Obs. Ale mixed with the jelly or minced meat of a boiled cock, besides other ingredients.
a. 1648. Digby, Closet Open. (1669), 174. To make Cock-Ale. Take eight Gallons of Ale; take a Cock and boil him well.
1675. Woman turn’d Bully, III. iii. 52 (N.). Did you ever taste our Cock-ale?
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 15. Pectoral Ale … may be made Cock-Ale, by adding a cock parboil’d, bruis’d and cut into pieces.
1743. Lond. & Country Brewer, III. (ed. 2), 194. Cock-Ale [full directions].
