Alternative names Christmas pudding Region or state England Place of origin United Kingdom | Type Pudding Main ingredients Figs Main ingredient Fig | |
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Similar Christmas pudding, Hard sauce, Common fig, Pudding, Sticky toffee pudding | ||
Figgy pudding
Figgy pudding is a type of Christmas pudding which was originally made with figs. It may be baked, steamed in the oven, boiled or fried.
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Figgy pudding dates back to 16th century England. Its possible ancestors include savory puddings, such as crustades, fygeye or figge (a potage of mashed figs thickened with bread), creme boiled (a kind of stirred custard), and sippets (croutons). In any case, its methods and ingredients appear in diverse older recipes, for instance in Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management.
Today, the term figgy pudding is popularized mainly by the Christmas carol "We Wish You A Merry Christmas," which includes the line, "Now bring us some figgy pudding". A variety of nineteenth-century sources state that, in the West Country of England (from which the carol comes), "figgy pudding" referred to a raisin or plum pudding, not necessarily one containing figs.
How to make a festive figgy pudding
