Alfred Bird chocolate pudding

It’s National Chocolate Pudding Day! Did you know that dessert puddings can be traced all the way back to the 17th century? During that time, this English “pudding” was actually a very moist cake (similar to a modern-day bread pudding or plum pudding - see food facts, below). The sweet and creamy confection we know and love today emerged in the mid-19th century when an English chemist named Alfred Bird […]