FIRST CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS
The eating of plum pudding at Christmas-time is a comparatively modern custom, for it is only during the last two hundred years that it has been the practice.
In very ancient times small cakes made in the form of the human body were eaten at Christmas. These were to represent the Infant Jesus. As years weut by, these cakes became
larger, and the shape changed into that of a huge pie. The ingredients also changed, until they included all sorts of good things, such as eggs, currants, raisins and sugar.
These large pies were shaped like a manger, and the contents were supposed to represent the gifts of the Three Wise Men. In time this shape changed also, and nowadays our puddings are mostly roly poly.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 17
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129FIRST CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 17
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