pottage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a thick soup or stew made by slowly boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat

   The household shared a pottage of peas, barley, onions, and salted pork.

2. 2
   noun

   historical: a staple one-pot dish of boiled ingredients, especially in medieval and early modern Europe

   For many laborers, bread and pottage formed the ordinary evening meal.

From Middle English pottage and Anglo-French potage, formed from pot + -age. It originally named food cooked in a pot and became especially associated with the thick soups and stews that were staple dishes in medieval Europe.

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