the leftovers on the counter in the kitchen for public consumption. "Does it have sugar? Is it free? Your mom's kitchen is safe."

. . . although maybe we should make a rule about how many people are allowed to try and set a single pudding on fire first. I mean, the flaming sounds cool and it's traditional but there should be something left to eat after, right?

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to: [worker bee]
from: [seretary bee]

She doesn't need to do anything, really. However, I get the impression that she won't take no for an answer, so perhaps a fruit cake? I think most people are afraid of them :)

Danielle