1.0Glossaryhttps://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossaryGlossaryhttps://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/author/adminglossary/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="0Mxuqu0dnv"><a href="https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/cock-a-leekie/">Cock-a-leekie</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/cock-a-leekie/embed/#?secret=0Mxuqu0dnv" width="600" height="338" title="“Cock-a-leekie” — Glossary" data-secret="0Mxuqu0dnv" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Cock-a-leekie.jpg800599Several dishes get their names because they contain a cock cooked with something else. Cock-a-leekie, as its name suggests, is made by boiling a cock with leeks, a dish first referred to by name in the mid eighteenth century. Likewise, cock-ale, a dish invented in the mid seventeenth century, is made by mixing beer with the minced meat of a boiled cock. A much older dish, now obsolete both in name and as a menu item, is cockagrice, made by boiling together a cock and a small pig, and then roasting them on a single spit. The last half of cockagrice—grice—emerged in the early thirteenth century and derives from the Old Norse gris, meaning a young pig; gris is actually still current in English but has been overshadowed by suckling, which appeared in the mid fifteenth century to describe a pig still being nursed by its mother. The word cockagrice closely resembles cockatrice, the name of a mythical serpent whose glance could kill, but the name Rof this mythical monster is Greek in origin and has nothing to do with either cocks or grices; nonetheless, sixteenth-century mythographers felt compelled to account for the cock in cockatrice somehow, so they reshaped the anatomy of the cockatrice, giving it the head of a cock and the tail of a serpent. It was as this fearful chicken-snake that the cockatrice subsequently appeared in the coats of arms of many British aristocrats.Cock-a-leekie is a well-known Scottish soup that is typically prepared by boiling a fowl with leeks.