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

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

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

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

When enough meal had been added, and the stirring was completed, the crowdie was made. 

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

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