“Then plum pottage, much like our beloved mince pies, took shape over the 17 th and 18 th centuries, as the recipe’s meat was gradually left out in favor of suet. It was the invention of the ...

Plum pudding is an old-fashioned English dessert. It does not contain plums but is made with several fruits and raisins that used to be referred to as plums in olden times. We also use a mold to ...

While figgy pudding is a popular name for this dessert, it's sometimes referred to as plum pudding or Christmas pudding. This is due to other types of dried fruit being used in this dessert beyond ...

Plum pudding can trace its origins back to at least the Middle Ages, when it had a less sturdy consistency. There’s a recipe in The Forme of Cury (believed to date from the late 14th century, ...

Traditional Irish Christmas plum pudding recipe. Ingredients: 10 eggs; 1 cup white flour; 4 teaspoon cinnamon; 2 teaspoons allspice; 2 teaspoons nutmeg; 4 ounces chopped almond pieces ...

Whether called plum pudding or figgy pudding — famed in song — they are basically the same. The good news is that it can be made ahead, wrapped well and frozen, then thawed and reheated.

Sometimes called plum pudding, Christmas pudding is made with dried fruits, egg, fat of some sort, brandy and molasses, spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger.

Plum pudding was steamed prior to serving to make it moist and therefore edible. My theory is that cooks soon learned they could keep the pudding moist and preserve it by soaking it in liqueur.