berm-bo

Updated: May 8, 2025

At another little table under the back window, two girls stood, dining off one plate. The children were all eating a kind of light pudding, known in Lancashire by the name of "Berm-bo," or, "Berm-dumplin'," made of flour and yeast, mixed with a little suet.

Edwin Waugh - Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine