Abstract
This chapter describes how Charles Dickens and his wife organized Christmas dinner at Doughty Street in December1838. This was the second and last Christmas spent at Doughty Street. The next was celebrated at their new home in Devonshire Terrace near Regent's Park and Marylebone Road. All through their married life Kate and Charles looked on Christmas as a very important family occasion. Kate always had the table looking bright and pretty and the food presented in the best Christmas tradition. The pudding had its own special dish of colored repousse china ornamented with holly and it came in with the brandy alight and flaming. Charles always did his best to make Christmas a season of generosity and gaiety and later exhorted all scrooges to open their hearts and their purses. The assumed Christmas dinner included giblet soup; turbot with lobster sauce; roasted turkey with boiled ham, bread sauce and cranberry sauce; Christmas pudding with brandy sauce; and assorted nuts, olives, crystallized fruits, mints
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