cabinet pudding noun1 •A 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 formscabinet puddings