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ˈwhite-pot, ˈwhitepot Also 6–7 whitpot. [pot n.1 1 b.] A dish made (chiefly in Devonshire) of milk or cream boiled with various ingredients, as eggs, flour, raisins, sugar, spices, etc.; a kind of custard or milk-pudding. Also attrib.
1577Batman Golden Bk. Leaden Gods 30 Hee is caried on the Backes of foure Deacons, after the maner of carying Whytepot Queenes, in Westerne Maygames. 1578Lyte Dodoens iv. xiv. 468 The meale of Bockewheate is vsed..to make pappe, whitpottes and..cakes of light digestion. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1590) A ij b, Some auncient familiaritie betweene a western fellow, and a whitpot. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Gt. Eater Kent Wks. i. 146 The Norfolk Dumplin, and the Deuonshire White-pot. 1632Brome Northern Lasse v. viii, Ha' you any Whitpots? 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. iv. 19 They served in this whitepot⁓meat to him in a huge great Bell. 1708W. King Cookery (1709) 75 Cornwal Squab-Pye, and Devon White-Pot brings, And Lei'ster Beans and Bacon. 1747H. Glasse Cookery ix. 79 A Rice White-Pot. 1880Hardy Trumpet-Major xvi, Seventy rings of black-pot, a dozen of white-pot, and twenty-five knots of tender..chitterlings. |