What is the Christmas pudding?
Christmas pudding is a type of desserts traditionally consumed in Britain after Christmas meals. The English enjoyed some form or other of this traditional Christmas dish since the beginning of the 14th century. Traditional Christmas pudding probably evolved from meals such as fruments, a mixture of meat similar to porridge, dried fruit and spices that were widely consumed during the medieval Christmas season. The Christmas pudding could also develop from the ground cakes of medieval people ready to help their meat and fruit during the winter, because these cakes contained many of the same ingredients used today in Christmas pudding. Some believe that the production and serving of food is of religious importance and its traditional ingredients are often items that have been expensive and rare in the Middle Ages.
most believe that a solid Christmas pudding, placing crumbs and eggs, probably developed around 1600. Eat ChristmasEye dessert containing meat, fruit and spices and flavored with beer, wine or alcohol was probably considered traditional in England. Historians believe that the development of Christmas pudding began when the Roman Catholic Church encouraged English families to create and consume this holiday treatment. Traditional Christmas pudding is said to contain 13 ingredients, one representing each of the 12 apostles and one representing Jesus Christ. The pudding was to be invented on the last Sunday before the Christian Advent season, and each member of the household was to turn a mixture of pudding, from east to west, as a tribute to the three wise men mentioned in the Christian story of Christ.
Traditional recreational pudding, as it is consuming today, probably did not appear until Victorian times. This pudding is usually made of suet, fruit, nuts, flour and sugar and is usually spicy with a series of spices, liqueurs and wines. It can be decorated with sugar or holly before serving. Most British families like to pour brandy or otherLiqueur over the Christmas pudding and lights it before he solemnly introduces him to the table.
Small coins and small items were traditionally cooked into the pudding to find it. It is said that the coin brings in the coming year to the finding of wealth, while the ring suggests that they are coming to the upcoming weddings. It is said that a small anchor cooked into the pudding brings the finder of safety, while the escape bless the finders with a modest spirit. Bones of a small wish are also sometimes cooked into the Christmas pudding and is said to bring the finders of the annual happiness.