Christmas Pudding History: the REAL reason it's eaten at Christmas!

Christmas (and the food that goes with it) is almost upon us and to celebrate we're having one of our "funny" looks at the history of the Christmas pudding. The pudding is often seen as something typically Victorian and straight out of Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" but it is actually goes back to the middle ages and has a very storied history.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:58 - Three questions
00:17 - Origins
09:17 - Why so British?
15:15 - Why is it a Christmas thing?
23:23 - Seamen pudding

Sources and Literature:
The Forme of Cury
Hartley, D. (1975). Food in England
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/arc...
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/li...
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
https://ornc.org/stories/george-i-pud...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...
https://britishfoodhistory.com/tag/ch...

If you want to make the Cambridge pudding get the recipe here: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb0...

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