pottage

How To Use pottage In A Sentence

• Culinary education nowadays tells that me that peasants ate beer, beans, peas and "pottage" which was basically a soup made of everything you have. RECIPE: Irish Soda Bread
• For this is all about capitalism - the transfer of loyalties bought for a mess of pottage, or more precisely the chance of a better television deal for the new and unlikely bedfellows.
• -- French Tr. [34] Literally the passage would run, "Feed me, I pray thee, with that red, that read," the word pottage being understood. "the repetition of the epithet, and the omission of the substantive, indicated the extreme haste and eagerness of the asker. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
• Then must thou fetch water in barrels and fill the four fountains; after which thou must take three hundred and threescore and six wooden bowls and crumble the cracknels therein and pour of the lentil-pottage over each and carry every monk and patriarch his bowl. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Griselda among herbs, may be given with admirable effect in pottage, as a domestic aperient, "loosening the belly, helping the jaundice, and dispersing the tympany. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• The pottage would be thickened with oats, barley or bread.
• I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish. 
• Season with salt and as much verjuice as will only turn the taste of the pottage; serve up covering meat with whole herbs and adorning the dish with sippets.
• I added barley to what remained and boiled it until we had a thick pottage.
• I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.