How To Use Pottage In A Sentence
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Culinary education nowadays tells that me that peasants ate beer, beans, peas and "pottage" which was basically a soup made of everything you have.
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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.
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-- 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
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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
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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.
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The pottage would be thickened with oats, barley or bread.
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I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
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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.
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I added barley to what remained and boiled it until we had a thick pottage.
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I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
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Imagine, I've become the porridge princess- I can bewitch the oats and water into a pottage that makes the young men laugh and old men cease their laughter- me, an incomer, with not a word of Gaelic and a name that's not an island name, aye, right enough, and laundry on the line on Sunday- do you know my secret?
Hebrides
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And, when you come to think of it, Jacob's mess of pottage is the most expensive dish on record.
Janey Canuck in the West
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the child was eating pottage from a porringer
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Leek pottage was especially popular - but the crops used depended on what a peasant had grown in the croft around the side of his home.
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I put my signature to certain indentures, received my pottage, and fled from his presence.
The Dignity of Dollars
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Let us put it a thought less dumpishly; and render thanks because our pottage smokes upon the table, and we are blessed with excellent appetites.
The Certain Hour
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Wisdom vies with cleverness, banal truth runs alongside barefaced delusion; a pottage of self-contradictory homilies for the credulous and childish.
Times, Sunday Times
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[01: 36] matociquala: If it wasn't stew, it would just be pottage, which is stew with oats in it.
I should have read your letters
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I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
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Esau probably thought the pottage was a good exchange, too, but look how that turned out.
"Joe D'oh Puts O in 'Crisis' Mode."
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I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
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Leek pottage was especially popular - but the crops used depended on what a peasant had grown in the croft around the side of his home.
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Every day, the pupils would have milk or milk pottage for breakfast, a vegetable-based dinner at midday, and broth with a piece of bread for supper.
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Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage
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Imagine, I've become the porridge princess- I can bewitch the oats and water into a pottage that makes the young men laugh and old men cease their laughter- me, an incomer, with not a word of Gaelic and a name that's not an island name, aye, right enough, and laundry on the line on Sunday- do you know my secret?
Hebrides
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They have commonly pottage for dinner, composed of cale or cole, leeks, barley or big, and butter; and this is reinforced with bread and cheese, made of skimmed-milk — At night they sup on sowens or flummery of oat-meal — In a scarcity of oats, they use the meal of barley and pease, which is both nourishing and palatable.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
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I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
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I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
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So, Horace's simple dish would have been a vegetable stew or pottage, and it is most likely that the lagani added to it were small squares or strips of fried dough.
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Here the common mode of using it is to cut it in small squares, and boil it in the mandioc pottage, which is the principal food of the poorer inhabitants and the slaves.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
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Here the common mode of using it is to cut it in small squares, and boil it in the mandioc pottage, which is the principal food of the poorer inhabitants and the slaves.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
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That's a popular delicacy, much more appealing to some tastes than "pottage" - especially when it is said to be a "mess".
Archive 2009-03-01
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Most meals would have been some form of stew, soup or pottage cooked in a cauldron over the central hearth of the house.
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I believe I was having her stir a respectable pottage ," says Margarethe.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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But beware of insulting the mess of pottage, which is as respectable as when newly out of the pot.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852
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Vermicelli noodles were first brought from Italy, where the food was in 'great vogue'; it was chiefly used in soups and pottages, 'to provoke venery' or sexual gratification.
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B : Do you think I'll depart from my correct stand just for a mess of pottage?
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Or will they instead, like so many lambs led willingly to the slaughter, allow themselves to be demutualised - like Esau in the Bible surrender their birthright for a mess of pottage?
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Evelyn commended the use of young shoots in salads or ‘in a vernal pottage’, while Caleb Threlkeld gave a recipe for an Irish ‘Lenten Potage’, a soup based on alexanders, watercress, and nettles.
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Now, there was in Jewry a prophet called Habakkuk who made pottage and broken bread to take to the reapers in the field.
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