cream-pot

Should your dairy not be cool enough for the purpose, it is best effected by keeping the cream-pot in water as cold as you can procure it, and by making the butter early in the morning, and placing cold water in the churn some time before it is used.

Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it Miss Coulton

This, in the winter, was effected by bringing the cream-pot into the kitchen over night, and if the weather was very cold, placing it on a chair a moderate distance from the fire for about a quarter of an hour in the morning: boiling water was likewise put into the churn for half an hour before it was used.

Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it Miss Coulton

Mrs. Larkins's cream-pot, butter-jar, and bread-box were within easy reach.

In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879

He was still quite trying sometimes, leaving the milk-room door open when puss was watching for the cream-pot, or slamming the kitchen door with a bang when everybody needed fresh air.

Captain Horace Sophie May 1869

A silver sugar-dish, shaped like the half of a small muskmelon, stood modestly by the dapper cream-pot.

Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck 1864

I found that his manners had been neglected; for he was inclined to walk over the butter, drink out of the cream-pot, and put his fingers in the jelly.

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Louisa May Alcott 1860

When she went in, she carried her pretty pats in one hand, the cream-pot in the other, and entered the breakfast room looking as brisk and rosy as a little milkmaid.

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. Louisa May Alcott 1860

"It's not often they're taken down, except to wash," she said, as with a snowy napkin she dusted the fairy-like cream-pot.

The Orphans of Glen Elder 1859

Grace was so glad to see him, that she actually kissed him this time; and Bobtail felt as though he had tumbled into a cream-pot.

Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. Oliver Optic 1859

"Edson's dog has eat up six chickens, a cream-pot, a rolling-board, pie-crust, and all!" exclaimed Mrs. Mumbles, with a frantic air, as she fell into her husband's outstretched arms, wholly unmindful of the laughter her appearance and words had excited among her good man's customers.

Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858