thick milk, noun phrase

Origin:
South African DutchShow more Calqued on South African Dutch dikmelk curds and whey, clabber milk.
obs.
maas sense 1. Also attributive.
1826 A.G. Bain Jrnls (1949) 56Large wooden dishes containing a mess something like Scotch porridge, but made of Caffre Corn boiled in thick milk.
1852 R.J. Garden Diary. I. (Killie Campbell Africana Library MS29081) 17 Apr.Some Intombis came from the other kraal, viz: those who had brought the milk, the preceding evening, bringing sweet and thick milk and Caffir beer...A stranger (Caffir) won’t eat thick milk (Amasa) at a strange kraal, as it degrades him in the eyes of the maidens, it being considered womens’ food.
1867 E.L. Price Jrnls (1956) 256I am writing in the most awful din — a rabble of women all round me selling sweet-reed, mealies, thick-milk &c.
1881 E.L. Price Jrnls (1956) 463Thick milk was brought on. Very rich and stiff, & cheesy — but very sour!
1891 H.J. Duckitt Hilda’s ‘Where Is It?’ 77Mix well with the flour a pinch of salt, half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, a little pounded ginger, about a cupful of thick milk.
1897 J.P. Fitzpatrick Outspan 14We were jogging along doing our thirty miles a day, living on old mealies roasted on a bit of tin, and an occasional fowl..helped down by bowls of amazi — thick milk, you know.
1947 F.C. Slater Sel. Poems 82Amoss or Amase — thick milk usually kept in calabashes.
1951 S. van H. Tulleken Prac. Cookery Bk 274Thick Milk Soap. 10 lbs thick milk, 2lbs fat, 1lb caustic soda, 1 bottle water. Put thick milk over a fire, and just as it begins to boil, remove it, and pour it gently on to a sieve, and let it drain very thoroughly — the drier the better.
maas sense 1. Also attributive.
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