[Sca-cooks] barding
Gretchen Beck
grm at andrew.cmu.edu
Sun Feb 18 21:28:06 PST 2007
--On Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:37 PM -0600 Stefan li Rous
<StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> <<< Another method is called "barding" by laying the caul fat from
> around
> a stomach over a very lean piece of meat. I've seen that happen on
> Iron Chef a couple of times.
>
> Gunthar >>>
>
> Don't they also call the cloth and decorations used on a horse,
> "barding"? Is there a connection? Can someone with access to the OED
> check this?
>
The OED derives the cooking term from the term for horse armor
(bard/barding).
toodles, margaret
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