Definition of Double saucepan

1. Noun. Two saucepans, one fitting inside the other.

Exact synonyms: Double Boiler
Generic synonyms: Saucepan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Saucepan

double quasar
double quasars
double quick
double quote
double quotes
double quotidian fever
double reed
double refraction
double replacement reaction
double replacement reactions
double reverse
double rhyme
double room
double rooms
double salt
double saucepan (current term)
double scull
double sculls
double sharp
double sharps
double sheet bend
double space
double spaced
double stain
double standard
double standards
double star
double star system
double star systems

Literary usage of Double saucepan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Good Cookery Illustrated: And Recipes Communicated by the Welsh Hermit of by Augusta Waddington Hall Llanover (1867)
"... and, well stirring it, covered it over, and left it to stew slowly in a double saucepan,* (a vessel surrounded by boiling water,) for three-quarters of ..."

2. Modern methods in nursing by Georgiana Jane Sanders (1922)
"Cook in a double saucepan for fifteen minutes. Add sugar to taste, and flavor, ... Add a pinch of salt and cook for twenty minutes in a double saucepan. ..."

3. Kettner's Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1877)
"In the language of the French kitchen, to cook au bain marie means simply to cook in a double saucepan—the water in the outer saucepan being kept ..."

4. The Housekeeper's Guide: Or, A Plain & Practical System of Domestic Cookery by Esther Copley (1838)
"Put it in a basin, and stand that in a kettle with cold water, or in a double saucepan; let the water boil round the cream. It will then keep twenty-tour ..."

5. Food and Hygiene: An Elementary Treatise Upon Dietetics and Hygienic Treatment by William Tibbles (1907)
"Mix all the ingredients together in a double saucepan or in a jar which can be ... Put the materials into a double saucepan over a fire, bring slowly to ..."

6. A Treatise on Food and Dietetics Physiologically and Therapeutically Considered by Frederick William Pavy (1881)
"This consists of a kind of double saucepan, the inner vessel containing the joint or other article to be cooked, and the outer some water, ..."

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