For @snapecelebration’s Snolidays 2022 Week 2 “Tradition”, inspired by the prompts “Anticipation”, “Family”, and “Feast”.
Severus personally preferred blancmange, but, as Lily was keen on anything that involved dramatically setting something on fire, he had learned how to prepare a traditional figgy pudding just for her. Petunia’s terror was just the holly on top.
Harry was highly partial to treacle tart and all of the other sweets he’d been denied before Hogwarts- he was even willing to (under Snape’s close supervision) eat an extra large helping of Brussels sprouts in order to obtain his serving of Christmas Pudding. Seeing his Potions Professor in a frilly pink apron demanding affection to be directed, per the partially unstitched embroidery, to a rooster, was worth an entire cauldron full of sprouts.
