suet pudding

American  

noun

1. a pudding made of chopped beef suet and flour, boiled or steamed in a cloth, often with other ingredients, as raisins, spices, etc.

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suet pudding British  

noun

1. any of a variety of sweet or savoury puddings made with suet and steamed or boiled

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Etymology

Origin of suet pudding

First recorded in 1750–60

Example Sentences

Other savory puddings include steak and kidney pudding and suet pudding.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

It didn't wobble like its forebears, wasn't the Yorkshire pudding or suet pudding that grew from a sausagey tradition in the sixteenth-century.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2018

The problem is that since November Chelsea have been a side as fresh and watchable as a three-weeks-past-its-sell-by-date suet pudding attempting the Charleston, but with nothing like the potential for unpredictability.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2011

Unlike the wives of many geniuses, Jane was neither a gay deceiver nor a suet pudding; she was a formidable intellectual, born to shine in literary and philosophical discussion.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘Madge—in case you’ve been wondering—is going to marry me ... aren’t you, you toothsome, plump, suet pudding?’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes