Meanings
plural Murrumbidgee jams
- countableuncountableA spread made from cold tea and brown sugar.
Even the basic damper mixture could be treated in all sorts of different ways – mixed with dried fruit, spread with cold tea and brown sugar (a concoction known as Murrumbidgee jam), or cooked on top of a stew to form a pie crust.
1977, Richard Daunton-Fear and Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery (discussing 19th century cookery)Synonyms: whaler's delight
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA spread made from cold tea and brown sugar.
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Murrumbidgee jam. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Murrumbidgee%20jam
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