Christmas pudding; plum pudding
A traditional British steamed dessert served at Christmas, often containing dried fruit and suet. In Japanese, it is understood as a Western-style Christmas cake or pudding.
In England, there is a custom of eating Christmas pudding at Christmas.
Variant spelling with a middle dot, reflecting the original English word boundary.
Borrowed from English 'plum pudding', an older name for Christmas pudding. The word entered Japanese as a culinary term for the British dessert.