Middle English Dictionary Entry
hoche-pot n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hoche-pot n. Also oche-, hoge-, hogge- & hochepoche, hogpoch. |
| Etymology | OF, from Gmc. Sense (a) appears only in French context. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Law The blending together of property belonging to different persons for equal division; (b) cook. a kind of stew; esp. one made with goose, herbs, spices, wine, and other ingredients; gos (ges) in ~; (c) a mixture, a jumble.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (c1290) Britton 2 (Lamb 403)p.74 : Touz heritages ne cheent mie uniement en divisioun ne en hochepot, a partir entre parceners. ]
- [ c1320(1302-3) Yrbk.Edw.I in RS 31.3373 : Touz les tenemenz qe sunt donez a la une parcenere avant la mort le comun auncestre cherrout en hochepot ovesqe les altres tenemenz qe descendent. ]
b
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)97 : For to make Gees in ochepot..schald hem..and hew hem wel in gobettys..and seth hem in her owyn grees and cast therto wyn..onyons..and boyle yt.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.24 : Gees in hoggepot.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)432 : Goos in Hochepot. Take a goos not fully rosted, [etc.].
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)18 : A goos in hogepotte.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.32 : Gose in a Hogge pot. In pesis þou schalle þy gose stryke, Take water and wyne..Do in þy gose; and onyons..And erbus..Þen set þy pot over þo fyre, [etc.].
c
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2447 : Ye han cast alle hir wordes in an hochepot [vr. hoche poche].
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)27/471 : Þese sele frerys..han no consyans, A mon to take vij salerys, x trentale..And cast ham in a hogpoch to-gedur fore to daunce.