Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dish made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread or rice, and sometimes fruit, spices, etc., baked in a pot. or in a bowl placed in a quick oven.
- noun A drink consisting of port wine heated, with a roasted lemon, sugar, and spices added.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A kind of
food made ofmilk orcream ,eggs ,sugar ,bread , etc., baked in apot .
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Examples
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For all this lady was bred at court, she became an excellent country-wife, she brought ten children, and when I shew you the library, you shall see in her own hand (allowing for the difference of the language) the best receipt now in _England_ both for an hasty - pudding and a white-pot.
The Coverley Papers Various
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For all this lady was bred at court, she became an excellent country wife, she brought ten children, and when I show you the library, you shall see in her own hand (allowing for the difference of the language) the best receipt now in English both for a hasty pudding and a white-pot.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887
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Also thirty rings of black-pot, a dozen of white-pot, and ten knots of tender and well-washed chitterlings, cooked plain in case she should like a change.
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884
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But a Devonshire white-pot must needs have much more;
Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England Unknown 1833
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For all this lady was bred at court, she became an excellent country-wife, she brought ten children, and when I shew you the library, you shall see in her own hand (allowing for the difference of the language) the best receipt now in England both for an hasty-pudding and a white-pot.
Days with Sir Roger De Coverley Joseph Addison 1695
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England both for an hasty-pudding and a white-pot.
The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' Joseph Addison 1695
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