June 26 its Chocolate Pudding Day observed each year. Rich, flavorful, and decadent, there’s nothing in life quite as good as chocolate pudding. The history of puddings starts far back in the 17th century, when the first recipes for puddings appear. Back then puddings were made much different than the pudding is today.
Common ingredients were butter and flour, suet, cereals, and other ingredients which when they came together served to create more of a cake like result than the puddings we think of today. It’s also worth mentioning that they baked, steamed, even boiled into their final form.
Originally it was egg that provided the thickening agent that made a pudding into a type of custard, but the invention of a stable powder-form of egg-free custard mix really helped to bring the dessert pudding into the modern day. Chocolate pudding is of the type known as a creamy pudding, and is typically made of a combination of sugar, milk, and a thickening agent of one of broad range of things. Sometimes a gelatin was used, tapioca and cornstarch are popular, or even rice puddings.
Enjoy some delicious Chocolate Pudding as a dessert or as a snack.
