Pot liquor, sometimes spelled potlikker[1] or pot likker,[2] is the liquid that is left behind after boiling greens (collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens) or beans. It is sometimes seasoned with salt and pepper, smoked pork or smoked turkey. Pot liquor contains high amounts of essential vitamins and minerals including iron, vitamin A and vitamin C.[3]

In the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the term pot liquor is used to describe the broth left over from boiling multiple vegetables (potato, carrot, cabbage, etc.), usually with the dish known as Jiggs Dinner.

Background

The consumption of potlikker was common among enslaved people in the United States to concentrate nutrients from vegetables.[4] Most people crumble cornpone (corn meal mixed with a little salt and water, made into a pattie and baked until it is hard) into the potlikker.[5]

Southern Culture

In 1935, governor and U.S. senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., of Louisiana presented a treatise on potlikker during a 15-hour filibuster.[6] In his autobiography, Every Man a King, he defined "potlikker", a favorite of his country political supporters, as

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Pot Liquor or Potlikker?". The New York Times. 23 February 1982. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Covey, Herbert C.; Dwight Eisnach (2009). What the slaves ate: recollections of African American foods and foodways from the slave narratives. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-313-37497-5.
  3. ↑ "Pot Liquor (Likker)". Florida Heritage Foods Project. Santa Fe College. Retrieved 26 December 2025.
  4. ↑ Bower, Anne (2007). African American Foodways Explorations of History & Culture. University of Illinois Press. p. 48. ISBN 9780252031854.
  5. ↑ Edge, John T. (ed.). "Greens". The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
  6. ↑ "Huey Long Filibusters New Deal Legislation". United States Senate. Archived from the original on 4 February 2026.
  7. ↑ Huey Pierce Long, Jr., Every Man a King: The Autobiography of Huey P. Long (New Orleans: National Book Club, Inc., 1933), pp. 200-201.
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