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Pepper pot   /pˈɛpər pɑt/   Listen
Pepper pot

noun
1.
A soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings.  Synonym: Philadelphia pepper pot.
2.
A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.  Synonyms: pepper box, pepper shaker.



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"Pepper pot" Quotes from Famous Books



... mutton, and a pound of pickled pork. Half an hour before serving, clear a lobster or crab from the shell, and put it into the stew, adding a little salt and cayenne. Some people choose very small suet dumplings, boiled in the above, or fowl may be used instead of mutton. A pepper pot may indeed be made of various things, and is understood to consist of a proper mixture of fish, flesh, fowl, vegetables, and pulse. A small quantity of rice should be boiled with ...
— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

... I find that the butter is not very good. It makes a great difference. I shall have to use more pepper to counteract it. That's better. (She pours in pepper. The boy with the pepper pot sneezes violently.) Oh, oh, dear! Lend him your handkerchief, Chancellor. Knave, will you? (YELLOW HOSE silences the boy's sneezes with the KNAVE'S handkerchief.) I think that they are going to turn out very well. Aren't you glad, Chancellor? You shall have one if you will be glad and ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various

... of the bitter cassava, under the name of cassareep, forms the basis of the West India dish, "pepper pot." One of its most remarkable properties is its highly antiseptic power, preserving meat that has been boiled in it for a much longer period than can be done by any other culinary process. Cassareep was ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds



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