Royalty ever after elevated the dessert as part of an English Christmas tradition, including George I, dubbed the Pudding King. In the Victorian era of the 1800s, it spread from royalty to the ...

via Fortnum and Mason The moniker was more accurate in the 16th century, when it referred to a simple pudding made from clotted cream mixed with sugar and rosewater. But in the Victorian era ...

The Christmas pudding we recognise today is a Victorian dish made from suet, dried fruit, candied peel, breadcrumbs, spices, egg and grated carrots and apples. The Victorians shaped their puddings ...

They are held in the college archives Late Victorian students fuelled their ... menu books which date from 1896 to 1903. A hearty pudding of some sort was always served for dinner.