Editing Pudding (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''pudding'' is believed to come from the French {{wikt-lang|fr|boudin}}, which may derive from the Latin botellus, meaning "small sausage", referring to encased meats used in medieval European puddings.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Wilson |first=C. Anne |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/859209 |title=Food & drink in Britain : from the Stone Age to recent times |date=1973 |publisher=Constable |isbn=0-09-456040-4 |location=London |oclc=859209}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Ysewijn |first=Regula |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/941070366 |title=Pride and pudding : the history of British puddings savoury and sweet |year=2016 |others=Bruno Vergauwen |isbn=978-1-74336-738-4 |publisher=[[Murdoch Books]] |location=Sydney |oclc=941070366 }}</ref> Another proposed etymology is from the West German 'pud' meaning 'to swell'.<ref name=":1" />

According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' the word ''pudding'' dates to the 13th century. It refers to the entrails or stomach of a sheep, pig or other animal stuffed with meat, offal, suet, oatmeal and seasonings.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Quinzio |first=Jeri |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/828424823 |title=Pudding : a global history |date=2012 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1-78023-065-8 |location=London |oclc=828424823}}</ref> By the 1500s the word was used to refer to the guts or entrails or the contents of other people's stomachs especially when pierced with a sword, as in battle.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-08-26 |title=The Grammarphobia Blog: Pudding and other ing-lish words |url=https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2016/08/pudding-2.html |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=www.grammarphobia.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' describes puddings also as 'a boiled, steamed or baked dish made with various sweet (or sometimes) savoury ingredients added to the mixture, typically including milk, eggs, and flour (or other starchy ingredients such as suet, rice, semolina, etc.), enclosed within a crust made from such a mixture'.<ref name=":0" />