crowdie

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Rob searches for a closer connection to his family members, hoping to understand their self-sustaining way of life, including fishing for herring, cooking over peat fires and making crowdie cheese.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2024

“Let’s have a crowdie night,” he would say; and forthwith a kettle of boiling water was ordered in, with a basin of oatmeal. 

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel

Crowdie ance, crowdie twice: Crowdie three times in a day: An ye crowdie ony mair, Ye'll crowdie a' my meal away. 25th, Christmas Morning.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

But saw ye ne'er some pingein' bairn As weak as a pitaty-par'n' - Less used wi' guidin' horse-shoe airn Than steerin' crowdie - Packed aff his lane, by moss an' cairn, To ca' the howdie.

From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis

To enjoy crowdie at his age, besides, indicated that he still possessed that quality on which no doubt much of his practical success in life had depended,—a strong and healthy digestion.

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel