No! Maisie It didn't matter who cooked the "clootie" - mother, aunties, or grannies ;-) The skin on them all simply made me boak!!! I just scraped it off, and enjoyed eating the dumpling itself -- and hoping to find a silver 'thrupney' (threepenny) bit in my serving! Jim Message: 2 Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:26:16 -0800 From: "Maisie Egger" <campsiehills@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [Lanark] Scottish Word for Today Coup & Boak 12,12,2015 To: <LANARK@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <159C59B9951747B7961C4B852B13FB37@MaryHP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Scottish Word for Today December 12, 2015 BOAK/BOKE Jim Arnett, on this list, made me smile in his response to eating the skin of the clootie dumpling and nearly having the boak. I don?t remember any of us having that experience. Maybe the cook at Jim?s was ?off? that day. Ahem! The very word itself makes me want to boak! My mother serving tripe and onions, to be followed by semolina (cream of wheat) dessert, would not only make me want to boak, but would send me into a most glorious tantrum as the visual image of tripe floating in milk and butter was so off-putting visually, but also an offence to my tastebuds. I was bemused that the well-known t.v. ?Galloping Gourmet,? London-born Graham Kerr, concocted this fancy, ?gentrified? tripe and pig?s foot recipe. Not for me! A rose is a rose! http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tunisian-tripe-recipe.html Definitions of boak boak (bok; b??k ) verb, noun 1. a variant spelling of boke boke or boak or or bock (bok; b??k) (Scottish) verb 1. to retch or vomit noun 2. a retch; vomiting fit Word Origin Middle English bolken; related to belch, German b?lken to roar Perhaps Nivard will suggest that boak/boke is a word also used in England! Maisie