Eve’s Pudding

Eve’s pudding now is very different to the Eve’s pudding written down by Avis Crocombe. Today, it usually has a base of apples – often Bramleys, the standard cooking apples of Britain, but which were not commercialised until the 1890s – topped with sponge cake. When recipes for it started occurring at the end of the 18th century, however, it was as a mixture of breadcrumbs, eggs and fruit, sometimes with suet as well. Many of the recipes in the manuscript seem to have later