Welf pudding gets its name from the colours of the House of Welf (also known as the House of Guelph), a German aristocratic family that ruled the Principality of Lüneburg in medieval times.
House of Welf | The Magic Pudding | Welf VI | Welf I, Duke of Bavaria | Tom Pudding | Christmas pudding | Yorkshire pudding | Welf VI, portrait in the ''Weingartener Stifterbüchlein'', ca. 1500 (Württembergische Landesbibliothek | Welf VII | Welf II, Duke of Bavaria | Pudding Norton | Pudding Lane | Poor Knight's Pudding | 'Making the Empire Christmas pudding', artwork by F C Harrison produced for the Empire Marketing Board | house of Welf | Hasty Pudding Club | Elder House of Welf |