This year, inspired by British traditions ... The ancestry of today’s Christmas pudding goes back centuries, starting with medieval plum pottage, a stew with beef, spices and dried fruit ...

To complete the festive feast are two sumptuous desserts. Mary’s traditional British Christmas pudding recipe goes back to Medieval times – a rich mix of dried fruit and nuts which is steamed ...

Or would that be your idea of a Christmas nightmare? The Christmas pudding is a quintessential part of British culinary history, with roots that date back to medieval times. But the pud as we know ...

Since that time, the traditional smells of Christmas — sage and onion gravy, plum pudding, steaming punch — in British homes have always mingled with a faint trace of mercuric fulminate.

The British version features smoked fish like mackerel, boiled eggs, peas, and herbs. You can find variations of pease pudding — lentils or split peas that have been boiled down and puréed ...

Easter is almost like a half-Christmas celebration ... Using the idea of a classic British bread and butter pudding, Jane swaps out slices of bread or brioche for halved hot cross buns.

Using Christmas pudding and madeira cake for the base and swapping jelly for tropical fruit makes it rich and sumptuous. Make sure you use a good, thick custard and leave time to allow it to set ...

You can probably list off all the traditions when you think of a British Christmas ... Here are five Christmas mysteries unwrapped. Mince pies, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding… we all love ...