dripping pan

American  

Or drip pan

noun

1. a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings.

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dripping pan British  

noun

1. a shallow pan placed under roasting meat to catch the dripping

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Etymology

Origin of dripping pan

First recorded in 1425–75

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Example Sentences

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dripping pan

Stuff the cavity with dressing, sew up the opening and place in dripping pan.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

Place the stuffing in the hare, and place at a distance from the fire; have plenty of dripping melted in the dripping pan, and basting should go on and be continued from the very first.

From Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode by Harriet A. de Salis

Return the strained fat to the dripping pan and place on the range.

From Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners A Book of Recipes by Elizabeth O. Hiller

Meat when put down to roast, should have about a pint of water in the dripping pan.

From The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

Arrange six or eight thin slices of fat salt pork in bottom of dripping pan, slice an onion thinly over pork, add a bit of bay leaf and arrange halibut over onion.

From Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners A Book of Recipes by Elizabeth O. Hiller

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