17^th Century: Devonshire White-Pot

Recipes for white-pots appear in most seventeenth and eighteenth century cookery books. ‘Pot’ meant pudding in Devon dialect but, after a while, the pudding became connected to Devon in name too. Gervase Markham mentions, in his early seventeenth century book The English Huswife, that pots are puddings in the West Country. A Devonshire white-pot is a sweet, buttery bread pudding – th