Liquid fuel fires can be very dangerous, so plan ahead if you want to set your pudding on fire. And remember: more fuel isn’t ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Plum pudding never did contain fresh plums. The “plumbs” of pudding recipes in the 16th century were dried ...

A very nice and most reliable recipe, which my mother always made. Because of the simplicity of the recipe we often enjoyed this pudding as a Sunday treat, not just as Christmas time. Place all of the ...

The latest instalment of our holiday baking series takes us to plum pudding, that gooey sweet treat born out of medieval England. Plum pudding has no plum, but features instead raisins, which were ...

It’s frequently claimed that the origins of plum pudding lie in plum pottage, a savoury, medieval concoction made from oats, beans, and scraps of meat and fish, served at the start of the meal. Food ...