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

And a merry mouse in a mill, With a howdie crowdie, &c. &c.

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

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

Csesar and Grannie were at the preaching-house, Nancy Joe was cooking crowdie for supper, and Kate and Philip talked.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

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