[Sca-cooks] barding/larding

[James Prescott]

At 15:34 -0500 2001-06-17, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Thanks, Adamantius. I thought barding was also what the cloth that was
> sometimes used to decorate/cover horses was called.

Cloth or armour for a horse; later armour for men-at-arms; possibly
derived from an Arabic word for 'pack-saddle'.


> I wonder if the name for meat treatment was borrowed from that, or
> perhaps vice-versa. Can anyone with access to the OED tell us what
> they say about "barding"?

The OED says the culinary usage was later, and transferred from the
armour usage in both French and English.  The earliest citation they
give for the culinary usage in English is 1665 (which seems rather
late to me).


Thorvald