ORIGIN OF THE PLUM PUDDING

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 16

ORIGIN OF THE PLUM PUDDING

The exact origin of the plum pudding as a Christmas dainly is involved in » considerable amount of mystery. One thing_ is certain, however, the first plum pudding did not come from Plumpuddintr Island, though there is a spot on the I globe which bears this exhilarating name. There is an idea current in learned circles that the first plum pudding time into being in Bosnia, when that country was. part of Turkey, and that, paradoxical as it rounds,. it was not a plum pudding at all. That is, not at the start. Bosnia is espacially rich hi plums, and the people were in tho habit of cooking them in a sort of steiv,^ into which they mixed literally everything edible- Ih'py could lav hands on. It wa6.as "plum pomdgfl 1' that ■ the'-vjiant was' firsl; known in John Bull's home. It was cookod as a fluid mass, and was eaten out of basins and soup plates. It is only within oompara-tivelj recent times that it has assumed the cannon-ball aspect with which wo are so dearly familiar..