Pot Liquor

Word POT LIQUOR
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The word "pot-liquor" in example sentences

I gave him a dose of syrup of buckthorn, and put him on a diet of pot-liquor and vegetables till further orders. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They would give the slaves greens and the children pot-liquor. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Said her mistress come to the cabin to see about her and brought corn bread and pea pot-liquor. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Pioneer folk throve on pot-liquor to such an extent they had a saying that it was sinful to have too much -- pot-liquor and buttermilk at the same meal. ❋ Martha McCulloch-Williams (N/A)

For dinner they had meat boiled and one other thing like cabbage, and the children got the pot-liquor. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

A vessel to hold pot-liquor and other refuse from the kitchen for pigs. ❋ James Jennings (N/A)

Never throw away proper pot-liquor -- it is a good and cheap substitute for soup on cold days. ❋ Martha McCulloch-Williams (N/A)

They had little wooden trays and they would put little fat meat and pot-liquor and corn bread in the tray, and hominy and such as that. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

When I was a boy, the pot-liquor, in which the meat was boiled for the "great house," together with some little corn-meal balls that had been thrown in just before the meat was done, was poured into a tray and set in the middle of the yard, and a clam shell or pewter spoon given to each of us children, who would fall upon the delicious fare as greedily as pigs. ❋ Lunsford Lane (N/A)

Used to have pot-liquor with grease standin 'up on it. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Breakfast usually consisted of fat meat, molasses, and corn bread while supper consisted of pot-liquor, bread, and milk. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

We had plenty to eat like fat meat, turnips, cabbages, cornbread, milk and pot-liquor. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

The supplying of the household with its winter stock of candles was a harsh but inevitable duty in the autumn, and the lugging about of immense kettles, the smell of tallow, deer suet, bear's grease, and stale pot-liquor, and the constant demands of the great fireplace must have made the candle season a period of terror and loathing to many a burdened wife and mother. ❋ Carl Holliday (N/A)

Peggy, our negro cook, whereby without the knowledge of my mother, at about ten o'clock every morning I found myself in the kitchen eating from a small wooden tray corn-bread crusts soaked in "pot-liquor," a very filling, greasy, and satisfying mixture, which, ❋ John Allan (1914)

"B'iled in the pot-liquor!" she whispered, a knowing gleam in her blue eyes. ❋ Alice Brown (1902)

The dinner was nothing extra, -- just a plain, every-day, country dinner, with plenty of pot-liquor and dumplings; but the children were hungry, and they made short work of all that was placed before them. ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)

= -- Put a pint of plain boiled lentils into a sauce pan, cover them with any kind of pot-liquor, add one ounce of chopped onion, two ounces of drippings, quarter of an ounce of chopped parsley, and stew gently for twenty minutes; serve hot. ❋ Juliet Corson (1869)

For instance, the pot-liquor in which meat has been boiled needs only the addition of a few dumplings or cereals, and seasoning, to form a perfect nutriment. ❋ Juliet Corson (1869)

= -- This native product is a strong and nutritious food, and very economical; in addition to the ordinary hasty-pudding, or mush, it can be cooked with a little pot-liquor, meat, or cheese, so as to be both good and wholesome. ❋ Juliet Corson (1869)

Use the pot-liquor in which it was boiled, with quarter of a pound of rice, for the next morning's breakfast. ❋ Juliet Corson (1869)

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