cabinet pudding

American  

noun

1. a bread or cake pudding baked in a mold placed in a pan of hot water, usually filled with candied fruit, raisins, and currants, and often served hot with a fruit sauce.

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cabinet pudding British  

noun

1. a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit

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Etymology

Origin of cabinet pudding

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

If anything, he is especially indignant in this book, having been forced from his home into new digs that he intensely dislikes and fed such British delicacies as cabinet pudding.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2013

Cabinet Pudding.—A cabinet pudding is made in any kind of a mould and of any size, with sponge-cake or lady's fingers.

From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Blot, Pierre

What is called cabinet pudding in the restaurants and hotels in this country is usually a nice bread pudding made with fruit, and it is not decorated in this way.

From A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery by Corson, Juliet

This sauce is nice for cold or hot cornstarch pudding, bread pudding, cold cabinet pudding, snow pudding, etc.

From Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes by Hill, Janet McKenzie

"You'll never have time to cram down cabinet pudding and tart to-day, I'll be bound;" and the boy grinned teasingly on the bright face before him.

From Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life by Beaumont, Grace