white-pot

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white-pot (plural white-pots)

  1. (UK, Devon, dialect) A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, etc., baked in a pot.
    • 1905, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, Newport: Our Social Capital:
      Old Violet was a worthy colored woman who kept a goody shop, where school children could buy journey or johnny cake, white pot, or poor man's custard, and candy

References[edit]

white-pot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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