单词 | posole |
释义 | posolen. 1. In Mexican and Central American cooking: maize prepared by boiling and steeping in an alkaline solution and grinding, for use in food or drink, hominy; (also) maize stew or soup made with this as the principal ingredient, typically also containing pork, beans, and red chilli. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > grain dishes > [noun] > maize dishes posole1699 succotash1751 Tom Fuller1820 agidi1853 corn on the cob1867 nixtamal1896 ogi1957 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. iv. 113 If they travel for two or three Days from Home, they carry some of this Grown'd Maiz in a Plantain Leaf, and a Callabash at their Girdles to make their drink, and take no farther care for Victuals, till they come Home again. This is called Posole: And by the English Poorsoul. It is so much esteemed by the Indians, that they are never without some of it in their Houses. 1850 E. G. Buffum Six Months in Gold Mines 167 We..found two tall, naked Indians, engaged in cooling their evening meal of pozzoli, or boiled corn. 1908 E. R. Emerson Beverages, Past & Present II. xvi. 425 An atole, in one part, and posole, in another, inserted into a calabash of water..will afford a beverage that is welcomed indeed by the fatigued and heated traveller. 1934 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 784/2 Outside, several persons lay dozing, while an old woman stirred a caldron of boiling corn called pozole. 1955 Sci. Amer. 84 3 They liked the young American, who cheerfully shared in their noon ‘posole’. 1985 T. C. Boyle Greasy Lake 86 In the kitchen it hits him: pozole in a pot on the stove, carnitas in the saucepan, [etc.]. 2004 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 15 Apr. 8 They also serve a posole that will bring tears to the eyes of anyone who ever grew up on the hearty hominy soup. 2. A drink consisting of maize sourdough and water. ΚΠ 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. iv. 114 In long Journeys they prefer this Drink before Posole. 1907 A. M. Tozzer Compar. Study Mayas & Lacandones 186 I will dip out upon your mouth my offering of posol to you. 1926 N.Y. Times 30 May xx. 9 In northern Yucatan he found Indians putting out bowls of posole (a drink made of corn) as offerings to the Wind God. 1937 Sci. Amer. Nov. 465 Mayas generally drink pozole, which consists of raw corn meal in cold water. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1699 |
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