[Sca-cooks] Question to the Group

[Terry Decker]

In Middle English, "clammy" usually means "sticky."  It may derive from the
German "klam" meaning "stickiness" or from the Old English "clam" meaning
"mud" or "clay."

The bivalve clam probably derives from the Old English "clamm" meaning
"bond" or "fetter."

Bear


>Notable is the absence of clams in all this, but even though the
>adjective "clammy" appears two or three times in the medieval English
>recipe corpus, clams as food don't seem to appear in the recipes we have
>for the upper classes.
>
>Adamantius