pudding
PUDDING
globulus (farinae; Varr. Cato): *globus ex farina Britannorum more factus. The proof of the pudding is in the eating exitus acta probat.
globulus (farinae; Varr. Cato): *globus ex farina Britannorum more factus. The proof of the pudding is in the eating exitus acta probat.
pudding: *placentae genus aqua coctum. (R. and A. give, globus ex farina Britannorum more factus; but this may equally denote a kind of cake; nor is a pudding necessarily round: Kr. gives, after Lünemann, cibi genus qui vocatur globus Anglicus, which may serve very well for a plum-pudding.) Yorkshire p., *placentae genus, ex ovis et carnis assae liquamine coctum. Prov.: the proof of the p. is in the eating, exitus acta probat (R. and A.): but the phr. is very far from the point and homeliness of the Eng.