17^th Century: Sussex Pond Pudding

The Sussex pond pudding is still popular in Britain today. It is basically the same as the Kentish well pudding, which appears later in cookery books. The two counties share a border so it would make sense for the pudding to be popular in Kent too; however its current appearance is somewhat different from the original. Not only would this pudding have been boiled in intestine casings and later in cloth, but it had never enclosed a whole lemon until quite recently when