batter pudding

noun

A type of pudding made from a pourable batter of flour, eggs, and milk or cream, traditionally baked or boiled until set.

Meanings

nounbatter pudding (plural batter puddings)

plural batter puddings

  1. A type of pudding made from a pourable batter of flour, eggs, and milk or cream, traditionally baked or boiled until set.

    It is generally about the size of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy, something in consistence between yeast-dumplings and batter-pudding.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 476
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