Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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The national Christmas dish of plum pudding is a modern evolution from plum porridge, which was probably similar to the dish still produced at Windsor Castle.
An 18th century recipe for plum porridge is available at this address:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041217220330/http://thefoody.com/hpudding/plumporridge.html
[Link changed to archive.org version by Phil, 21 Sep 2011.]