Tattercoats

A great lord had no living relatives except a little granddaughter, and because her mother, his daughter, had died in childbirth, he swore that he would never look at her. He sat in his castle and cried because of the death of his daughter. The granddaughter grew up with noone to love or care for her, and was called "Tattercoats" for her ragged clothing. She spent her days in the fields with only a gooseherd for a friend. One day, her grandfather was invited to a royal ball. Tattercoat's old nurse begged for him to take Tattercoats, but he refused to. So, the gooseherd insisted that Tattercoats and himslef, with his geese should go to the ball. A nicely dressed man, stopped them on the way and asked them the way to the city. When he heard they were going there, he walked along with them, and asked Tattercoats to marry him.fell deeply in love with Tattercoats, and aked her to marry him. He then told her to come to the ball at 12 to dance with him. She went to the ball that night with the goosherd and all his geese. Everyone stared, but the prince, who was the nicely dressed young man, rose up and told his father that this was the woman he wished to marry. The gooseherd played on his pipe, and all Tattercoats's clothing was changed into shining robes. Everyone approved, and the prince married her. The gooseherd vanished and was never seen again and Tattercoats's grandfather, because he had vowed never to look on her, went back to his castle and is still crying there.



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**__ Traditional English Food __** ** Trifle- An English Homemade Pudding ** __**Ingredients**__
 * 2 (8 or 9 inch) white cake layers, baked and cooled
 * 2 pints fresh strawberries
 * 1/4 cup white sugar
 * 1 pint fresh blueberries
 * 2 bananas
 * 1/4 cup orange juice
 * 1 (3.5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
 * 2 cups milk
 * 1 cup heavy whipping cream
 * 1/4 cup blanched slivered almonds
 * 12 maraschino cherries
 * __Instructions__ **
 * 1) Slice strawberries and sprinkle them with sugar. Cut the bananas into slices and toss with orange juice. Combine pudding mix with milk and mix until smooth. Cut the cake into 1 inch cubes.
 * 2) Use half of the cake cubes to line the bottom of a large glass bowl. Layer half of the strawberries followed by half of the blueberries, and then half of the bananas. Spread half of the pudding over the fruit. Repeat layers in the same order.
 * 3) In a medium bowl, whip the cream to stiff peaks and spread over top of trifle. Garnish with maraschino cherries and slivered almonds.

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