Christmas Pudding

No British Christmas table would be complete without a flaming Christmas pudding. Originally called simply plum pudding (in the past, plum referred to any type of dried fruit), it was eaten throughout the winter and was so utterly associated with roast beef that the two were used as visual shorthand for Britishness in satires of the eighteenth century. They were served simultaneously and work very well eaten together. Roast beef and plum pudding were celebration dishes, which meant C