pot-liquor

I gave him a dose of syrup of buckthorn, and put him on a diet of pot-liquor and vegetables till further orders.

The Moonstone 2003

Breakfast usually consisted of fat meat, molasses, and corn bread while supper consisted of pot-liquor, bread, and milk.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Said her mistress come to the cabin to see about her and brought corn bread and pea pot-liquor.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

Never throw away proper pot-liquor -- it is a good and cheap substitute for soup on cold days.

Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

For dinner they had meat boiled and one other thing like cabbage, and the children got the pot-liquor.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

A vessel to hold pot-liquor and other refuse from the kitchen for pigs.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

They would give the slaves greens and the children pot-liquor.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Work Projects Administration

Used to have pot-liquor with grease standin 'up on it.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

We had plenty to eat like fat meat, turnips, cabbages, cornbread, milk and pot-liquor.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

The supplying of the household with its winter stock of candles was a harsh but inevitable duty in the autumn, and the lugging about of immense kettles, the smell of tallow, deer suet, bear's grease, and stale pot-liquor, and the constant demands of the great fireplace must have made the candle season a period of terror and loathing to many a burdened wife and mother.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday