"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
...
> RobtE insisted:
>
> >>> summer pudding goes back only to the 1930s.
> >>
> >> WHAT?? You have to be kidding. You are, right?
> >
> > Nope.
>
> from http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpuddings.html#summer:
>
> "Summer pudding. A favourite English dessert which combines a mixture of
> summer fruits with bread. Redcurrants...and raspberries are the best
fruits
> to use, but some varieties of gooseberry are suitable, and a small
quantity
> of blackcurrants and very few strawberries may be included. In autumn,
> blackberries can be substituted. In other countries, corresponding kinds
of
> berry will do very well...In the 19th century this pudding seems to have
> been known as 'hydropathic pudding' because it was served at health
resorts
> where pastry was forbidden. This name must have begun to seem unattractive
> or inappropriate early in the 20th century, when the new name summer
> pudding, which is now universally used, began to appear in print. Until
> recently it was thought that the earliest recorded use was by Florence
Perry
> (1917) who, on the title page of her attractive book, styled herself The
> Pudding Lady'...However, it has now been established that a missionary in
> India, Miss E.S. Poynter (1904), had used the term much earlier, in her
> book; and that soon afterwards Miss L. Sykes (c. 1912) used it as the
title
> of a recipe which was even closer than Miss Poynter's to those now in
use."
> ---Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson [Oxford University
Press:Oxford]
> 1999 (p. 770)
>
>
> You just make stuff up as you go along, don't you?
>
> Bob
>
>

Yes, he does.