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Across the Atlantic, where fruitcake’s own fortunes have waned in recent decades, Christmas pudding remains a curiosity known primarily from films, books and song lyrics, and is associated with Christmas crackers, paper crowns, Bob Cratchit and Boxing Day. The pudding-bag, in which the pudding is twice-boiled, is often replaced with molds shaped like a half-melon or bundt cake. Darran McGrady Eating Royally: Recipes and Remembrances from a Palace Kitchen Archived 27 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine p. 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. He will be followed by the High Commissioners of the Dominions, and afterwards the general public will have the chance of stirring it".

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This led to the custom of preparing Christmas puddings on that day which became known as Stir-up Sunday, associated with the stirring of the Christmas pudding.Essentially the recipe brings together what traditionally were expensive or luxurious ingredients— notably the sweet spices that are so important in developing its distinctive rich aroma, and usually made with suet. The final recipe included Australian currants, South African stoned raisins, Canadian apples, Jamaican rum and English Beer, among other ingredients all sourced from somewhere in the Empire.

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One of the earliest plum pudding recipes is given by Mary Kettilby in her 1714 book A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery.

It can be eaten with hard sauce (usually brandy butter or rum butter), cream, lemon cream, ice cream, custard, or sweetened béchamel, and is sometimes sprinkled with caster sugar. It was made as bread pudding, by soaking stale bread in milk then adding suet, candied citron, nutmeg, eggs, raisins and brandy.

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By the 19th century the ingredients were more or less standardized to suet, brown sugar, raisins and currents, candied orange peel, eggs, breadcrumbs, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and plenty of alcohol. To serve, the pudding is reheated by steaming once more, and may be dressed with warm brandy which is set alight. But for the uninitiated, Christmas puddings are eyed with skepticism befitting a dish that can be accurately described as a cross between a fruitcake and a haggis, set on fire. citation needed] It is a common dish in Australia, [15] New Zealand, [ citation needed] Canada, and South Africa. We won't go until we get some, we won't go until we get some, we won't go until we get some, so bring it right here.Then as now, the “plum” in plum pudding was a generic term for any dried fruit—most commonly raisins and currants, with prunes and other dried, preserved or candied fruit added when available. In 1931, an annual Christmas market for the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals was held at the Royal Albert Hall on 24 and 25 November.