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† plum-broth Obs.
A kind of thick broth or soup made of beef, prunes, raisins, currants, white bread, spices, wine, sugar, and other ingredients; formerly a Christmas dish. Probably dried plums or prunes were the original characteristic.
a1613Overbury Charact., Puritan, Good bits he holds breed good positions, and the Pope he best concludes against, in plum-broth. 1652J. Collinges Caveat for Prof. xxx. (1653) 118 He hath more mind to the plum-broth then the devotion of the day. 1713Queen's Royal Cookery (Nares) To make plumb-broth. Take a leg of beef, and a piece of the neck..two pound of currans..three pound of raisins of the sun, three pound of prunes well stew'd..have a two-penny white loaf grated, mix it with some of the broth, and put the pulp of the prunes to it..garnish the dish with some of the stew'd prunes, some raisins and currans out of the broth. 1724Pope Lett. (1735) I. 283 A thing call'd Christian Chearfulness, (not incompatible with Christmas Pyes and Plum-broth). [1864Chambers' Bk. Days II. 755/2 Plum-broth figures in Poor Robin's Almanac for 1750, among the items of Christmas fare.] |