English Puddings — a terminology system

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⚠ "PUDDING" IS FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS IN ENGLISH AND THAT IS THE ENTRY. (1) The DESSERT COURSE generally — "what’s for pudding?". (2) A STEAMED or BOILED sweet pudding in a basin, in a cloth or up a chimney: Christmas pudding, spotted dick, treacle sponge, jam roly-poly, sticky toffee. (3) A SAVOURY suet pudding: steak and kidney pudding — ⚠ which is boiled in suet crust and is NOT the same dish as steak and kidney PIE. (4) A batter or blood pudding: Yorkshire pudding, black pudding, white pudding. The boiled cloth pudding is an English technical contribution of the 17th century and the word’s spread outward from it.