PITTSBURGH (AP) — One of the traditional highlights of an English Christmas is the plum pudding served at the end of the meal – dense, rich, and dripping with rum butter or other boozey glaze. It used ...

Journalist Kate Colquhoun traces the origins of traditional Christmas foods, such as English pudding, the boiled dessert made with suet or lard, in Taste : The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking.

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 ...