pokerouncen.
/ˈpɒkəraʊns/, U.S. /ˈpɑkəˌraʊns/ Now historical.
A sweetmeat consisting of toast spread with hot spiced honey.
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a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 3 (MED) Kalendare de Leche Metys..Pocerounce.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 41 Pokerounce: Take Hony, & caste it in a potte tyl it wexe chargeaunt y-now..Take Gyngere, Canel, & Galyngale, & caste þer-to [etc.].
1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vii. 248 There were also semi-solid versions, the most notable being ‘toste rialle’... Similar, though simpler, was ‘pokerounce’.
1990 Seattle Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Final ed.) (Pacific/Taste section) 16 The medieval English would make a dish called pokerounce, in which honey was heated with the sticky pink end of a fir branch resting in it.
2000 G. Campbell My Champion iv. 57 His smile was like honey poured slowly over pokerounce.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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