[Sca-cooks] Any Port in a Storm

[Betsy Marshall]

I'm somehow reminded of the old fashioned "proofing the oven" ie a test item
put in to see if the oven was hot enough, too hot or not quite ready yet; 
(just .02 lira from a sleep deprived brain; make of it's worth no more than
that.)

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[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Ian Kusz
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 12:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Any Port in a Storm

ah, but you both, in a way, answered the direct question, and I thank you.

Interesting about the pudding.  Thought it might be testing whether it was
gelled, but if it's just a taste thing, it could apply to any food....the
proof of the soup, etc.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Daniel And elizabeth phelps <
dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Having sailed upon a stormy sea or two in my checkered past and wished 
> to be quit of it at those times I can assure any who question that 
> "any port in the storm" means exactly, religious exhortations not 
> withstanding, what it says. Thus in such circumstances the meaning of 
> the phase is closer to the use by Cleland than in the 1657 passage cited.
>
> Daniel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> OED also lists
>  [1657   S. Purchas Theatre Flying-Insects ii. 354   When weaker vessells
> beare saile only in a calme, a true vessell of Christ should saile 
> best to his wished port in a storme.]
>
> 1714   R. Cocks Sermon  6   Charity..is a safe Port in a Storm, an Asylum
> to the Fugitive, [etc.].
>
> Johnnae
>
> On Aug 10, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Daniel And elizabeth phelps wrote:
>
> > The question was:
> >
> > anyone know how old the saying is, "any port in a storm?"
> >
> > Earliest written use of the phase of which I an aware is as follows:
> >
> > I feeling pretty sensibly that it was not going by the right door, 
> > and knocking desperately at the wrong one, I told him of it: 
> > -"Pooh!" says he, "my dear, any port in a storm."
> >
> > "Fanny Hill" John Cleland 1749
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