Pudding
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Pudding is a type of food. It can be either a dessert, served after the main meal, or a savoury (salty or spicy) dish, served as part of the main meal.
In the
In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries, the word pudding is used to describe sweet and savoury dishes. Savoury puddings include Yorkshire pudding, black pudding, suet pudding and steak and kidney pudding. Unless qualified, however, pudding usually means dessert and in the United Kingdom, pudding is used as a synonym for dessert.[1] Puddings made for dessert can be boiled and steamed puddings, baked puddings, bread puddings, batter puddings, milk puddings or even jellies.[2]
In some Commonwealth countries these puddings are known as custards (or curds) if they are egg-thickened, as blancmange if starch-thickened, and as jelly if gelatin-based. Pudding may also refer to other dishes such as bread pudding and rice pudding, although typically these names derive from their origin as British dishes.
Etymology
The word pudding is believed to come from the French boudin, which may derive from the Latin botellus, meaning "small sausage", referring to encased meats used in medieval European puddings.[3][2] Another proposed etymology is from the West German 'pud' meaning 'to swell'.[2]
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word 'pudding' dates to the thirteenth century. It refers to the entrails or stomach of a sheep, pig or other animal stuffed with meat, offal, suet, oatmeal and seasonings.[4] By the 1500s the word was used to refer to the guts or entrails or the contents of other people's stomachs especially when pierced with a sword, as in battle.[5] The Oxford English Dictionary describes puddings also as 'A boiled, steamed or baked dish made with various sweet (or sometimes) savoury ingredients added to the mixture, typically including milk, eggs, and flour (or other starchy ingredients such as suet, rice, semolina, etc.), enclosed within a crust made from such a mixture'.[4]
Savoury and sweet
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Savoury puddings
The modern usage of the word pudding to mean a dessert has evolved from the almost exclusive use of the term to describe a savoury dish, specifically those created using a process similar to sausages, where meat and other ingredients in a mostly liquid form are encased and then steamed or boiled to set the contents. The most famous examples still surviving are black pudding and haggis. Other savoury dishes include suet pudding and steak and kidney pudding. Boiled or steamed pudding was a common main course aboard ships in the Royal Navy during the 18th and 19th centuries; pudding was used as the primary dish in which daily rations of flour and suet were employed.
Dessert puddings
Commonwealth dessert puddings are rich, fairly homogeneous starch- or dairy-based desserts such as rice pudding or steamed cake mixtures such as treacle sponge pudding (with or without the addition of ingredients such as dried fruits as in a Christmas pudding).[1]
In the United States and some parts of Canada, pudding characteristically denotes a sweet milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based
History
One of the first documented mentions of pudding can be found in Homer's Odyssey where a blood pudding roasted in a pig's stomach is described.[4] This original meaning of a pudding as a sausage is retained in black pudding, which is a blood sausage originating in the United Kingdom and Ireland made from pork or beef blood, with pork fat or beef suet, and a cereal.[6]
Another early documented recipe for pudding is a reference to
In the United Kingdom and some of the Commonwealth countries, the word pudding can be used to describe both sweet and savoury dishes. Unless qualified, however, the term in everyday usage typically denotes a dessert; in the United Kingdom, pudding is used as a synonym for a dessert course.[1]
Puddings had their 'real heyday...', according to food historian Annie Gray, '...from the seventeenth century onward'. It is argued that 'the future of the boiled suet pudding as one of England's national dishes was assured only when the pudding cloth came into use' and although puddings boiled in cloths may have been mentioned in the medieval era[10][2] one of the earliest mentions is in 1617 in a recipe for Cambridge pudding, a pudding cloth is indicated; 'throw your pudding in, being tied in a fair cloth; when it is boiled enough, cut it in the midst, and so serve it in'.[3][11]
The pudding cloth is said, according to food historian C. Anne Wilson, to have revolutionised puddings. 'The invention of the pudding-cloth or bag finally severed the link between puddings and animal guts. Puddings could now be made at any time, and they became a regular part of the daily fare of almost all classes. Recipes for them proliferated.'[3]
Types
Baked, steamed, and boiled puddings
The original pudding was formed by mixing various ingredients with a
Steamed pies consisting of a filling completely enclosed by suet pastry are also known as puddings. These may be sweet or savoury and include such dishes as steak and kidney pudding.
Savoury
- Batter puddings
- Black pudding
- Boudin
- Cheese pudding
- Corn pudding
- Dock pudding
- Goetta
- Groaty pudding
- Haggis
- Kishke
- Kugel
- Livermush
- Moin moin
- Pease pudding
- Pennsylvania Dutch hog maw
- Polenta (mămăligă, cornmeal mush)
- Red pudding
- Scrapple
- Spoon bread
- Steak and kidney pudding
- Toad in the hole
- White pudding
- Yorkshire pudding
Dessert
- Bread pudding
- Bread and butter pudding
- Butterscotch pudding, flavored blancmange
- Cabinet pudding
- Cambridge pudding
- Chè
- Crème caramel
- Chicken pudding
- Chocolate pudding
- plum pudding)
- Clootie dumpling
- Cottage pudding
- Indian pudding
- Figgy duff (pudding)
- Figgy pudding
- Fruit pudding
- Hasty pudding
- Jam roly-poly
- Kentish cherry batter pudding
- Lemon delicious pudding
- Persimmon pudding
- Rice pudding
- Sago pudding
- Semolina pudding
- Spotted dick
- Sticky toffee pudding
- Summer pudding
- Sussex pond pudding
- Sweet potato pudding
- Tapioca pudding
- Tembleque
- Treacle sponge pudding
- Vanilla pudding, flavored blancmange
Creamy puddings
The second and newer type of pudding consists of
Creamy puddings are typically served chilled, but a few, such as
This pudding terminology is common in North America and some European countries such as the Netherlands, whilst in Britain, egg-thickened puddings are considered custards and starch-thickened puddings called blancmange.
Table cream is a dessert, similar to blancmange. The dessert was popularized by English manufacturer Symington's Ltd in the early 20th century. It is still produced under the Symington's brand name, but no longer made by the original company.[13]
Savory
Dessert
- Abbeville Gypsy
- Angel Delight
- Banana pudding
- Bavarian cream
- Blancmange
- Budino
- Chinese flan
- Crema catalana
- Crème anglaise
- Crème brûlée
- Crème caramel
- Custard
- Flan
- Fruit fool
- Haupia
- Junket (dessert)
- Jell-O
- Mahallebi
- Mango pudding
- Mousse
- Ogi (cereal food)
- Panna cotta
- Pistachio pudding
- Pot de crème
- Quesillo#Venezuela
- Rice pudding, including kheer
- Semolina pudding
- Syllabub
- Tocino de cielo
- Trifle
- Vla
- Zabaglione(sabayon)
Cultural references
- The proverb, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating", dates back to at least the 14th century. The phrase is widely attributed to the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in his novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote. The phrase is often incorrectly stated as "the proof is in the pudding."[14]
- Pudd'nhead Wilson, (1894) written by Mark Twain, reflects the term's use as a metaphor for someone with the mind of a fool.[15]
- The Magic Pudding is a classic Australian children's novel first published in 1918, written and illustrated by author Norman Lindsay. It tells of a bad-tempered, anthropomorphic pudding named Albert who, no matter how often he is eaten, always reforms in order to be eaten again. He is owned by three companions who must defend him against Pudding Thieves who want Albert for themselves.[16]
- Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall, part 2 (1979) ends with the voice of a Scottish-accented schoolmaster, actor Alex McAvoy (1928–2005) shouting, "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!" over and over again.[17][18]
- A website dedicated to the dessert, online since the mid-1990s and consisting only of a low-quality image of it, became famous in
See also
- List of baked goods
- List of desserts
- List of savoury puddings
- List of sweet puddings
- Mousse
- The Pudding Club
References
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- ^ "The Grammarphobia Blog: Pudding and other ing-lish words". www.grammarphobia.com. 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
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- ISBN 9789047423058. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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- ^ "Travel back in time with Mary Honner's Cambridge pudding". Irish Examiner. 2017-12-21. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ "Pudding vs. Dessert: The Same But Different". The Spruce Eats. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". symingtons.com.
- ^ "Origin Phrase "Proof is in the Pudding"". phrases.org.uk.
- ^ Twain, Mark (1894). Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale. Chatto & Windus.
- ^ "Cover design for The Magic Pudding (DL PXX 49 f.1)". Collection - State Library of NSW. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!, retrieved 2022-07-27
- ^ "Alex McAvoy". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
- ^ "Famoso site pudim.com.br é invadido e mostra imagem e música do Estado Islâmico" [Islamic State hacks the famous website pudim.com.br]. Extra (Globo) (in Portuguese). 9 April 2015.
- ^ "Site Pudim.com.br é hackeado pelo Estado Islâmico" [The Pudim.com.br website is hacked by the Islamic State] (in Portuguese). R7 (Record). 9 April 2015.
Na ativa desde 2000, site é um dos mais famosos da internet brasileira [Active since 2000, the website is one of the most famous in the internet in Brazil]"
Sources
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Media related to Puddings at Wikimedia Commons