People sing about it in 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas.' Charles Dickens wrote about it in 'A Christmas Carol.' But what ...

“The term ‘plum pudding’ originally referred to a type of English boiled or steamed pudding that contained raisins, nuts, and spices,” Heron says. Additional ingredients could include ...

This is a gorgeous, sweet and spicy plum cake– great as a pudding or with afternoon tea. If you’ve never tried making a cake, this would be a great place to start. Set the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.

Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is, it was roughly the same consistency throughout, with negatively-charged electrons scattered about in it like raisins in a pudding.