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Definition of Potpies
1. potpie [n] - See also: potpie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potpies
Literary usage of Potpies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ladies' Home Cook Book: A Complete Manual of Household Duties : [with] Well by Marion Harland (1896)
"J. Breast, brisket-end used for baking, stews and potpies. In veal the hind
quarter is divided in loin and leg, and the fore quarter into breast, ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... later, many of the 'squabs,' which have the fatality to taste like chicken,
find their way into various fricassees and potpies to grace the table of the ..."
3. Spain and the Spaniards by Edmondo De Amicis, Stanley Rhoads Yarnall (1895)
"They make most too many potpies, they do not know how to use fat, and they season
a little too highly, but hardly enough to take away Dumas's appetite, and, ..."
4. A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland (1917)
"Mrs. Green put the birds into potpies but my mother would not do so. "I don't
believe in such game," she said. "It's bad enough to shoot the poor things ..."
5. What We Eat and what Happens to it: The Results of the First Direct Method by Philip Bovier Hawk (1919)
"This similarity in the action of "bob veal" and stewed chicken may be a further
incentive to use "bob veal" in chicken potpies, a practice which is not ..."
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