scheam

Updated: May 9, 2025

Certainly we gain from this "scheam" a very clear notion of the style of living of this genteel Boston family. There is, of course, no possibility of exactly picturing the serving of a meal in early days; but one peculiarity is known of the dinner the pudding came first. Hence the old saying, "I came in season in pudding-time."

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England