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Plum Duff, A Sea-Going Dessert
Most landlubbers would turn pale at the thought of eating plum duff. No wonder! It was the sea-going dessert on whalers, clippers, and other long-distance sailing vessels, and a far cry from the delicious desserts prepared in thousands of homes ashore.
Plum duff was a pudding of a sort. The ship’s cook concocted it of flour, water, molasses, and raisins (which were the plums).
It was heavy enough to sink a ship, and no doubt “stood by” the man who ate it. Yet doubtless it was an improvement over the preceding course of salt pork and moldy or weevily bread or hard tack.
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Posted by capelinks - (website) on 05/31/06
Categories: Food, History
Keywords: food, history, whaling
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