oxygal

Noun

oxygal (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Sour milk.
   • Oxygal, (Gr.) is sowre Milk.1707, Glossographia Anglicana Nova, or, A dictionary, interpreting such hard words of whatever language, as are at present used in the English tongue, with their etymologies, definitions, &c: also...
   • 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...1745, anonymous author, “How Oxygal, or sour Milk, may be made.”, in L. Junius Moderatus Columella Of Husbandry: In Twelve Books: and His Book Concerning Trees, London: A. Millar, translation of De...