Words for Food
Here are some interesting words for food, from dialect or past times....
Belly-timber: food
Carbando: meat broiled over coals
Critouns: frying-pan refuse
Earth-apple: a potato
Froise: a pancake with bacon cooked in (yum!)
Gallimaufry: a hash of several sorts of meats
Hodgepudding: a pudding of many ingredients
Hogoo: a highly flavoured dish
Juncate: cheesecake
Kissing-comfit: a small confection used to sweeten the breath
KISSINGCRUST: crust formed when two loaves of bread touch in the oven
Lubber-wort: food of little or no nutritional value
Lunch(luncheon): as much food as one's hand can hold
Maw-wallop: a badly cooked mess of food
Nunchion: food eaten between meals
Opsony: anything eaten on bread
Panado: food made by boiling bread in water
Pinionade: a conserve made with pine nuts
Prog: food
Puddingpie: pudding with meat baked in
Rosee: a dish flavoured with rose petals
Sambocade: a fritter flavoured with elder flowers
Scandal broth: tea
Shive: a slice of bread
Sillabub: a drink of milk and spiced cider
Sippet: a small piece of bread for dipping into soup or gravy
Spoonmeat: liquid food: food eaten with a spoon
Succade: fruit preserved in jelly
Sucket: a sweet
Voidee: a parting dish( consumed at leavetaking or at bedtime)
Whitemeat: food made of milk