Plum Pudding
What is plum pudding anyway? It’s somewhat of a misnomer because it doesn’t actually have plums in it and it isn’t the spoonable custardy pudding we know in the modern U.S. So let’s travel back in time to 17th century England. The word “plum” just meant any dried fruit and the word “pudding” referred to a dessert. So in modern American English, I suppose we’d call it “dried fruit dessert”. But that doesn’t sound as appetizing as plum pudding, does it? Back then, puddings were desserts that were tied up in a cloth and boiled in a pot of water. This type of dessert was more common among the lower class because many of them didn’t have ovens, so this made for a nice dessert that only required a fire and a pot for cooking. It wasn’t until the 1830s that plum pudding as we know it today came around. It was then that it also took on the name Christmas Pudding.
