Since we have counted food preparation methods among our food words, I will also count food storage vessels.
- 07.126 nuts, flour, sealed jars of dried fruits,
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Jam
Of course Bifur assumes that our industrious hobbit has jam. I am disconcerted to find that “jam” is not in The Ten Thousand. British breakfast reporters, you have been put on notice!
- 01.053 And raspberry jam
Honey
Everyone knows what honey is, but there is none mentioned in Bilbo’s larder, the feasts of Rivendell, or the food of the lake-men. Only Beorn the bear-changer keeps bees and in his house honey figures largely.
- 07.023 and honey.
- 07.116 and honey
- 07.121 and honey,’
- 07.126 and red earthenware pots of honey,
- 07.126 but honey was
Ham
Do you suppose that the Dwarves intentionally did Bilbo a favor by cleaning out his perishable goods before whisking him away on an adventure?
- 01.141 I like six eggs with my ham,
Fry
There’s more threatening to fry than actual frying going on, but it’s only a few mentions.
- 01.141 fried not poached,
- 05.002 He thought of himself frying bacon
- 06.074 fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
- 06.078 Bake and toast ’em, fry and roast ’em!
Flour
Thank you, Beorn, for your hospitality –
- 07.126 nuts, flour, sealed jars of dried fruits,
Delicious
The word “delicious” is around the five-thousandth most common word of British written English. There are not enough people writing about the amazing breakfasts I encountered in little rural B&Bs!
- 03.019 my dear! Isn’t it delicious!”
Cellar
The only cellars in The Hobbit are Bilbo’s at Bag-End and those of the Elvenking, and they are properly filled with food!
- 01.002 cellars, pantries (lots of these),
- 01.036 to the cellar to fill a pint beer-mug,
- 01.084 in the cellar,
- 01.123 and lanes, and tunnels, alleys, cellars, mansions and passages.
- 09.018 These opened upwards into the king’s cellars.
- 09.023 clearing the cellars of the empty wood,
- 09.030 and fortunately not far from the cellars.
- 09.035 down into the lowest cellars they crept.
- 09.039 and talking into the cellars
- 10.007 in the king’s cellars.
Update: 2016.10.04 – “cellar” is listed both as common and uncommon in my lemmatized source, although “cellars is always uncommon (less frequent than the most common ten thousand).
Boil
Most boiling is theoretical in the book, as a possible preparation method for dwarves or hobbits. In Chapter 13, it’s used as a gerundive to describe the motion of the water.
- 01.066 Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl;
- 02.002 boiled water,
- 02.080 and boil them,
- 02.086 and boil them.
- 02.087 “No good boiling ’em!
- 02.092 and boil them next time.
- 05.042 The answer’s not a kettle boiling over,
- 06.074 fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
- 13.048 there issued a boiling water,
Blackberry
We hear about the blackberries only as things that Bilbo doesn’t have at the moment.
- 04.003 and blackberrying,
- 06.039 but the blackberries were still only
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