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howtowdie Sc.|haʊˈtaʊdɪ|
Also howtoudie, how-towdy.
[‘Not recorded in O.Sc. but appar. O.Fr. hétoudeau, estaudeau, a fat young chicken for the pot’ (S.N.D.).]
A dish whose main ingredient is a chicken (see quot. 1951).
1728A. Ramsay Poems II. 230 They all, in an united Body, Declar'd it a fine fat How-towdy. 1759E. Cleland New & Easy Method Cookery (ed. 2) iv. 91 You may do Howtoudies, or any white Fowl, the same Way. 1901Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 8 Howtowdie is another old Scotch dish. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 513/1 Howtowdie, a Scottish dish consisting of boiled chicken with poached eggs and spinach. 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 222/2 Howtowdie, Scots for pullet, possibly related to the old French hutaudeau... Eggs are poached in gravy or broth and placed around the bird on the carving dish, each on a pat of spinach. |