19^th Century: College Puddings

James Woodforde, the diarist who has told us much about food of the eighteenth century, entertained six guests at ‘New College’ Oxford on 27 July 1774: ‘We were very merry and pushed the Bottle very briskly. I gave my Company for dinner, some green Pea Soup, a chine of Mutton, some New College Puddings, a goose, some Peas and a Codlin Tart with Cream.’ (The Diary of a Country Parson, 1758–1802.) The ‘New College Puddi