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breakfast cereal
breakfast cereal a food made from grain , commonly eaten in the morning. The oldest type of cereal, known as porridge or gruel, requires cooking in water or milk. The modern breakfast cereals, however, are entirely precooked and eaten in cold milk. The first precooked cereal was probably invented ... Read more
quinoa
quinoa , tall annual herb ( Chenopodium quinoa ) of the family Chenopodiaceae ( goosefoot family), whose seeds have provided a staple food for peoples of the higher Andes since pre-Columbian times. The plant resembles the related lamb's-quarters of North America; its seeds are threshed, winnowed, a... Read more

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Porridge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture PORRIDGE PORRIDGE. Porridge is generally defined as a dish made by stirring oatmeal or rolled oats into boiling water and simmering the mixture gently until it is cooked. It is usually eaten hot; often, though not invariably, for breakfast...
Porridge, Pottage, Gruel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture PORRIDGE, POTTAGE, GRUEL PORRIDGE, POTTAGE, GRUEL. In Great Britain, porridge is synonymous with hot oatmeal gruel, a common breakfast food that also has become an icon of Scottish cookery or at least an icon of presumed Scottish origin...
Breakfast
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...then boiled them to make a kind of porridge. Roman soldiers woke up to a breakfast of pulmentus, a porridge similar to the Italian polenta, made...made from barley and oats, or a bowl of porridge. In warmer climates, rice became a...
Curds
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...any sort of cowpea that was cracked (pounded) and cooked for porridge. A crowder pea was a porridge pea, and in the Scotch-Irish cookery of Appalachia, this porridge might also contain whey or curds, or even both. In rural Scotland...
Ireland
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...Products Wheat products were consumed mainly as porridge and bread in early and medieval Ireland. Porridge was food for children especially, and a...cereal crop, most commonly used for oaten porridge and bread. Baking equipment mentioned in...
Kenya
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World ...maize, potatoes, and beans. Ugali (a porridge made of maize) and meat are typically...ugali , which is thick and similar to porridge. Many Kenyans eat this on a daily basis. It takes a lot of practice to boil the porridge without burning it. Ugali is usually...
Sweden
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World ...14 Julgr ö t (Swedish Christmas Porridge) .......................... 18 Svart...anything but ordinary. Husmanskost , once referring to tasteless porridge and other gruel, has come to represent savory stews, roasts
Lamb Stew
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...khoresche esfanaj Lemon, dill, and green vegetables. keshkeg herriseh Porridge of lamb and wheat with onion, bay leaf. Syria, yukhnee Tomatoes...broadest variety of manifestations — from a lamb-and-wheat porridge, to a
Iubdan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...dared Iubdan to go to Fergus's palace and taste the king's porridge. Iubdan and Bebo, his queen, arrived at the palace at midnight, but while trying to get at the porridge so he could taste it and be gone before daybreak, Iubdan fell...
West Africa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...been the first important crop, and may have been eaten in a porridge. The techniques developed for crop cultivation of fruits...enjibotchi (rice with sauce), ekoa (durra [a sorghum grain] porridge), killishi (roasted meat, marinated and basted with oil...

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porridge
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology porridge †pottage or soup XVI; soft food made with oatmeal XVII. alt. of POTTAGE , intermediate forms being repr. by podech (XVI), podditch , -idge .
grout
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...now obs. or dial.) coarse meal; infusion of malt OE.; coarse porridge XVI; sediment XVII. OE. grūt , corr. to MDu. gr...The later meanings are prob. due to Scand. (cf. ON. grautr porridge) and Du.
Claut
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms Claut a handful or rakeful, from the verb meaning ‘ claw ’ or ‘ scratch. ’ Examples: claut o ’ siler [silver], 1793; claut o ’ cauld porridge [cold porridge], 1818.
Iubdán
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...him to travel to Emain Macha so that he may be the first there to eat porridge in the morning. As Eisirt correctly predicted, Iubdán clumsily falls into the porridge, is captured, and is kept prisoner for a year. In the bawdy Aided...
Babettes Gaestebud
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...kindly but puritanical Danish sisters, she is taught how to make their dreary daily food of cod and ale-bread, a kind of porridge. In the story, "during the demonstration the Frenchwoman's face became absolutely expressionless," but she soon learns...
Eisirt
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...then laid a demeaning geis on Iubdán; the king must travel himself to Emain Macha and be the first there to eat porridge in the morning. Eisirt then correctly predicted that Iubdán would fail and be imprisoned for a year and a day...
koko
Book article from: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition koko West and Central African; sour cereal porridge made from maize, millet or sorghum that has been soaked and left to undergo lactic acid bacterial fermentation for 24 hours, then boiled.
kushuk
Book article from: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition kushuk Iraqi; parboiled wheat and turnip allowed to undergo lactic acid bacterial fermentation for 4–10 days; liquid used as soup and the solid eaten as porridge or mixed with vegetables. Also an alternative name for kishk .
pottage
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology pottage dish of vegetables and/or meat boiled to softness XIII; † oatmeal porridge XVII. — (O)F. potage , f. pot POT ; see -AGE .
Goldilocks economy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management Goldilocks economy A colloquial term for an economy that combines low inflation with steady economic growth. Such an economy is “not too hot, not too cold, but just right” – like the porridge in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears .

