As for the filling, I first tried with the usual raspberry jam, and then with a quick home-made plum jam (8 stoned, chopped plums, 4-5 tbsp sugar, and 25 minutes simmering).

“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 ...

As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas pudding was something of a shock. I had expected figs or plums, as in the “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” carol ...

There’s something about a British Christmas that feels just right. It is, in fact, very much our cup of tea. The holiday canon is chockablock with classic and contemporary books and movies that ...

The Bake Off's youngest contestant, 20-year-old Ruby Tandoh, admitted she had only eaten a suet pudding once. She chose to make her jam roly-poly with vegetarian suet.

In 1845, just two years after the publication of A Christmas Carol, cookery writer Eliza Acton offered up four plum pudding recipes in Modern Cookery for Private Families, two of which are ...

Deliciously stodgy British pudding recipes. ... such as jam roly poly, often involve suet and I urge you to use the real stuff rather ... Roly poly is a classic pudding, but it relies on a great jam.

From plum crumble to jam and chutney, we’ve got plenty of plum-packed recipe ideas. British plums are soft-fleshed and loose-stoned and can be divided into two groups: sweet ‘dessert ...

By the mid-19th century, plum pudding seems to have become an exclusively Christmas dish. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase "Christmas-pudding" in 1858 in a novel ...

Plum pudding! It’s one of those quintessential English customs that never made the transition to American culture.It’s possible it never made the trans-Atlantic voyage with the early settlers.

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