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

The pot-au-feu of France and Switzerland, the olla podrida of Spain, the borsch of Poland, the tschi of Russia, the macaroni of Italy, the crowdie of Scotland, all are practical examples of this fact.

From The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery by Corson, Juliet

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

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

There was a frog lived in a well, Heigho crowdie!

From Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 by Various