Speech House Pudding

Miss Beaumont, of Sidmouth, Devon, says: ‘This was given to a brother of mine at a little inn in the Forest of Dean. He thought the pudding good, and asked for the recipe. The name also is interesting.’

The Speech House was one of six old lodges, and from earliest times its site was used for holding the Forest Law Courts. An annual festival is held here, and Miss Beaumont adds ‘I believe the oath was taken on a sprig of holly — or mistletoe? — inste