plumpudding

Would it not be a horrible thing if, after having lost one part of the Empire over a case of tea, and after nearly losing Australia two years ago over the currants and raisins for the English plumpudding, Australia and Canada came to daggers drawn over a few pounds of butter?

Canadian-Australian Contrasts 1926

I cannot understand what either plumpudding or gunpowder has to do with saving grace.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

No Frenchmen like plumpudding; All Englishmen like plumpudding.

The Game of Logic Lewis Carroll 1865

I promised myself that I would do something for them one of these days, and formed a plan in outline for bestowing a dinner of roast-beef and plumpudding, a pint of ale, and a gallon of condescension, upon everybody in the village.

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

None of your inchthick blueblooded Balaclava fried-at-belief-stakes or juicejelly legs of the Grex’s molten mutton or greasilygristly grunters’ goupons or slice upon slab of luscious goosebosom with lump after load of plumpudding stuffing all aswim in a swamp of bogoakgravy for that greekenhearted yude!

Finnegans Wake 2006

I believe I am getting discontented — I have a great desire to do something to distinguish myself — I would make a plumpudding if I had raisins, but there is not one in the house. "

Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner 1852