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Just what is "figgy pudding" and why does it have this name?

Question #150656. Asked by psnz.
Last updated Feb 16 2024.
Originally posted Feb 16 2024 9:24 PM.

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A dessert which contains figs! This dessert was common in the Middle Ages. They used figs to add sweetness to a dish. They did not have sugar cane for the sweet sugar we are used to in modern times. Nowadays figgy pudding is a steamed cakelike dessert.
The Middle English name had several spellings, including ffygey, fygeye, fygee, figge, and figee. The latter is a 15th-century conflation with a French dish of fish and curds called figé, meaning "curdled" in Old French. But it too came to mean a "figgy" dish, involving cooked figs, boiled in wine or otherwise.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figgy_pudding

Response last updated by BigTriviaDawg on Feb 16 2024.
Feb 16 2024, 9:30 PM
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