Christmas baking

The simple oats porridge evolved, as people began to improvise by adding spices, honey and dried fruit, especially plums or prunes and it transformed into the more popular Christmas pudding. Further, with time and the introduction of new ingredients, oats gave way to flour to which now eggs and butter was added along with an assortment of exotic dried fruit and the batter was placed in a muslin cloth and boiled. Those who could afford ovens, began to bake this batter.