[Sca-cooks] Frumenty and plum pudding

[Susan Fox]

I thought that was a bit odd myself.  Well I didn't tell them that and I 
consulted on that show.  In fact, all the shots of someone making plum 
pudding and heaving it in and out of the boiling pot were me, a year ago 
September.

A number of google hits on "plum pudding" "frumenty" seem to imply that 
the unsweetened boiled grain side dish gradually gained sugar, spice and 
sweet fruits and swapped whole grains for batter over the centuries. 
 The same paragraph appears repeatedly without attribution so I can't 
quite say where it came from, but it looks sheerly speculative to me.

Selene

Katja Orlova wrote:

>Greetings,
>   
>  Did anyone else watch The Secret Life of Christmas this week? I was half listening while answering emails, and I heard the host say that medieval frumenty morphed into plum pudding in later centuries in England.
>   
>  Has anyone else ever read this or heard this? The correlation seems really odd to me.
>   
>  toodles, Katja
>