单词 | fufu |
释义 | fufun. A kind of dough usually made out of plantains, a traditional food of people of West African origin. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > other fruit dishes figee1381 garnadec1440 gayledea1450 strawberry cream1523 strawberry shortcake1523 amber pudding1695 fufu1740 tum tum1790 poi1798 fig-cake1837 compote1845 ambrosia1867 summer pudding1875 schalet1884 charoset1885 angels' food1891 stuffed olive1897 chartreuse1900 crisp1916 guacamole1920 fruit cocktail1922 pimiento olive1925 fruit cup1931 crumble1947 matoke1959 turon1972 guac1983 bumbleberry1991 1740 C. Leslie New Hist. Jamaica ii. 33 And boil it with beaten Maiz or Indian Corn, (which they call Fu Fu). 1826 A. Barclay Pract. View Slavery W. Indies 437 A negro..would greatly prefer his own good substantial dish of foofoo, composed of eddoes, ochras, and mashed plantains. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 977/2 This mass [of plantain boiled whole], beaten in a mortar, constitutes the foo-foo of the negroes [of British Guiana]. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Foo-foo, a negro name for dough made from plantains; the fruit being boiled and then pounded in a mortar. 1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. II. 144 ‘Fufu’ is composed of yam, plaintain, or casava; it is peeled, boiled, pounded and made into balls. 1888 Daily News 17 July 5/3 Plantains..form the staple of food with the natives, who beat them up into fufu. 1899 J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds 54 There were fou-fou soup, pepper-pot, barbecued meat, and piles of oranges. 1924 Glasgow Herald 8 Nov. 5 The women pounded their ‘fou-fou’ in the courtyard of the [Ashanti] village. 1930 Discovery Mar. 99/1 The various vegetables used for making the soups or sauces which flavour their fu-fu, a kind of porridge. 1959 Guardian 24 Oct. 4/5 Quantities of jollof rice and fufu were placed round about. 1964 E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds xiv. 141 The Shepherd's Bush market has a shop devoted wholly to West African foods..like..garden eggs and fou-fou, edwene and dried snails. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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