cottage pudding

American  

noun

1. a pudding made by covering plain cake with a sweet sauce, often of fruit.

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Etymology

Origin of cottage pudding

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Beat hard and thoroughly mix and then bake one-half of this mixture in well-greased custard cups for cottage pudding.

From Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Wilson, Mary A.

To make a cocoa cottage pudding add to the above rule six level tablespoonfuls of cocoa.

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

Mrs. MacCall was famous for her "whangdoodle pudding and lallygag sauce"—a title she had given once to cottage pudding and its accompanying dressing to satisfy little folks' teasing questions as to "what is that?"

From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks

And then trade and commerce had their innings, and the bread I had cast upon the waters began to come back in the form of cottage pudding with wine sauce.

From The Gentle Grafter by Greening, H. C.

With ice cream and cottage pudding, the admirable menu proceeded.

From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher