cottage pudding

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noun

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

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Origin of cottage pudding

First recorded in 1905–10

It was popularized as a holiday dessert in 16th-century England and also is known as Christmas pudding or plum pudding.
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Finally, as the sun was about to set, she came upon a little cottage that belonged to seven dwarfs.
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When Little Snow White awoke, they asked her who she was and how she had managed to come to their cottage.
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Nevertheless, a cottage industry has grown up around the case.
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Well, the pudding moment arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from sight the plate before us.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
Madame Ratignolle, when they had regained her cottage, went in to take the hour's rest which she considered helpful.
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I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.'
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
She rose with a smile as Lady Victoria emerged from the cottage at the upper end of the village.
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They had almost reached the sawyer's cottage, when a black animal ran out towards them.
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1|Various