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Fruit hat is the generic name for a British steamed pudding originally made with a pastry of suet and flour and filled with fruit. Later the term came to refer to a category of steamed puddings made with butter flour and eggs produce a sponge-like pud topped with sauce that can be put into the base of the bowl and cooked with the pudding… so the sauce melds with the sponge to produce a deliciously gunky top: the ‘fruit hat’.