suet pudding

American  

noun

1. a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.

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suet pudding British  

noun

1. any of a variety of sweet or savoury puddings made with suet and steamed or boiled

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Etymology

Origin of suet pudding

First recorded in 1750–60

Example Sentences

Other savory puddings include steak and kidney pudding and suet pudding.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

It didn't wobble like its forebears, wasn't the Yorkshire pudding or suet pudding that grew from a sausagey tradition in the sixteenth-century.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2018

The problem is that since November Chelsea have been a side as fresh and watchable as a three-weeks-past-its-sell-by-date suet pudding attempting the Charleston, but with nothing like the potential for unpredictability.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2011

As Georgy she is dumpy, vaguely prognathous, warm and plain as a suet pudding.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Madge—in case you’ve been wondering—is going to marry me ... aren’t you, you toothsome, plump, suet pudding?’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes