Also 6–7 whitpot. [POT sb.1 1.] A dish made (chiefly in Devonshire) of milk or cream boiled with various ingredients, as eggs, flour, raisins, sugar, spices, etc.; a kind of custard or milk-pudding. Also attrib.
1577. Batman, Golden Bk. Leaden Gods, 30. Hee is caried on the Backes of foure Deacons, after the maner of carying Whytepot Queenes, in Westerne Maygames.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, IV. xiv. 468. The meale of Bockewheate is vsed … to make pappe, whitpottes and … cakes of light digestion.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc. (1590), A ij b. Some auncient familiaritie betweene a western fellow, and a whitpot.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Gt. Eater Kent, Wks. I. 146. The Norfolk Dumplin, and the Deuonshire White-pot.
1632. Brome, Northern Lasse, V. viii. Ha’ you any Whitpots?
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, II. iv. 19. They served in this whitepot-meat to him in a huge great Bell.
1708. W. King, Cookery (1709), 75. Cornwal Squab-Pye, and Devon White-Pot brings, And Lei’ster Beans and Bacon.
1747. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, ix. 79. A Rice White-Pot.
1880. Hardy, Trumpet-Major, xvi. Seventy rings of black-pot, a dozen of white-pot, and twenty-five knots of tender … chitterlings.
