cabinet pudding

English

Noun

cabinet pudding (countable and uncountable, plural cabinet puddings)

1. 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.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 272:

     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[.]

Synonyms

• chancellor's pudding