Show he e ORIGIN ORIGIN of the NAMES of FOOD i following explanation of the origin of f L the name of certain American dishes is given by an authority on food A dumpling is a good old English dish and andr r hues JIles tw's from the word that meant to sow POW down suddenly and the diminutive endly end- end ly r g ling The idea was a little cake that was fide ide by throwing raw dough into boiling water From Portugal comes the word marmalade pich 1 h was originally a sweet preserve made from rices and takes its name from marcelo the guese name for that fruit w Cruller is a good Yankee dish though it is isan is isan an In old German or Dutch word cake wing ning n ng little curled Pone is a word of Indian derivation and an anly Wy ly English historian of Virginia took pains explain that it was not from the Latin panis Shing ning nine bread but from the Red Indian word fene one ne and it was early applied in the South MY any bread made of Indian corn Pudding in its early form was made of minced at of some sort well seasoned and stuffed a f an intestine and then cooked by boiling fee ere are words word in many early languages mean- mean pudding ing but Lut it seems a originally to have come IUd from some word meaning a short body or inflated ed skin Nobody seems to know what muffin came from but it was probably derived from the word muff and it can be imagined that it might have been due to some similarity between the warm cake and the hand covering Fritter is from an old French word meaning to fry or a dish of fried fish which comes di directly directly directly di- di from the Latin th the past participle of the verb Waffle Waffie comes from wafer and wafer comes from the German word wabe a honeycomb or a cake of wax Originally wafers seem to have been beep hot like cakes-like modern waffles The association association association asso asso- of the cord wafer with extreme thinness thinness thinness thin thin- ness is of modern origin Sandwich takes its name from John Montague Montague Montague Mon Mon- tague fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1792 who used to have slices of bread with ham between served to him while he was at the gaming table so that he need not stop playing To go further back he derived his title from Sandwich a town in Kent England the name of which was made up of the Saxon Anglo-Saxon word sand and wic Iwic meaning town town sandy sandy town |