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

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

Place on rack in dripping pan, and dredge meat and bottom of pan with flour.

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

Place the ducks on rack in dripping pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, cover breast and legs with very thin slices of fat salt pork.

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

Place in a buttered, granite dripping pan one and one-half inches apart, sift sugar around dumplings and pour cold water over sugar.

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

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