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† ˈplum-ˈporridge Obs.
Porridge containing prunes, raisins, currants, etc.; formerly in favour as a Christmas dish. Probably, as in plum-broth, the dried plums or prunes were the original characteristic, and gave the name.
1591Lyly Endym. v. ii. 69 A great platter of plum-porridge of pleasure wherein is stued the mutton of mistrust. 1608Heywood Rape Lucrece iii. Wks. 1874 V. 200 My Lords, the best plumporedge in all Rome cooles for your honours. 1698W. King tr. Journ. London 5 Prunes..they have not had enough to lay round their Plum-porridge at Christmas. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. v, Plum-porridge and minced pies. 1808Scott Marm. vi. Introd. 67 There the huge sirloin reeked; hard by Plumb porridge stood, and Christmas pye. 1901Daily Chron. 25 Dec. 5/1 The plum-pudding may be said to be a work of evolution, and to have supplanted entirely the older dish of plum-porridge, with its congeners the December and Christmas pies. |