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In the U.K. plum pudding is also called Christmas pudding since it is served with Christmas dinner. Believe it or not, it contains NO PLUMS! Plums used to be the term used for raisins. The pudding has a lot of dried fruit in it held together by egg and suet and sometimes moistened by molasses and flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and other spices. The pudding is aged for a month or longer -- that's because they drench it in alcohol. My grandma used to say it was too drunk to spoil. She would wrap it well, put it in the pantry and leave it there for an entire year, or until she got the hankering for some "pud".

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