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Key facts
- Alternative names
- Plum pudding, pud
- Type
- Pudding cake
- Place of origin
- England
- Serving temperature
- Warm or cold
- Main ingredients
- Breadcrumbs , dried fruit , sugar , treacle , suet , spices
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Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 56 products
- Energy
- 344 kcal
- Fat
- 10 g
- — of which saturates
- 5.7 g
- Carbohydrates
- 54.1 g
- — of which sugars
- 38.7 g
- Fibre
- 5.8 g
- Protein
- 3.5 g
- Salt
- 0.54 g
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- Christmas pudding.JPG
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Christmas pudding is a sweet boiled or steamed pudding traditionally served as part of Christmas dinner in Britain. It has its origins in medieval England, with early recipes making use of dried fruit, suet, breadcrumbs, flour, eggs and spice, along with liquid such as milk or fortified wine. Later, recipes became more elaborate. In 1845, cookery writer Eliza Acton wrote the first recipe for a dish called "Christmas pudding".
The dish is sometimes known as plum pudding (though this can also refer to other kinds of boiled pudding involving dried fruit). The word "plum" was used then for what has been called a "raisin" since the 18th century, and the pudding does not contain plums in the modern sense of the word.