puddings

Soft custard desserts

Puddings is the plural of pudding, a term covering different desserts depending on where you are.

In American English, pudding usually means a creamy, spoonable dessert made from milk and sugar: chocolate pudding, butterscotch pudding.

In British English, pudding is a broader category that includes steamed or boiled dishes like Christmas pudding, or simply means dessert generally: What's for pudding?

Black pudding and blood pudding are savory sausages made with blood—not desserts at all.

british

sticky toffee

Chewy caramelized sugar sweet

Yorkshire · black · white · bread · rice · suet · sponge · figgy · summer · cabinet

custard

flan

Caramel-glazed baked custard

blancmange · mousse · leche flan · pastry cream · egg custard · baked custard

american

butterscotch

Brown sugar candy

tapioca · instant · Jell-O · snack pack · parfait · layered · cups · creamy · stovetop · homemade

texture

creamy

Smooth and rich

  • silkySmooth and lustrous
  • smoothWithout roughness or difficulty
  • thickHaving great depth

wobbly · jiggly · set · firm · soft · velvety · rich · glossy · custardy · gelatinous

savory

blood

Body's oxygen carrier

sausage · offal · oatmeal · liver · suet · casing · boiled · traditional · British · Scottish

Categories
Opposites
dessert category

puddingscakes

Baked layered sweets

pies · cookies · pastries · tarts · biscuits

texture/consistency

puddingscrackers

Crispy flat biscuits

crisps · croutons · nuts · brittle · chips

MEAL COURSE (British usage)

puddingsstarters

Things that initiate

appetizers · savories · hors d'oeuvres · mains · savouries

Phrases
Family

pudding, bread pudding, rice pudding, black pudding, figgy pudding, plum pudding, Yorkshire pudding, Christmas pudding, suet pudding

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G