[Sca-cooks] Re plum pudding

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Devra at aol.com:
>         Lorna Sass (Dinner with Tom Jones) cites a Hannah Glasse recipe for
>this, but I seem to remember (in her historical Christmas feast book) a
>somewhat earlier recipe for a plum porridge...
>      Devra, with a mind like an old attic

Hannah Glasse has recipes for both plumb pudding (her spelling) and 
plum porridge (the latter being a barley gruel enriched and sweetened 
with dried fruit, spiced with mace). As I recall, what Sass says in 
her Christmas Feasts book is that Plum Pudding predates the 19th 
century (and Hannah Glasse seems to prove this), but that it was not 
until the 19th century that the plum pudding supplanted the plum 
porridge as a widespread Christmas tradition in England. Neither 
recipe contains plums, BTW.

Adamantius

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