[Sca-cooks] Sugar Plums

Micaylah dy018 at freenet.carleton.ca
Sat Aug 7 14:06:32 PDT 2004


> That is sugarplum (no space) and they are a confection related to comfits
> from the 17th Century.  The specific confection is first
> referenced around
> 1660-70, but a more general use of the term appears in 1608.
>
> Bear

Ah, I see. Have never heard of them (as a plum variety), nor seen them
around here. Sounds quite lovely but the sounds of it.

Micaylah - who loves plums




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