gruels

Such families lived on one-pot meals -- gruels, soups, stews -- bread, macaroni, and oatmeal.

Archive 2008-03-01 Linda 2008

Such families lived on one-pot meals -- gruels, soups, stews -- bread, macaroni, and oatmeal.

More Work for Mother 8 -- 1890-1920: The Impoverished Other Half Linda 2008

The African Council of Food and Nutritional Sciences estimates that these gruels supply only half of the energy content of breast milk and little of the protein.

Josh Ruxin: Hungry Cows, Hungrier People 2009

In developing countries, weaning foods are commonly gruels made from staple cereals such as rice, maize, and wheat.

Josh Ruxin: Hungry Cows, Hungrier People 2009

This same Lethlean article also refers to another kind of porridge, one made from ground corn - polenta - which was also the Italian word to describe gruels made in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance from things like spelt, chestnut flour and the aforementioned millet and acorns.

At My Table 2008

Less appealing but very nourishing were gruels, a sort of liquid drink made from cereals such as millet, rye, barley, oats, corn and of course wheat, whose modern equivalents are porridge and polenta.

At My Table 2008

The sweet potatoes were cooked, mashed, and added to these gruels as a thickener and nutrient.

Mexican Sweet Potatoes, from Soup to Dessert: Los Camotes 2006

Less appealing but very nourishing were gruels, a sort of liquid drink made from cereals such as millet, rye, barley, oats, corn and of course wheat, whose modern equivalents are porridge and polenta.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

The sweet potatoes were cooked, mashed, and added to these gruels as a thickener and nutrient.

Mexican Sweet Potatoes, from Soup to Dessert: Los Camotes 2006

They suggested that this would have then been cooked into a gruel, a precursor to the gruels that fed European and New World peasants for so many centuries.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008