Rumtopf
n.— «The Rumtopf (fruit melange…) and Quiche…are easily made, but the lovely meringue and cranberry cream Vacherin…takes a little more loving care.» —“Holiday Menu” by Lillian Mackesy Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) Nov. 19, 1972. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Sara in Madison, Wisconsin, was reading an old edition of The Joy of Cooking and came across a recipe that described a cake’s ingredients as earrings for an elephant. She couldn’t discern whether the authors meant that was a good thing...