Meanings
plural cabinet puddings
- countableuncountableA 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 272Synonyms: chancellor's pudding
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA 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.
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cabinet pudding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cabinet%20pudding
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