Christmas pudding
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Christmas pudding or plum pudding is a steamed dessert that originated in the 1420s and is served on Christmas Day (December 25). It tastes like steamed pudding, with lots of dried fruits and nuts, and made with suet (animal fat). It is eaten in large amounts during the Christmas holidays. It is a traditional food to have at Christmas.
Christmas Pudding Media
Christmas pudding decorated with skimmia rather than holly.
A traditional bag-boiled Christmas pudding still showing the "skin"
Christmas pudding from Bracknell, Berkshire.
Christmas puddings are often dried out on hooks for weeks prior to serving in order to enhance the flavour. This pudding has been prepared with a traditional cloth rather than a basin.
Traditionally, every member of the household stirs the pudding, while making a wish.
A Christmas pudding being flamed after brandy has been poured over it
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Other websites
- Christmas pudding Nutrition facts Archived 2010-12-11 at the Wayback Machine