[f. STEW sb.2 or v.2 + PAN sb. Cf. Du. stoofpan.] A saucepan for stewing (see quot. 1858).
1651. T. Barker, Art of Angling (1820), 14. Taken out of the stew-pan and dished.
1674. Engl. & Fr. Cook, 2. Put him [the Carp] in a Stew-pan with a quart of White-wine.
1747. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, ii. 14. Then butter your Stew-pan, and shake some Flour into it.
1853. Soyer, Pantropheon, 66. Each piece was well washed before putting it into the stewpan.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Stew-pan, a shallow sauce-pan of iron, copper, or block tin.
1915. Daily Tel., 14 Aug., 10/2. Next lay the prepared fish … in a large, deep stewpan.
b. transf. and fig.
1772. Smollett, Humph. Cl., 5 May (1815), 66. To lead a weary life in this stewpan of idleness and insignificance.
1863. G. H. Kingsley, Sport & Trav. (1900), 397. That tideless stewpan of a harbour can be little less unwholesome than that of Naples.
c. attrib.
1839. Mag. Dom. Econ., IV. 174. When onions are fried as a flavouring substance in stewpan-cookery.
1846. Soyer, Cookery, 545. Turn it over upon the bottom of a stewpan-lid.
