Meaning of oxygal | Babel Free

Definitions

Sour milk.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Oxygal, (Gr.) is sowre Milk.”

“Make oxygal, or sour Milk, after this manner: Take a new pot, and bore a hole in it, hard by the bottom; then with a sprig stop up the hole you have made, and fill the vessel with the freshest ewe-milk, and to it add small bundles of green seasoning herbs, origany, mint, onion, coriander: put these herbs so far down into the milk, that the strings, wherewith they are tied, may appear on the outside.”

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