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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Related topics: Food, dish
puddingpud‧ding /ˈpʊdɪŋ/ ●●● S3 noun [countable, uncountable] 1 DFF especially British English a hot sweet dish, made from cake, rice, bread etc with fruit, milk, or other sweet things added2 DFF especially American English a thick sweet creamy dish, usually made with milk, eggs, sugar, and flour, and served cold chocolate pudding3 British EnglishDFFDFF a sweet dish served at the end of a mealfor pudding There’s ice cream for pudding. → dessert4 British EnglishDFF a hot dish made of a mixture of flour, fat etc, with meat or vegetables inside steak and kidney pudding → black pudding, Christmas pudding, milk pudding, plum pudding, Yorkshire pudding, → the proof of the pudding is in the eating at proof1(4)
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pudding• Lots of cherries and other fruit and good boozy flavour - a cross between Christmas cake and pudding.• bread pudding• Ground cloves, if available can produce a delicious flavour in Christmas puddings.• There was quite a good helping of pudding but only a tiny piece of meat.• Over the generations, it has been transformed into a kind of set pudding with a rather tart flavour and honeycomb-like texture.• The purple-skinned eggplant is baked to almost a soft pudding.• Jean-Claude had never tasted steamed puddings before and he liked them.• Substantial puddings like these were once a vital fuel and restorative for those who laboured in the fields.• And the proof of the pudding is 40% revenue growth worldwide year-on-year.steak and kidney pudding• It seems he's able to lay on steak and kidney pudding.• Brendan's steak and kidney pudding is definitive.• I wondered how they would take to steak and kidney pudding, oxtail soup, and plum duff.
Origin pudding (1200-1300) Old French boudin, from Latin botellus “sausage”
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