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A brief history of Christmas Pudding

Plum Pudding Mrs Beeton Colour
View examples from books in the University of Leeds Cookery Collection illustrating the stories behind some traditional Christmas dishes, and look at the variety of ways in which people have celebrated Christmas over the centuries.
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Triumphs and Trophies, Robert May
Robert May's description of a Christmas Party
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Mince Pyes of Stinking Meat
Mince pie recipe - stinking meat
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Vegetarian Christmas Recipes 1914
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Rotherham Food Advisory Bureau Christmas Recipes
Second World War home front Christmas
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Plum Pudding Mrs Beeton Colour
Origins of the Christmas Pudding
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First Christmas pudding recipe
Recipe for earliest ancestor of Christmas Pudding
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Hannah Glasse recipe for Plum Porridge.
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James Gillray 'Plumb-pudding in danger' cartoon.
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The plum pudding becomes a Christmas dish.
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Christmas Pudding T-Shirt
The ubiquity of the Christmas pudding today
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The evolution of many traditional Christmas dishes can be traced through recipes found in the University of Leeds Cookery Collection.

The history of Christmas Pudding, one of the most ritualised of all Christmas dishes, is especially interesting. Everything from the ingredients themselves, to the ritual of preparation and the method of cooking Christmas Pudding can seem antique, as though this is a tradition stretching back over centuries, but like much else associated with Christmas today, the Christmas Pudding originated in the 19th century and was a Victorian invention.