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mush
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...mush • noun   1. some sort of grayish mush synonyms : pap, pulp, slop, paste, purée, mash, porridge; informal gloop, goo, gook, glop, sludge, guck.   2. romantic mush synonyms : sentimentality, mawkishness...

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Porridge power
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 9/28/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...haughtily aristocratic. Think of oatmeal porridge though and the unfortunate image that...doom-mongering Scotsman. Poor old porridge has always had an image problem. It...austerity. Not for nothing is "doing porridge" the slang term for a prison sentence...
Porridge with a drop of whisky --now that's comfort food.(Features)(Recipe)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 1/11/2010; 700+ words ; ...was crammed with pots and pots of ready-made porridge. I'm passionate about porridge. So I'm thrilled that it is enjoying such...nutritious and it's full of health benefits. Porridge has the proportion of protein needed for repair...
PORRIDGE AT ITS most basic ; FOOD SPY
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 11/12/2008; ; 527 words ; PORRIDGE AT ITS most basic think of Scottish shepherds pouring their porridge into a kitchen table drawer to set overnight so...congealed strips as a packed lunch the following day porridge can be pretty hard to swallow. But whether you...
DOING PORRIDGE; Why the dish has been ditched from our prisons The Government last week revealed that prisoners no longer do porridge, sparking fears for the future of an age-old breakfast dish. JIM JONES reveals how to spice up an old favourite.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England); 7/23/2006; 700+ words ; ...of being a mainstay of prison menus, porridge has been axed. The jailbird played by...complain. The news, last week, that porridge is out with inmates signals the decline...simply, convicts are no longer doing porridge. And there are fears among fans that...
Rice porridge hot
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 7/21/2007; ; 470 words ; ...New Straits Times 07-21-2007 Rice porridge hot Byline: Suryani Dalip Edition...for the indisposed, the humble rice porridge now has eateries dedicated to serving...my mum would make bubur nasi or rice porridge whenever I had little appetite for food...
Pret-a-porridge: The trendy new cafes that will offe nothing but oat cuisine.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 10/17/2004; 700+ words ; ...simple combination of oats and water, porridge has never needed any marketing in the...a chain of cafes offering nothing but porridge - albeit in a number of guises. Companies...model Sophie Dahl confessed a diet of porridge helped her slim from a size 16 to a size...
It's porridge ..but not as we know it; OAT CUISINE: TRENDY ENGLISH RESTAURANTS MAKE CEREAL FASHIONABLE.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 1/23/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...happened to Scotland's oldest delicacy. Porridge is suddenly trendy. And, even worse...spurtle - to claim they started the great porridge rush. In just a matter of months, its...from a ladle, so we thought we'd give porridge a try. "We started doing a few portions...
WHOS BEEN EATING OUR PORRIDGE? EVERYONE!
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/15/2008; 700+ words ; ...smallwooden implement for stirring your porridge as it cooks. I bought it for 50c...using a spurtle makes for better porridge. In a blindtasting, I doubt I...the difference between spurtled porridge and themore conventional sort that...
OATSO DEAR; Quick porridge 12 times cost of homemade.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 4/12/2007; 649 words ; Byline: By Karen Bale OATSO SIMPLE porridge costs 12 times as much per serving than...Scott's Porage Oats worked out at 7p. Porridge sales have rocketed by 81 per cent since...Celebrity Big Brother contestants tucked into porridge on a daily basis. Studies have praised...
MSPs LIKE TO DO PORRIDGE
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 9/18/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...what goes into their bodies - discovered porridge wasn't on the menu at the parliament...national dishes. The first shot in the porridge war was fired, naturally enough, by...morning," she said. And the ripples of porridge dissent quickly spread across the parties...