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christmas pudding :: Article Creator Deconstructing Christmas Pudding: Secrets Of A Seasonal Staple This article was adapted from National Geographic Traveller (UK). If you needed an emblem for a typically British Christmas, the plum pudding would probably be it. Love it or hate it, this currant-freckled sphere — better known as Christmas pudding, and often adorned with holly — is an instantly recognisable festive icon. The British have a sentimental attachment to this dessert. A dark, sticky mass of dried fruit, suet, breadcrumbs and spices, it's a proper rib sticker; Christmas just wouldn't seem right without its solid, reassuring presence on the table. Perhaps one of the reasons the dish remains so popular — despite many professing not to like it — is the fact we have such a longstanding relationship with it. Plum pudding can trace its origins back to at least the Middle Ages, when it had a less sturdy consistency. There's a rec...