A made dish is one composed of several ingredients, as opposed to just one. Thus, a bowl of steamed peas is not a made dish, but cannelloni stuffed with cheese and served with sauce is. The term was first used at the beginning of the seventeenth century; although most chefs respect the skill required to prepare a good made dish, seventeenth-century authors generally used the term as a dismissive metaphor, a synonym for hodgepodge or farrago.