[Sca-cooks] Re: plums in plum pudding

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 01:35:17 -0600, StefanliRous at austin.rr.com wrote:
> Adamantius commented:
>> Makes sense, but I wonder at what point "prune" came to mean "dried
>> plum", when it used to mean, to English-speakers, a variety of plum
>> that frequently comes to us imported in dried form.
> Huh? So what type of plum is this? Was this type (in dried form) the
> only type of plum the English had access to?

Clasically, the damson, I believe.


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