Definition of Boiled dinner

1. Noun. Corned beef simmered with onions and cabbage and usually other vegetables.

Exact synonyms: New England Boiled Dinner
Generic synonyms: Dish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boiled Dinner

boil down
boil off
boil order
boil orders
boil over
boil smut
boil the ocean
boil up
boil wash
boilable
boilaries
boilary
boildown
boildowns
boiled
boiled dinner (current term)
boiled egg
boiled eggs
boiled sweet
boiler
boiler cupboard
boiler horsepower
boiler room
boiler rooms
boiler suit
boiler suits
boilerhouse
boilerhouses
boileries
boilermaker

Literary usage of Boiled dinner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"boiled dinner. A boiled dinner consists of warm unpressed corned beef, served with cabbage, beets, turnips, carrots, and potatoes. After removing meat from ..."

2. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1919)
"Dinner: Soup, New England boiled dinner, date pudding. Supper: Cold meat, prune sauce, tea. Breakfast: Oatmeal and milk, broiled steak, potato, rolls, ..."

3. Things Mother Used to Make: A Collection of Old Time Recipes, Some Nearly by Lydia Maria Gurney (1913)
"New England boiled dinner This consists of corned beef, white and sweet potatoes, cabbage, beets, turnips, squash, parsnips and carrots. ..."

4. Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home by Christine Frederick, American School of Home Economics (1919)
"If one vegetable and a soup are to be boiled why not instead make an all-boiled dinner with meat, vegetables, after the New England "boiled dinner" or the ..."

5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"(NED) boiled dinner. Meat and vegetables boiled together in the New England ... 1897 The woman brought in a good boiled dinner of corned beef, potatoes, ..."

6. My Diary in America in the Midst of War by George Augustus Sala (1865)
"I looked over the tariff, and found that "boiled dinner" cost forty cents. What is a boiled dinner ? Soup, fish, turkey and oysters, vegetables, ..."

7. Miss Parloa's Kitchen Companion: A Guide for All who Would be Good Housekeepers by Maria Parloa (1887)
"*A boiled dinner. Despite the array of savory viands and delectable dainties which may be produced by following modern modes of cooking, there is, ..."

8. The Chicago Herald Cooking School: A Professional Cook's Book for Household by Jessup Whitehead (1883)
"This hungry man's delight which we have before us is the New England boiled dinner. I* U much more pleasant to treat of a thing as the very ..."

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