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Plum Porridge for Christmas

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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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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Writing in 1747 in The art of cookery, Hannah Glasse has a recipe for 'Plum Porridge for Christmas'. The same book also includes a recipe for ‘boiled plum pudding’ a few pages later, with no festive connection.

For some reason, this Christmas Porridge fell out of favour in the following years, as Plum Puddings became more popular. The latest recipe found by C.Anne Wilson was in The Cook & Housewife’s Manual by Margaret Dods in 1826, which described the porridge as a Scottish recipe.

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