crock

noun, an earthenware pot or jar (COD)

“Mother made a big three-tiered Christmas cake, and she put it in a crock, but she put it in a cool part of a bedroom that was there.”

“You know all you had was maybe the cellar floor or a white, ten-gallon crock to set the stuff in down cellar in the summertime in the hot weather.”

“Did you sell piglets or did you raise them and eat them?”
“Dad raised them up to 200 pounds, mostly, eh.”
“You’d keep one or two for yourselves.”
“Yeah. Then they’d kill them in the fall of the year, and then put it in crocks in the brine, eh, and make a salt brine.”