halesome

Whether they are stirred in with a wooden spoon or, as Mitchell advises, with a spurtle or a gruel-tree Shetland usage is probably optional, but the addition of cream or milk – never sugar – completes a winter experience that can only be described as truly halesome.

In praise of … porridge | Editorial 2011

"They're fine halesome food – they're grand food, parritch," he pronounces to his nephew David.

In praise of … porridge | Editorial 2011

[324-33] The _halesome parritch_ is the _wholesome porridge_ of oatmeal.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

"The halesome parritch, chief of Scotia's food," said Burns, with fervid eloquence.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The halesome parritch, [324-33] chief o 'Scotia's food:

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

A plate of sliced turnips and a dish of baked potatoes completed their "halesome farin '."

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

Go out into the supply camp and look at "the grub pile" – the great quarters of beef, naked and rosy – turn over the jagged vertebræ of a Manitoban range-ox and wonder however it grew; poke your fingers into sacks of rolled oats for "halesome parritch," rice, beans, and flour; poke two fingers, three if you like, into the raisins, prunes, peaches and syrup, and then put them in your mouth.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

The halesome parritch, chief of Scotia's food: [wholesome]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

` ` Your honour winna persuade me, and naebody shall persuade me, that it's either halesome or prudent to tak the night air on thae moors without a cordial o 'clow-gilliflower water, or

Rob Roy 1887

Have ye never a word to say, ye scorners of the halesome word, ye blaspheming despisers of doctrine?

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887