The Christmas pudding is more than a dessert; it's a slice of history and a piece of religious symbolism all doused in custard and brandy.

Rather than a dessert, this plum pottage appeared as a pre-meal ... were at one time considered "modern," at least compared to Medieval pudding casings made with animal parts (similar to sausage ...

The ancestry of today’s Christmas pudding goes back centuries, starting with medieval plum pottage, a stew with beef, spices and dried fruit, food historian Annie Gray explained to the BBC.

Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two older, at least medieval, dishes. The first was a runny porridge known as “plum pottage” in which any mixture of meats, dried fruits ...

In Medieval England, around the 1540s ... By the 17th Century Christmas pudding was known as plum pudding. This is even though plums were never an ingredient. In fact, back then plums were ...

Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two older, at least medieval, dishes. The first was a runny porridge known as “plum pottage” in which any mixture of meats, dried fruits and ...

A medieval porridge known as ‘frumenty ... This recipe shifted from savoury to a sweet dessert known as plum pudding leading up to the 19th Century - there were still no actual plums, however, ...