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

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cabinet pudding

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

We shall cook salt codfish stewed in cream, venison with currant jelly, stewed carrots, and cabinet pudding.

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

That is what is called cabinet pudding in this country in the restaurants and hotels.

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

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