Hodge-Podge (soup)
Hodge-podge or hotch potch (variously capitalised and hyphenated) is a soup or stew, usually based on diced mutton or other meat, with green and root vegetables. It is familiar in different versions in Britain and North America and is particularly associated with Scotland.
This article is about the general soup/stew. For the Dutch unmashed vegetable stew, see Hochepot. For the Dutch mashed vegetable dish, see Hutspot.Type
Soup or stew
Mutton, beef, veal or other meat;
green vegetables; root vegetables
Etymology[edit]
The Oxford English Dictionary definition is: "A dish made of a mixture of various kinds of meat, vegetables, etc., stewed together" and "esp in Scottish = Hotchpotch – A dish containing a mixture of many ingredients; spec. a thick soup of barley, peas, and other vegetables, and sometimes meat".[1] The word derives from the Anglo-Norman and Middle French hochepot, "a dish containing a mixture of many ingredients, especially a kind of stew made with minced beef or goose and various vegetables".[1]