Editing Pudding (section)

==Savoury and sweet==
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=== Savoury puddings ===
[[File:Haggis with a CC license.jpg|thumb|[[Haggis]], a savoury pudding]]

The modern usage of the word ''pudding'' to mean a dessert has evolved from the almost exclusive use of the term to describe a savoury dish, specifically those created using a process similar to [[sausage]]s, where meat and other ingredients in a mostly liquid form are encased and then steamed or boiled to set the contents. The most famous examples still surviving are [[black pudding]] and [[haggis]]. Other savoury dishes include [[suet pudding]] and [[steak and kidney pudding]]. Boiled or steamed pudding was a common main course aboard ships in the [[Royal Navy]] during the 18th and 19th centuries; pudding was used as the primary dish in which daily rations of [[flour]] and [[suet]] were employed.

=== Dessert puddings ===
[[File:Pudding With Raspberries and Whipped Cream.jpg|thumb|Pudding of the [[dessert]] type may be served with toppings such as fresh fruit and [[whipped cream]].]] [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] dessert puddings are rich, fairly homogeneous [[starch]]- or [[dairy]]-based desserts such as [[rice pudding]] or steamed cake mixtures such as [[treacle sponge pudding]] (with or without the addition of ingredients such as dried fruits as in a [[Christmas pudding]]).<ref name="OED"/>

In the United States and some parts of Canada, ''pudding'' characteristically denotes a sweet milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based [[custard]]s, [[Bird's Custard|instant custards]] or a [[mousse]], often commercially set using [[cornstarch]], [[tapioca]], [[gelatin]], or similar coagulating agent such as the [[Jell-O]] brand line of products. In Commonwealth countries (other than some Canadian regions), these foods are known as [[custard]]s (or curds) if they are egg-thickened, [[blancmange]] if starch-thickened, and jelly if [[gelatin]]-based. Pudding may also refer to other dishes such as [[bread pudding]] and [[rice pudding]] in North America, although typically these names derive from their origin as British dishes.