Christmas Pudding Tradition

Many different traditions and customs have come up with plum pudding some of which we still observe today.

Christmas pudding tradition. Stirring the pudding for luck stir up sunday was traditionally the sunday before advent 4 5 weeks before christmas when the christmas pudding was made. Christmas pudding originated as a 14th century porridge called frumenty that was made of beef and mutton with raisins currants prunes. Christmas or plum pudding is the traditional end to the british christmas dinner. Christmas pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as part of the christmas dinner in the uk ireland and in other countries where it has been brought by british and irish immigrants.

Everyone in the household was expected to give the pudding mixture a stir and to make a wish while stirring. No british christmas is complete without a christmas pudding. Adding silver coins into plum pudding is a fun christmas tradition. But what we think of as christmas pudding is not what it was originally like.

A traditional christmas pudding this is quite definitely the best and like the christmas cake has been made and loved by a cast of thousands over forty years. If you ve never made a christmas pudding please don t be put off by the eight hours steaming it isn t any work it just sits happily on its own getting the long slow cooking which is what gives it such wonderful flavour. By this time the pudding looked and tasted much as it does today and the point of difference between a traditional christmas cake and a christmas pudding is the pudding contains suet and is steamed rather than baked. Have a glance at some of the most exciting and well known christmas pudding traditions.

The tradition of christmas pudding did not appear in england until introduced to the victorians by prince albert husband of queen victoria. Unlike american puddings a christmas pudding is a dark sticky and dense sponge more like a fruitcake made of mixed dried fruit candied fruit peel apple and citrus zests. The christmas pudding tradition apparently has royal roots introduced by prince albert and queen victoria. As with many english derived christmas traditions the standard form for christmas pudding solidified during the victorian era when english journalists political leaders and novelists not least.

It has its origins in medieval england and is sometimes known as plum pudding or just pud though this can also refer to other kinds of boiled pudding involving dried fruit. Brandy and spices provide a deep complex flavor and signature dark color. The christmas pudding coin.