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

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

Then came a pie with crust an inch thick, which nobody could eat, and a cabinet pudding, so called, full of lumps of suet.

From Rachel Ray by Trollope, Anthony

After that he had a turn at roast pork and apple sauce, and after that a cabinet pudding and some Gorgonzola cheese.

From Boycotted And Other Stories by Reed, Talbot Baines

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