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It was made as bread pudding, by soaking stale bread in milk then adding suet, candied citron, nutmeg, eggs, raisins and brandy. The dish is sometimes known as plum pudding [1] [2] (though this can also refer to other kinds of boiled pudding involving dried fruit). A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. Fifty years later, England’s first German-born ruler, George I, was styled the “pudding king” after rumors surfaced of his request to serve plum pudding at his first English Christmas banquet.
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In 1885 a British newspaper reported the joyful consumption of a plum pudding—sent overland via special envoy from Tehran—by a group of British soldiers stationed in northwestern Afghanistan.By the end of the 16th century, dried fruit was more plentiful in England and plum pudding made the shift from savory to sweet. Learn how to draw a great looking Christmas Pudding with easy, step-by-step drawing instructions, and video tutorial.
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It is soaked in alcohol and allowed to mature for days, weeks, or sometimes up to a year before being served on the holiday table.
Other tokens are also known to have been included, such as a tiny wishbone (to bring good luck), a silver thimble (for thrift) or an anchor (to symbolise safe harbour). a b c d e f g h Broomfield, Andrea (2007) Food and cooking in Victorian England: a history Archived 27 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine pp.