Plum Pudding
“Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September.” ‘Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea’ Marion Harland [Mary Virginia Terhune] (1875)
“....the art of cooking as practiced by Englishmen does not extend much beyond roast beef and plum pudding.” Pehr KalmSwedish visitor to England (1748)
|