Have you ever wondered where the tradition of plum cake came from?
Yeah, this is the nicest time of year: vacations, Jingle Bells, Christmas, and truckloads of goodies, cake, cookies, and, of course, gift time!
Your homes are always scented with positive energy during this season because you all explore and savor a variety of traditional Christmas cakes—that's, of course, a plum cake!
The house is overflowing with gifts, new shoes and outfits, as well as a bunch of aspirations for the New Year!!
A bread-like variant of the
Christmas cake was created as early as the Roman era when they combined barley,
honey, wine, and dry fruits and nuts to create an energetic bar-like bread to
power their warriors. According to legend, the Egyptians put fruitcakes in the
graves of their deceased to provide food for their afterlife trip.
The custom of Christmas puddings traces its origins to medieval England when citizens fasted from meat, dairy, and sweets during Advent, or the weeks leading up to Christmas. On Christmas Eve, a thick porridge called plum pottage or porridge was made with oats, meat, spices, and dried fruits. A pudding variant of this came later during the Tudor era and was called plum pudding. It was made using suet, breadcrumbs, flour, dried fruits, honey, milk, and eggs.
The first plum cake is thought to have been prepared in
1883, when an English planter returned from England with a rich plum cake and
ordered a local baker, Mambally Bapu, to make something related. Bapu used a
native toddy prepared from cashew apples and kadalipazham instead of yeast. The
colonial commanders had a difficult time reproducing these cakes since
obtaining quality flour and yeast (baking powder had not yet been produced) was
difficult. Moreover, because we didn't have a baking tradition, bakers had to
create their ovens by laying baking tins over hot sand and setting flaming
charcoal over the baking containers.
We're all aware that a Christmas cake contains no plums or prunes (dried plums). Despite this, they're named plum cakes! It's possible because dried fruits were once known as plums.
At Finest Shop, we have been baking plum cakes for a long time and are one of the best makers to start selling them in every city. To guarantee you don't miss out on this popular Secret Santa Gift, we've determined to provide fruits plum cake online delivery. Visit us for more variety!
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