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cabinet pudding en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A traditional English steamed pudding made from some combination of bread or sponge cake or similar ingredients, with dried fruits such as raisins, served with custard or another sweet sauce.
    • Certainly, in the gravy soups, turbot, hare, roast saddles, cabinet puddings, boiled eggs at tea-time and bread and butter and meat paste with the morning tray, one tasted one's own decadence[.] 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 272:

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Synonyms

chancellor's pudding