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‖ kedgeree|ˈkɛdʒəriː|
Forms: 7 kits-, ketch-, quiche-, kichery, cutcherry, 8 kitcheree, -aree, 9 kedjerie; keg-, kedg-, kidgeree, khichri.
[Hindī khichrī, Skr. k'rsara ‘dish of rice and sesamum’.]
a. An Indian dish of rice boiled with split pulse, onions, eggs, butter, and condiments; also, in European cookery, a dish made of cold fish, boiled rice, eggs, and condiments, served hot. Also transf. and fig.
1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 81 Their ordinary Diet being onely Kitsery, which they make of Beans pounded, and Rice, which they boile together... Then they put thereto a little Butter melted. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 81 Their delightfullest Food being only Cutchery, a sort of Pulse and Rice mixed together. Ibid. 320 Here is a great Plenty of what they call Ketchery. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xiv. 161 Some Doll and Rice, being mingled together and boyled, make Kitcheree. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master 51 The servant enters with a dish, Containing kedgeree and fish. 1867Bp. Fraser in Hughes Life (1887) 143 Kedgeree is a capital thing for breakfast. 1879Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Ind. Househ. Managem. 88 Kegeree is composed of the remains of cold fish, and is usually a breakfast dish. 18..Mrs. Beeton Househ. Managemt. 140 Kegeree.
fig.1909in Webster. 1928R. Campbell Wayzgoose ii. 48 English, art, music, vegetables, and song, All to the same consistency you mash. Your life—a Kedgeree! Your mind—a hash! 1938Archit. Rev. LXXXIII. 3/1 Winstanley's Eddystone was a remarkable kedgeree of bits and pieces—its builder had previously been known chiefly for some remarkable waterworks in Hyde Park. 1968R. West Sk. Vietnam ii. 65 Furniture, clothes, shrines..were heaped on to the lorry in a gigantic kedgeree.
b. Comb., as kedgeree-pot, a large earthenware pipkin, used for holding water and cooking.
a1826Heber Jrnl. (1828) I. 123 On the Hoogly very large nets..are used, with Kedgeree pots for floats. 1830Mountain in Mem. (1857) vi. 117 A small raft of Kedgeree pots. 1839Thackeray Major G. i, To boil them in kedgeree pots. |