made dish

plural made dishes

1. archaicA dish made of several different ingredients.First known use 16th c.

   ‘As for Maclaurin's imitation of a made dish, it was a wretched attempt.’

   1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 332

   2 more examples

   Suppose you get in cheap made dishes from the pastrycook’s, and hire a couple of green-grocers, or carpet-beaters, to figure as footmen, dismissing honest MOLLY, who waits on common days, and bedizening your table (ordinarily ornamented with willow-pattern crockery) with twopenny-halfpenny Birmingham plate.

   1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch, page 71

   Viand of Cyprus was a made dish, of fowl brawn, almond milk, rice, and spices, with strips of toast set round the dish.

   1880, Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart and Hearth, page 199