kitchen-fee
[See fee n.2 8. So called as being a perquisite of the cook.]
The fat which drips from meat in roasting; skimmings of fat; dripping.
| 1485 Inv. in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 371, ij petræ et iiij lb. de kychyn fee, vijd. 1560 Richmond Wills (Surtees) 147 In tallowe, kytchynfye and butterr, xs. 1614 Markham Cheap Husb. ii. xxiii. (1668) 79 Anoint the place with Tarr, Turpentine, and Kitchin-fee, mixt together. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's ii, The diet-loaf, raised wi' my ain fresh butter..and no wi greasy kitchen-fee. |