pudding — Dizionario inglese

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1. Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.

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   The dishes in this chapter represent a range of multiethnic savory custards and steamed puddings, including a few surprises like a chèvre popover pudding and a bread pudding with lettuce and cheese.

   Steamed and boiled puddings have formed the basic diet of country people in northern Europe for centuries. Early puddings consisted of the scoured stomach of a sheep or pig, stuffed with its own suet and offal, which has been thickened with oatmeal, and boiled in water or baked in the ashes of a fire.

2. A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.

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   Steamed puddings, a favourite for winter, are both easy to make and delicious. Served with one of the sweet sauces (recipes 497 to 506) they make a filling and satisfying end to a meal.

3. A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.

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   custardcrème caramelcrème brûléeflanmousse

4. Dessert; the dessert course of a meal.

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   dessert

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   We have apple pie for pudding today.

   Harold Winstanley: Is there any pudding? Doris Winstanley: Oh, yes. Rhubarb cobbler left over from Sunday.

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   Jane Cavendish: Have you tried some fresh strawberry cheesecake? Tara Cavendish: Nope. I don't eat puddings.

5. A sausage made primarily from blood.

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   blood sausage

6. An overweight person.

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   fattyporker

7. A term of endearment.

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   dumpling

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   "How is my little pudding?" Jehan nuzzles up to me and rests his little head on my shoulder, still chuckling […]

8. Entrails.

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   bowelsgutsinnards

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   I pray God he may recover, though there is little hopes; as there is of Coll Halley, being shott throw the body; and of Capt. Urquhart of Burdyeyeards, being wounded in the belly, after being made prisoner, soe that his puddings hang out.

   PUDDINGS, the guts; I'll let out your puddings.

9. Any food or victuals.

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   fodderprovisions

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   Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.

10. A piece of good fortune.

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    lucky breakstroke of luck

Sostantivo

1. any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes

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   dish

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   corn pudding

2. (British) the dessert course of a meal (‘pud’ is used informally)

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   pud

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   dessertsweetafters

3. any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

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   dessertsweetafters