Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — BIRTH OF SUCCULENT "DUFF" [ARTICLE]

BIRTH OF SUCCULENT "DUFF"

Pudding That la the Favorite of Sailors Given Name by Illiterate „ Captain Turner of the Mauretania recounted the other day the birth of plum duff, the dish, of sailors. “Duff,” he said, “had a Christmas origin. One Christmas day, hundreds of years ago, at sea, a ship in a storm was swept by a comber that carried off her cook, her cratei of chickens, her turkeys—in a word, the whole raw material of her Christmas dinner. But the sailors were determined to pudding. They knew nothing about cooking, and they drew lots for their new cook. -The lot fell to the boatswain’s mate. “This chap fished up a cook book from the bottom of his sea chest, ran over the pudding recipes, and chose one that began: “ ‘Make a stiff dough.’ “He made a pudding after this recipe. It was? stuffed with Malaga raisins and covered with a rich sauce. The men were delighted. “ ‘Put a name to it,’ they said. ‘Put a name to it.’ J “And the boatswain’s mate, knowing that ‘r-o-u-g-h’ Was pronounced ‘rough,’ and thinking ‘d-o-u-g-h’ followed the same rule, answered readily; “ *lt’s called duff, mates,* ”