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† sugar-plate Obs.
[orig. sucre in plate, i.e. sugar in the form of a flat cake: see plate n. 10.]
A dainty kind of sweetmeat. Also applied to a sweet lozenge for medicinal use.
c1333Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 521 In 3 li. zukur in plate et 2 li. drages..4s. 5d. 1390Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 19 Pro iiij lb. sucri plat, rouge et blank. 1402–3Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 208 Sugur en plate. c1440Promp. Parv. 484/1 Sukyr plate, sucura crustalis. 1511–12Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 291 Pro quinque lib. confeccionum et le suggurplatt ad 7d. a1536Tindale Expos. Matt. vi. (c 1550) 73 To banket wyth dew (as they saye) of all maner of frutes & confections,..sugreplate wyth malmesaye and romneye burnte with Sugre. 1589Puttenham Engl. Poesie i. xxx. (Arb.) 72 Their banketting dishes of suger plate, or of march paines, and such other dainty meates. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. (1660) 92 To make a kind of Suger plate, take Gum Dragon, and lay it in Rose water two dayes: then take the powder of fair Heppes & Suger, and the juyce of an Orenge. 1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 153 Physicians [make use] of sugar-plates, which they minister to their patients, to take away the taste of a more bitter potion. 1688Holme Armoury iii. iii. 85/1 Sugar plate, is White Sugar sifted, White of Egs, Gum Dragon and Rose Water beaten into a Paste, then moulded into any form, and so Print it. |