nesselrode pudding

Noun capitalized: Nesselrode pudding

Nesselrode pudding (countable and uncountable, plural Nesselrode puddings)

1. A chestnut-based frozen dessert, generally agreed to contain pureed chestnuts, mixed with cream or egg custard, flavoured with dried fruit, including currants, raisins and dried cherries, candied peel and brandy or other spirits.
   • She began with caviar, sprinted through a cup of chicken gumbo, dallied for a brief while with a delectable brook trout; consorted with a tenderloin and certain congenial vegetables, rallied around a punch frappée, hot-footed with a canvasback duck, loped along arm in arm with an alligator pear...1909 May 16, Thomas L[ansing] Masson, “THE WHITE WOMAN'S BURDEN; Being Some Passing Reflections On Clothes to Be Seen in New York”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...
   • It was thanks to her [Fannie Farmer] that since the cradle dined on Nesselrode pudding, charlotte Russe, shrimp Newburg, curried chicken and poached vegetables with hollandaise sauce.1979 September 12, Craig Claiborne, “New Life, New Spice For Classic Cookbook”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Feb...