crowdie

Example Sentences

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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

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

Chorus—Ance crowdie, twice crowdie, Three times crowdie in a day Gin ye crowdie ony mair, Ye'll crowdie a' my meal away.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

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