A Christmas pudding in England is also called and known as Plum Pudding or even figgy pudding.
Christmas pudding or plum pudding or figgy pudding is a traditional, rich and dense dessert that is served at the end of Christmas dinner.
Christmas pudding is a steamed pudding that is filled with dried fruits like currants, candied peel and raisins that are often soaked in brandy, and flavored with spices such as pumpkin pie spice or mixed spice.
Traditionally Christmas pudding is flamed with brandy and served with brandy butter or even brandy cream sauce.
Christmas pudding is steamed instead of baked, which gives it a dense and moist texture.
And the pudding for Christmas pudding is also packed with dried fruits such as currants, raisins and candied peel and often soaked in brandy or other spirits and is flavored with spices like mixed spice that is similar to pumpkin pie spice.
Christmas pudding is also often flambeed with brandy before it's served, which creates a dramatic effect and it's also often served with a rich brandy butter or brandy cream sauce and sometimes with a spring of holly as decoration.
Christmas pudding evolved from a 14th century porridge called frumenty, which contained beef and mutton, raisins, currants, prunes and spices and over time it evolved into a pudding thickened with eggs, breadcrumbs and dried fruit and flavored with beer and spirits.