1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 9:
"Another fruit of fraudulent type growing on the plains is the quandong. Something in shape and colour like a small crab-apple, it is fair enough to the eye, but in taste thoroughly insipid."
<hw>Quart-pot</hw>, <i>n</i>. a tin vessel originally imported as a measure, and containing an exact imperial quart. It had no lid, but a side handle. Before 1850 the word <i>Quart-pot</i>, for a kettle, was as universal in the bush as "<i>Billy</i>" (q.v.) is now. The billy, having a lid and a wire handle by which to suspend it over the fire, superseded the quart-pot about 1851. In addition to the <i>Billy</i>, there is a <i>Quart-pot</i> still in use, especially in South Australia and the back-blocks. It has two sidehandles working in sockets, so as to fold down flat when travelling. The lid is an inverted <i>pannikin</i> fitted into it, and is used as a drinking-cup.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 43:
"`Look out there!' he continued; `quart-pot corroborree,' springing up and removing with one hand from the fire one of the quart-pots, which was boiling madly."
<hw>Quart-pot Tea</hw>, <i>n</i>. Explained in quotations. Cf. <i>Billy-tea</i>.
1878. Mrs. H. Jones, `Long Years in Australia,' p. 87:
"Ralph, taking a long draught of the quart-pot tea, pronounced that nothing was ever like it made in teapots, and Ethel thought it excellent, excepting that the tea-leaves were troublesome."
188. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia, p. 111:
"`Quart-pot' tea, as tea made in the bush is always called, is really the proper way to make it. . . . The tea is really made with boiling water, which brings out its full flavour, and it is drunk before it has time to draw too much."