Definition of Christmas pudding

1. Noun. A rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake.

Exact synonyms: Plum Pudding
Generic synonyms: Pudding

Definition of Christmas pudding

1. Noun. A rich dessert traditional eaten at Christmas, made from dried fruit and nuts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Christmas Pudding

Christmas fern
Christmas ferns
Christmas flower
Christmas gift
Christmas green
Christmas ham
Christmas hams
Christmas holly
Christmas is coming
Christmas lights
Christmas list
Christmas lists
Christmas number one
Christmas present
Christmas presents
Christmas pudding
Christmas puddings
Christmas rose
Christmas seal
Christmas seals
Christmas season
Christmas seasons
Christmas star
Christmas stocking
Christmas stockings
Christmas time
Christmas times
Christmas tree
Christmas tree bill
Christmas tree bills

Literary usage of Christmas pudding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1858)
"... christmas pudding. A pound and a quarter of flour, fourteen ounces of suet, a pound and a quarter of stoned raisins, four ounces of currants, ..."

2. Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book: And Young Housekeeper's Assistant by Elizabeth H. Putnam (1869)
"... half a pound of suet chopped, and a pound and a half of raisins. Boil it four hours. A VERY NICE christmas pudding. ..."

3. Favorite Dishes: A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book. Over Three by Carrie V. Shuman (1893)
"The christmas pudding which I add was served np this Christmas on my table and pronounced delicious. Dyspeptics need not fear this "Plum Pudding" and it is ..."

4. The Godey's Lady's Book Receipts and Household Hints by Sarah Annie Frost (1870)
"... NEW christmas pudding.—This receipt, if closely followed, would, at this festive season of the year, save tons of fruit and other expensive ingredients, ..."

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