Porridge, a highly nutritious kind of food made by boiling oatmeal in water, formerly at least one of the chief elements of diet of the Scotch peasantry. Besides oatmeal, porridge may be made of barley, beans, or the like, and instead of water milk may be used.
Porridge
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 329
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