Lancashire hotpot
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Lancashire hotpot is a stew originating in Lancashire in North West England. It consists of lamb or mutton and onion, topped with sliced potatoes and slowly baked in a pot at a low heat.
History and etymology
In the 17th century, the word "hotpot" referred not to a stew but to a hot drink—a mixture of ale and spirits, or sweetened spiced ale.[1] An early use of the term to mean a meat stew was in The Liverpool Telegraph in 1836: "hashes, and fricassees, and second-hand Irish hot-pots"[2] and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) cites the dish as being served in Liverpool in 1842.[1] The Oxford Companion to Food (OCF) cites Elizabeth Gaskell's 1854 novel North and South, depicting hot-pot as the most prized dish among cotton workers in a northern town.[3][4]
The OED gives the etymology as "hot adj. + pot n.", and cites the analogous French term pot-au-feu.[1] The OCF refers to earlier forms of the term: "hotchpotch" (a mixed dish, typically a meat and vegetable stew) and "hotchpot", from the medieval French hochepot.[3]Template:Refn A Book of Cookrye (1591) gives a recipe for hodgepodge, using "neck of mutton or a fat rump of beef", cooked and served in a broth thickened with bread.[5] The term "hotchpotch" for a stew continued into the 19th century: Mrs Beeton (1861) gives a recipe under that name for a beef and onion stew in beer.[6]
Hotpot became associated with Lancashire. In the OCF the food historian Roy Shipperbottom writes: Template:Blockindent
Preparation
The recipe usually calls for a mix of mutton (nowadays more frequently lamb[7]) and onions covered with sliced potato, and slowly baked in a pot containing stock or sometimes water.[8][9] Some early recipes add lamb kidneys or oysters to the dish.[8]
The traditional Lancashire hotpot dish is tall, round, and straight-sided, with a lid.[3][8] Regardless of the baking dish, the lid should fit tightly.[7]
Lancashire hotpot is traditionally served with pickled red cabbage.[8]
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References
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- ↑ "To Viscount Sandon, MP", The Liverpool Telegraph, 9 November 1836, p. 6
- ↑ a b c Shipperbottom, p. 1224
- ↑ Gaskell, pp. 359–360
- ↑ "A Book of Cookrye", "To make a hodgepodge", Early English Books, University of Michigan. Retrieved 21 January 2023
- ↑ Beeton, p. 101
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See also
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