When was pudding invented?

Answer 1

The foods we know today as 'pudding' have been served in both sweet and savory form since ancient times.

In one UK sense of the word, 'pudding' describes a savory dish; examples of this usage are Yorkshire pudding, and steak and kidney pudding, (which is similar to, but not the same as, steak and kidney pie).

Pudding also means, in its more commonly-known sense, a sweet pudding served as a dessert. One example is rice pudding, another is suet pudding, also known as spotted dick a mixture of suet, dried fruit, spices and syrup, steamed and served with a custard or sweet white sauce.

Another UK use of the word 'pudding' is to describe any dessert at all, in the sense of a sweet course following the main course of a meal: 'The kids will be happy, there's new strawberries and cream for pudding'.

In English, the noun 'pudding' can be traced back to the 1300s; the etymology is unclear but the word is believed to originate from quite different terms, either Germanic or Old French, each referring to sausage or similar foods. 'Sausage' here is in the sense of a stomach or other large part of an animal's entrails, stuffed with a finely-chopped or minced mixure of meat, offal, suet, spices, and other aromatics, and boiled: like sausages in general, it was and remains a way of using all the bits of the animal, the resulting dish able to be preserved, originally for winter consumption.

This usage of 'pudding' as a sausage-like food remains in still-popular foods such as 'black pudding' and 'white pudding'.

From the 'sausage' usage, the word came to describe other kinds of pudding, both sweet and savory, which were tied in cloth and boiled or steamed. The traditional Christmas pudding, quite different from Christmas cake, is still prepared in this way worldwide. The modern - and today the more popular - usage in the sense of sweet puddings and desserts in general dates from the latter part of the 1600s.

Answer 2

The foods we know today as 'pudding' have been served in both sweet and savory form since ancient times.

In one UK sense of the word, 'pudding' describes a savory dish; examples of this usage are Yorkshire pudding, and steak and kidney pudding, (which is similar to, but not the same as, steak and kidney pie).

Pudding also means, in its more commonly-known sense, a sweet pudding served as a dessert. One example is the suet pudding, also known as spotted dick a mixture of suet, dried fruit, spices and syrup, steamed and served with a custard or sweet white sauce.

Another UK use of the word 'pudding' is to describe any dessert at all, in the sense of a sweet course following the main course of a meal: 'The kids will be happy, there's new strawberries and cream for pudding'.

In English, the noun 'pudding' can be traced back to the 1300s; the etymology is unclear but the word is believed to originate from quite different terms, either Germanic or Old French, each referring to sausage or similar foods. 'Sausage' here is in the sense of a stomach or other large part of an animal's entrails, stuffed with a finely-chopped or minced mixure of meat, offal, suet, spices, and other aromatics, and boiled: like sausages in general, it was and remains a way of using all the bits of the animal, the resulting dish able to be preserved, originally for winter consumption.

This usage of 'pudding' as a sausage-like food remains in still-popular foods such as 'black pudding' and 'white pudding'.

From the 'sausage' usage, the word came to describe other kinds of pudding, both sweet and savory, which were tied in cloth and boiled or steamed. The traditional Christmas pudding, quite different from Christmas cake, is still prepared in this way worldwide. The modern - and today the more popular - usage in the sense of sweet puddings and desserts in general dates from the latter part of the 1600s.

Answer 3

It depends on what you consider to be pudding, there were many known "pudding like substances in ancient times, but the word "pudding" was coined in 1275 and comes from either the Middle English word "Poding", a kind of sausage stew or the low German word "Puddewurst" meaning black pudding

Answer 4

Hmm.. I can't be sure but I think it may have to do with Joseph John "J. J." Thomson's discovery of the electron in his "Plum Pudding" model.

But more than likely it was probably just a slogan for an old pudding commercial or something.

Sorry for the poor answer, but often the origins of sayings are lost because they spread so quickly within a community making it a commodity and the creators don't want to be haughty in claiming they coined the term.

Answer 5

The first puddings were more of a main dish than a dessert. In the 19th century the English started to make dessert puddings like plum and apple pudding.

Answer 6

originally chocholate pudding was first discovered by Gunther Lund in 1892.he discovered it while he was on the toilet he smelt the chocolate looked down in the toilet and history made.

Answer 7

The word pudding is believed to come from the French boudin, originally from the Latin botellus, meaning "small sausage".

Answer 8

It is a origin from bannanas