Crossword clues for clabber
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clabber \Clab"ber\, n. [See Bonnyclabber] Milk curdled so as to become thick.
Clabber \Clab"ber\, v. i. To become clabber; to lopper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mud," 1824, from Irish and Gaelic clabar "mud." Also often short for bonnyclabber.
Wiktionary
n. 1 sour or curdled milk 2 wet clay or mud vb. to sour or curdle milk
WordNet
n. raw milk that has soured and thickened
v. turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clot] [ant: homogenize, homogenize, homogenize]
Wikipedia
Clabber (also known as Clob, Klob or Clobber) is a four player trick-taking card game that is played in southwestern Indiana near Evansville. Clabber is a member of the Jack-Nine family of card games that are popular in Europe. The game is a four player variation of Klaberjass, which was brought to the area by 19th-century German immigrants. The game differs from Euchre in that you are not awarded the number of tricks you take, but the actual point value of cards in those tricks. Additional points can also be scored for a combination of cards in your hand.
Clabber is a food produced by allowing unpasteurized milk to turn sour at a specific humidity and temperature. Over time, the milk thickens or curdles into a yogurt-like substance with a strong, sour flavor. In rural areas of the Southern United States, it was commonly eaten for breakfast with brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, or molasses added. Some people also eat it with fruit or black pepper and cream. Prior to the now-popular use of baking soda, clabber was used as a quick leavener in baking. Due to its stability, clabbered milk has been popular in areas without access to steady refrigeration.
Clabber was brought to the South by the Ulster Scots who settled in the Appalachian Mountains. Clabber is still sometimes referred to as bonny clabber (originally "bainne clábair", from Gaelic bainne — milk, and clábair — sour milk). Clabber passed into Scots and Hiberno-English dialects meaning wet, gooey mud, though it is commonly used now in the noun form to refer to the food or in the verb form "to curdle". A German version is called Dickmilch (thick milk), a Scandinavian filmjölk. In France, a similar food made from cream is known as crème fraîche.
Clabber was sometimes served with a specialized spoon. This is a serving utensil formed with the handle made at a 90 degree angle from the spoon bowl, to accommodate the manner in which clabber had to be ladled out of the container in which it formed.
With the rise of pasteurization the making of clabber virtually stopped, except on farms that had easy access to unprocessed cow's milk. A somewhat similar food can be made from pasteurized milk by adding a couple of tablespoons of commercial buttermilk or sour milk to a glass of milk.
Clabber (1936–1947) was a Quarter Horse stallion known as the Iron Horse for his ability to run and win match races after a day of ranch work.
Clabber may refer to:
- Clabber, a card game
- Clabber (food), a food made of curdled milk
- Clabber (horse) (1936–1947) an American Quarter Horse stallion
- Clabber Girl, a brand of baking powder, baking soda, and corn starch popular in the United States
- Clabbers, a variation of Scrabble
Usage examples of "clabber".
A west wind picked up, and all morning the clouds came in, a few stipples at first, then a sky-spanning reach of them, like a spill of clabbered milk against a blue dish.
In fact, if he hadn’t been just too damned lazy, he might’ve spared a mind to sneak a peek at what was going on inside the heads of Block and Relway and maybe even that scab of clabbered misery off the Hill, Perilous Spite.
AH I could think of was the gray clabbered skies over Maisry’s body, the kites circling, the crash of Sir Roland’s armor as he undressed—vivid as yesterday.
The man behind the bar nodded as he scooped clabbered milk from a stoneware jug under the bar.
His face registered those small changes which shock produces-the slight quiver of an eyelid, the mouth lengthening and then softening, a subtle clabbering look, vanishing as quickly as it appeared.
The meteors seemed to her like a warning, like tiger stripes, like luminous grave slats clabbering her blood.
I should tell the maids to make clabber cheese with what's left of it, not throw it to the pigs.
The firemen were hosing down the pavement, and the air smelled of hot iron and clabbered milk.
After a cold corn pone and a bowl of clabbered milk for lunch, I came back to look at the wreck again, and watch the empty sky.