“Bring us some Figgy Pudding!”
Inspired by the traditional Christmas carol, Andy Bates joins Sarah and Erin in the Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge for a festive, fig-filled crossover episode all about the legendary dish everyone’s heard of (but few have ever actually tasted): Figgy Pudding, also known as Christmas Pudding.
What is it made from? Is it secretly its own food group? Will Erin try it again?
From its origins as a savory dish, through the faux liturgical feast day of “Stir Up Sunday,” and ending with Andy sharing his first go at making this dish at home, this episode invites you to celebrate the holiday season with the hosts of The Coffee Hour and The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge Podcast.
In this episode:
Find the recipe Andy adapted: food.com/recipe/figgy-pudding-337148
(Replaced butter with plant butter, milk with oat milk, and brown sugar with madhava raw sugar)
A Lutheran Witness article mentioning Stir Up Sunday: witness.lcms.org/2025/all-saints-day-the-last-sunday-of-the-church-year-stir-up-sunday-pudding
The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge covers Fruitcake in this Recipe Card episode: kfuo.org/2021/11/19/lutheran-ladies-lounge-episode-112-erins-recipe-card-the-fruitcake-even-skeptics-will-love
As you grab your morning coffee (and pastry, let’s be honest), join hosts Andy Bates and Sarah Gulseth as they bring you stories of the intersection of Lutheran life and a secular world. Catch real-life stories of mercy work of the LCMS and partners, updates from missionaries across the ocean, and practical talk about how to live boldly Lutheran. Have a topic you’d like to hear about on The Coffee Hour? Contact us at: listener@kfuo.org.
Today’s episode of The Coffee Hour is underwritten in part by Concordia University, St. Paul. You can learn more about Concordia University, St. Paul at csp.edu.
