Plum cake and plum pudding?

Do plum cakes and plum pudding (Christmas pudding) usually contain PLUMS, the kind of blue fruit which is called "prune" when dried? Or they contain only RAISINS, the special dried grapes which accidentally are also called "plums"??? Thaks and wishes.

Plum cake and plum pudding?
Darlin' it could be that those who have looked at the q couldn't provide a positive enough answer to really help you out...and it might be that those who frequent the Cooking %26amp; Recipes section are more inclined to just pass the q by rather than put things like Don't know or something.



Anyway...traditionally plum pudding did include actual plums and some still make it that way...however, today it can be found with the larger raisin variety simply because it is a substitute and some people cannot stand the plum (prune) connection :)



I for one would never consume these two items...prunes or any derivitive thereof doesn't appeal to me therefore if I did make these I'd use the larger raisins.



Hope others will assist you further



Good luck
Reply:You're welcome! Thanks for the very generous rating, appreciate. Best wishes to you and yours...as well Report It
Reply:I once went down the woods with Tim England and we found a copse that was full of the most wondeful plum trees simply bursting with fruit. We ate plum after plum after plum in the warm summer breeze (typical of those halcyon Summer days back when I was a child) and carried dozens home to our mothers in our satchels. I believe we even ate three or four more on the way back! I remember mother asking me if I would like Plum Pudding for afters that night and I said yes. Unfortunately I don't know whether the plums were used in said pudding or not as I had the most godawful shquits as Jesus had ever invented and spent over 18 hours clutching my ankles and spraying all over the back wall of the bowl, under the seat and a good way up the cistern.
Reply:i trained to be a chef, we used to call it plum duff, but i have no idea where the name came from there are no plums in any recipe i've ever made.
Reply:they originally contained plums, now raisins, sultanas, nuts, other dried fruit, but have retained their name.

I have never heard it called a plum cake - usually a fruit cake and plum pudding
Reply:The original plum pudding also contained meat and was savory, and it never contained plums. Originally it contained prunes, then raisins. Both prunes and raisins were commonly called “plums”, as used by Samuel Johnson in his famous dictionary.
Reply:Only a "Fruit Cake" would put his "Plums" in a pudding !