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prettygoodwordclabber (KLAB-uhr) - n., sour milk that has thickened or curdled. v., (of milk) to curdle, to make thick with souring.
This is the Americanized form of Irish bonnyclabber, milk allowed to sour and thicken to a consistency similar to yoghurt (and which I will neither confirm nor deny may have happened inside milk containers in my fridge). It used to be a stable of breakfasts in the southeastern United States, but with pasteurization nearly universal it is harder to make and is no longer common -- I've no idea if it's still common in Ireland (or Scotland). Boonyclabber is from Irish Gaelic bainne clabair, where everyone agrees the bainne is milk, but the clabair is obscure -- some assert it's from the dasher or the lid of a churn, others that it's from clábar, mud.
---L.
This is the Americanized form of Irish bonnyclabber, milk allowed to sour and thicken to a consistency similar to yoghurt (and which I will neither confirm nor deny may have happened inside milk containers in my fridge). It used to be a stable of breakfasts in the southeastern United States, but with pasteurization nearly universal it is harder to make and is no longer common -- I've no idea if it's still common in Ireland (or Scotland). Boonyclabber is from Irish Gaelic bainne clabair, where everyone agrees the bainne is milk, but the clabair is obscure -- some assert it's from the dasher or the lid of a churn, others that it's from clábar, mud.
---L.
