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porridge::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | dish |
| Has types | gruel, burgoo, oatmeal, hasty pudding |
Examples of porridge
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In the year to date, the company has sold 600,000 pots of porridge, for example.
From the telegraph.co.uk
They had received a telephone call and been told that I had thrown the porridge.
From the guardian.co.uk
They came for handouts of rice and a thick millet porridge from a local charity.
From the thestate.com
Tuna porridge is probably the most gruesome student concoction I've come across.
From the guardian.co.uk
I bet she can barely string a sentence together and dribbles porridge these days.
From the guardian.co.uk
Tradition has it that only a clan chief would eat porridge with a silver spoon.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
Porridge with blueberries and honey has also helped on many cold winter mornings.
From the guardian.co.uk
I mean, really, who doesn't like the smell of freshly brewed coffee and porridge?
From the nytimes.com
Spelt porridge flakes made into a savoury porridge is a great start to the day.
From the independent.co.uk
- Soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
- Porridge (also spelled porage, parritch, etc.) is a dish made by boiling oats (rolled, crushed, or steel cut) or other grains or legumes in water, milk, or both. It is usually served hot in a bowl or dish.
- Porridge is a 1979 film based upon the Television series of the same name. It was shot entirely on location (Chelmsford Prison, Essex, UK). All the regular sitcom warders and inmates were involved, with the exception of Lukewarm, Heslop, and Harris. ...
- Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. ...
- A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley; A dish made grain or legumes, milk and/or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast; A prison sentence
- One of the best known of all Scottish dishes. Made by stirring oatmeal into boiling water or milk. Optionally served with sugar. Usually, but not always, eaten at breakfast.
- Is not, on the whole, a successful dish for wheat. Wheat porridges take a long time to cook and are relatively tasteless, greatly inferior to oat porridge. They have, however, been eaten in the north of China, like corresponding rice dishes in the south. ...
- A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making a broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, oat porridge (oatmeal) etc.
- Thick oatmeal rarely found on American tables since children were granted the right to sue their parents. The name is an amalgamation of the words "Putrid", "hORRId" and "sluDGE".
