Also 6–7 clowted, -yd, 7 clawted. [f. CLOUT sb.2; or perh. f. a vb. clout = clot: cf. CLOTTED.] Said of the cream obtained by ‘scalding’ or heating milk, which makes it thick or clotted.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xii. (1870), 267. Clowtyd crayme and rawe crayme put together.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Nov., 99. She would … giue hem Curds and clouted Creame.
1586. Cogan, Haven Health (1636), 179. Clouted Creame, which is made by setting the milke ouer an easie fire, untill it come to a thicke head.
1637. B. Jonson, Sad Sheph., I. vi. Fall to your cheese-cakes, curdes, and clawted creame.
1784. J. Twamley, Dairying Exempl., 112. Butter that was made of heated, or clouted Cream.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 215.
