A variant of crowdie; a Scottish or Northern English oatmeal and broth porridge, sometimes spelled differently in various regions.
From the same root as 'crowdie,' with the '-le' or '-el' ending being a regional variant suffix common in Scottish English. Different spellings (crowdie, crowdle, crodle) reflect oral tradition and regional pronunciation.
The fact that this dish had multiple spellings (crowdie, crowdle, crodle) tells us about how food names evolved orally in pre-industrial Scotland—people ate it, made it, and called it by ear, not by a written standard.
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