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ˈpepper-pot
1. a. = pepper-box 1.
1679Lond. Gaz. No. 1381/4 One Mustard Pot and Pepper Pot of silver. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Beauty, What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom!
b. In various allusive and figurative uses: cf. pepper-box 1 b, 2, 4.
1838James Robber vi, Wiley would have been in the pepper-pot at Uppington by this time. 1886Cornh. Mag. July 29 The old workhouse is gone, and a new one with golden vanes and pepper-pots has arisen in its stead. 1894Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 105 Apologise for saving that old pepperpot's life!
2. a. A West Indian dish composed of meat (or fish, game, etc.) and vegetables stewed down with cassareep and red pepper or other hot spices. Also attrib. in pepperpot soup.
1698E. Ward Trip to Jamaica 15 They make a rare Soop they call Pepper-Pot. a1704T. Brown Lett. fr. Dead ii. Wks. 1760 II. 215 That most delicate palate-scorching soop called pepper-pot, a kind of devil's broth much eat in the West Indies. 1792Wolcott (P. Pindar) Rights of Kings Ode ii, Terrenes of flatt'ry are prepar'd so hot By courtiers—a delicious pepper-pot. 1796Stedman Surinam (1813) II. xxvi. 292 Pepper-pot is a dish of boiled fish and capsicum, eaten with roasted plantains. 1899Rodway Guiana Wilds 122 She quickly returned with a calabash of thin pepper-pot and a cake of cassava bread. 1899[see foo-foo]. 1949Caribbean Q. I. i. 20 Pepper pot..is..the method devised by the aboriginal South American Indians to conserve the food they have got by hunting or fishing. 1958R. Howe Cooking from Commonwealth 387 (heading) Jamaica. Pepperpot soup. 1961F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk xvi. 336 Cassava liquor—once known as casareep and the basis of the traditional pepperpot soup—is not however favoured. 1965‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest vi. 81, I can smell pepper-pot and peas. 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 296/2 Jamaican pepperpot soup is thickened with yam or coconut. 1970M. Slater Caribbean Cooking 10 Coalpots..used in the country, and for traditional stews and pepperpots requiring prolonged cooking. 1971Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Sept. (Guyana Suppl.) p. i/1 Casareep, syrup-like substance left after poison has been boiled out of juice of bitter cassava, used to prepare pepperpot. 1973Ibid. 29 June 7/3 (Advt.), From the choicest Continental cuisine to the spicy Barbadian—from the generous cut of prime sirloin to the traditional Barbadian pepperpot soup—the food is the best.
b. In Pennsylvania, a stew of tripe and doughballs highly seasoned with pepper. (Cent Dict.)
1794Massachusetts Spy 13 Mar. 1 A wag in my neighbourhood, a lover of pepper pots. 1800C. Macpherson Mem. 205 ‘And what have you got for dinner..?’—‘Me have got peppa pot, Massa.’ 1825J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. xiv. 231 Whose principal trade consists in the exportation of Toughy and Pepper Pot. 1930J. Williamson Amer. Hotel 217 A..list..of American culinary creations..would include such concoctions as..Philadelphia pepper-pot. 1946S. Hibben Amer. Regional Cookery 25 Lay in Dumplings for Pepperpot and cook as directed.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1883G. Macdonald Donal Grant I. 34 One house with the pepper-pot turrets. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 27 A hill, on whose summit stands Fort William, a pepper-pot⁓like structure now used as a lighthouse. |