scotched collops
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Scotch collops
- scotcht collops[1] (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Reanalysis of earlier Scotch collops from Scotch (“of Scotland”) to scotched (“that has been cut”).[2] The dish was labeled variously during the 18th and 19th centuries as Scotch collops, scorched collops, or scotched collops, among others.[3] The latter form is first attested from the 18th century, with Scotch collops from the 17th.[4]
Noun[edit]
scotched collops pl (plural only)
- (now chiefly US) A dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments.
- 1708, William King, “The Art of Cookery”, in All Poetry[1], retrieved 2-15-2023:
- What signifie Scotcht-Collops to a Feast?
Or you can make whip'd Cream! Pray what Relief
Will that be to a Saylor who wants Beef?
- [1829, Margaret Dods, The Cook and Housewife’s Manual, page 285:
- 438. Scotch-Collops.*―Cut small slices of equal thickness out of the fillet […] *This properly means scotched, or scored collops, though the word has come to be understood as above.]
- [1882, Eliezer Edwards, Words, facts, and phrases; a dictionary of curious, quaint, and out-of-the-way matters, page 501:
- Scotched Collops. In cookery books and on bills of fare we are constantly meeting with this term, spelt ‘Scots collops’ or ‘Scotch collops.’ The dish, however, has not a Scottish origin. The collops, or slices of flesh, before being cooked are ‘scotched,’ which means, according to Worcester, that they are ‘cut with shallow incisions, or in a slight manner.’]
- 1899, Herbert Maxwell, “Our obligations to wild animals”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 166, page 232:
- cakes and ales those may still have who can command them, but down with the roast-beef of Old England! be scotched collops anathema maranatha, and Irish stew accounted an unclean thing!
- 1995, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 183:
- Like scaloppine, scotched collops must not be overcooked or they will take on a texture not unlike dried buffalo.
- 2017, Graham Masterton, The Coven, page 157:
- You will also be served oysters and scotched collops and quails and chickens, as well as biscuits and tarts and various sweetmeats.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “Scotch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “scotched collops, n.” under “scotched, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
- ^ Samuel Johnson (1800) A Dictionary of the English Language, page 4007: “Scotch Collops or Scotched Collops, skótchʹ kól-lúps. n. ſ. [from To scotch or cut.] Veal cut into small pieces.”
- ^ “Scotch collops, n.” under “Scotch, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022.
