fishkettle

plural fishkettles

1. alternativeAlternative form of fish kettle.

   After a while she got up to go downstairs and check with the cook about dinner. There was to be salmon, an enormous beast poached in one of The Court’s giant fishkettles.

   1989, Elizabeth Walker [pseudonym; Elizabeth Rotter], chapter 29, in The Court, London: Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Ltd, →ISBN, page 271

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   “[…] There’s some copper.” / “Not galleons and men-in-armour fire-irons?” / “No, real old stuff. Fishkettles and things. And a gorgeous slop pail covered in the proverbial violets, would you believe?”

   1984, Josephine Boyle, chapter 3, in A Spectre in the Hall, London: Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Limited, →ISBN, page 57

   I’ve written out a chit for two of those old fishkettles Surgical Stores got on their back shelves. […] The whole of Florence was now closed; isolation notices were going up like bunting; and Dodds had lit the anthracite stove, put up the old ping-pong table and installed fishkettles and his primus in the Lecture Room renamed by the entire staff, the Leper Colony.

   1987, Lucilla Andrews, chapter 3, in The Phoenix Syndrome, Bath: Lythway, Chivers Press, →ISBN, pages 72 and 78

   Mrs Panton advised that a thrifty middle-class kitchen could survive with only six saucepans of ‘medium quality’ though achieving a sophisticated range of dishes required an array of stewpans, fishkettles, sauté pans, steamers, boilers, sieves, colanders, moulds, funnels, dredgers and so on.

   2010, Kathryn Ferry, “Below Stairs”, in The Victorian Home, Botley, Oxon: Shire Publications Ltd, →ISBN, part one (Living in the Victorian Home), pages 50–51