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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 88, 12 January 1928, Page 11

Plum puddings have grown out of an Elizabethan dish known as plum porridge. This was a similar mixture of fruit, etc., boiled without being put in a basin or tied in a cloth as is the plum pudding of our day. Wassail, a liquor now consisting of ale with .roasted apples, sugar, nutmeg, and toast, received its name from the AngloSaxon phrase,. meaning "may you he in health.’ which was used in drinking a toast in the liquor. Many of the oldest carols were fantastic songs, which preserved curious legends so old that their origin is forgotten. It *5, . < ' otn Pa r atiVely recent yeai-a that Christmas carols became more or less sacred songs.”