pot liquor

American  

Or pot-liquor

noun

1. Midland and Southern U.S. the broth in which meat or vegetables, as salt pork or greens, have been cooked.

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pot liquor British  

noun

1. the broth in which meat, esp pork or bacon, and vegetables have been cooked

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Etymology

Origin of pot liquor

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

The pot liquor is indeed irresistible, especially with a handful of chopped cilantro added to it.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2014

That evening the women brought bowls of pot liquor from black-eyed peas, from mustards, from cabbage, from kale, from collards, from turnips, from beets, from green beans.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

To Aunt Jimmy she said, “You done caught cold in your womb. Drink pot liquor and nothing else.”

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

At dinner and supper the children were fed pot liquor and bread and sometimes milk that had been mixed together in the same manner.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

My labor was sawing stone; my food was coarse corn bread and beef shanks and cows heads with pot liquor, and a very scanty allowance of that.

From Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself by Bibb, Henry