BTW ~~ re 'pudding time' & 'pudding' as a first course: perhaps worth noting that 'a pudding'

~as well as meaning a sweet course following the main course [now largely superseded by the US usage of dessert, which in UK used to mean the fresh fruit & nut course], or a particular kind of dish often constituting this~

can also mean 'a sausage'; a usage which survives in 'black pudding', and in the old saying 'Everything has an end, and a pudding has two'.

~M~