This plum pudding recipe is a take on a classic: Steamed cakes like this are a fixture on a traditional British Christmas table, popular around the holidays since at least the Middle Ages.

People sing about it in 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas.' Charles Dickens wrote about it in 'A Christmas Carol.' But what ...

Plum pudding is an old-fashioned English dessert. It does not contain plums but is made with several fruits and raisins that ...

Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is, it was roughly the same consistency throughout, with negatively-charged electrons scattered about in it like raisins in a pudding.

Place the plum mixture into the pudding basin and cover with greaseproof paper or a pudding cloth. Secure the paper or cloth with kitchen string. Using a pan with a lid large enough to comfortably ...