pottage

The effort to tame them can’t be traded away for a mess of union pottage.

A knife or fork with horizontal handles does not sit naturally in the curved structure of a trencher or a pottage bowl.

Their beverage is made from rice instead of barley, and their food consists for the most part of rice pottage.

They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage.