Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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†BAND-STRING, n.
1. A string or cord used as an ornamental fastening to a garment.Sc. 1816 Scott Antiquary ix.:
He saw a weel-fa'ard auld gentleman standing by his bed-side, in the moonlight, in a queer-fashioned dress, wi' mony a button, and a band-string about it.
2. “The designation given to a species of confection, of a long shape” (Sc. 1825 Jam.2).Sc. 1736 Mrs McLintock's Receipts 16, 38:
To make Band-String Cream. Take the same boiled Milk you take the Brats off, and the Juice of a Lemon, and a Gill of Sack, and set it on the Fire, till it break, and put it through your Band-string Shape . . . and serve them up. . . . How to make fine Bandstrings. To every Ounce of Cinnamon, take two Pound of fine Sugar, and to every Pound of Sugar for your Syrup, take half a Mutchkin and half a Gill of Water, clarify it well with the White of an Egg; cut your Cinnamon as small as a Pin, and before you cut it, steep it 24 Hours in Water; when the Cinnamon is past cupeling, mind to heat the Syrup to make them purle.
