pottage

How To Use pottage In A Sentence

• 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
• 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.
• Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage
• 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
• 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
• I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish. 
• I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish. 
• I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish. 
• 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.
• 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