Christmas pudding
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Christmas pudding is a sweet boiled or steamed pudding traditionally served as part of Christmas dinner in Britain. It has its origins in medieval England, with early recipes making use of dried fruit
A Christmas pudding
A traditional bag-boiled Christmas pudding still showing the "skin"
A Christmas pudding decorated with skimmia rather than holly
Christmas puddings are often dried out on hooks for weeks prior to serving in order to enhance the flavour. This pudding has been prepared with a traditional cloth rather than a basin.
Suet
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Suet is the raw, hard fat of beef, lamb, or mutton found around the loins and kidneys.
Christmas pudding
…expensive or luxurious ingredients — notably the sweet spices that are so important in developing its distinctive rich aroma, and usually made with suet. The pudding is very dark, almost black in appearance due to the dark sugars and black treacle in most recipes, and its long cooking time. The mixture…
Calf suet
Tallow after rendering
Red-breasted nuthatch feeding on suet