Street sign for Pudding Lane, postcode EC3, in the City of London, featuring the City of London coat of arms.

Pudding

One of the more famous food street names in London – owing to the great Fire of London starting there in 1666 – Pudding Lane in the City of London was given its name by the butchers of Eastcheap Market, who used it to transport ‘pudding’ or offal down to the river to be taken away by waste barges.

A close-up of a cut mini meat pie filled with savory ground beef and gravy.

Pudding

The modern meaning of puddings suggests they are a boiled, steamed or baked dish made with various sweet (or sometimes) savoury ingredients added to the mixture, typically including milk, eggs, and flour (or other starchy ingredients such as suet, rice, semolina, etc.), enclosed within a crust. Savoury puddings include Yorkshire pudding, black pudding, suet pudding and steak and kidney pudding. Sweet puddings include bread pudding, sticky toffee pudding and rice pudding.

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