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Ärende: Article: "Sugar Plums: They're Not What You Think They Are"
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From 2010. There are 9 comments.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/12/sugar-plums-theyre-not-what-y
ou-think-they-are/68385/?single_page=true

Apparently, even in Clement C. Moore's time, it didn't necessarily mean a
specific confection.

First paragraphs:

By Samira Kawash

"The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
"While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads..."

These famous lines you will surely recognize from the beginning of one
of America's most beloved poems, Clement Clark Moore's "A Visit from
St. Nicholas," a.k.a. "Twas the Night Before Christmas" (1823). I know
the poem by heart. But I always snag on the part where the children
nestle in their beds. What, exactly, is a sugar plum?

Please do not, dear reader, consult Wikipedia for wisdom on this matter,
as was my first instinct. There you will find reflected only the
contemporary prejudice linking sugar plums to actual fruit. It is
understandable that well-meaning frutivores would assume that the
traditional practice of preserving plums by boiling in sugar would
result in something that would obviously correspond to the term. But
this, from the perspective of history and tradition, is a confectionery
travesty.

The truth of the matter is that the sugar plum is not a plum at all, nor
does it contain any plum-like substance. The sugar plums of Christmas
fantasy are in fact sugar, and any resemblance to plums is entirely
superficial...

(snip)


In the mid-late 1970s, Cricket Magazine had a unique recipe (nothing like
what gets described in the article above). I don't have it with me, but it
was made with chopped dates, chopped walnuts, orange juice, and chopped
rind, with a nut in the center - or a candied cherry or pineapple, if
you wanted.


Lenona.

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