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

The cabinet pudding as I shall make it to-day will be rather elaborate.

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

In that large class of puddings known as custard pudding, cabinet pudding, there is no difference whatever in vegetarian cookery.

From Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet by Payne, A. G.