Welcome back to my Christmas Pudding Chronicles. This is a holiday series where I, an outsider to the British tradition of figgy pudding, muddle my way through making one. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy my ...

Christmas has a habit of sneaking up on me. Despite preparing for this moment for five weeks, I still feel like it arrived fast. It’s the final chapter in my six-part series—Allie’s Christmas Pudding ...

Christmas pudding is a traditional Christmas dessert made with a combination of dried fruits, nuts, eggs or molasses, spices, flour and butter. Steaming is generally the cooking method used to prepare ...

In skittish mood during his tour of the Hebrides, Samuel Johnson devised a satirical meditation on a pudding in the style of a popular volume of religious homilies: “Let us seriously reflect what a ...