[Sca-cooks] Mollycoddle was OOP: What are they teaching are kids?

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius1 at verizon.net
Thu Jan 7 14:03:49 PST 2010


On Jan 7, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> You rang?
> 
> Checked OED-
> 
> For the noun mollycoddle it all leads in a number of ways:

As the OED all too often tends to do, this all makes perfect sense, and yet leaves me feeling only about 98% convinced by the logic. I can't find a flaw in it, but still wonder if some 18th-century English cook, who had been exposed to some French techniques and terms, had in among his or her utensils for cooking eggs, a mollet coddler for the purpose of cooking mollet coddled eggs.

Adamantius








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