Cambridgeshire
St. Stephen’s Day was formerly observed at Cambridge. Slicer, a character in the old play of the Ordinary says,
“Let the Corporal
Come sweating under a breast of mutton, stuffed
With pudding.”
This, says the annotator, was called St. Stephen’s pudding; it used formerly to be provided at St. John’s College, Cambridge, uniformly on St. Stephen’s Day.—Dodsley’s Old Plays, 1721, vol. x. p. 229; Med. Ævi Kalend. vol. i. p. 119.