oat-meal

A Scots poetic example from 1790: 'Twa pints o' weel-boilt solid sowins' an oat-meal beverage.

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A Scots poetic example from 1790: 'Twa pints o' weel-boilt solid sowins' an oat-meal beverage.

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He glories in his hard-fisted forefathers, of the iron girdle and the handful of oat-meal, who rode so swiftly and lived so sparely on their raids.

Memories and Portraits 2005

They have commonly pottage for dinner, composed of cale or cole, leeks, barley or big, and butter; and this is reinforced with bread and cheese, made of skimmed-milk — At night they sup on sowens or flummery of oat-meal — In a scarcity of oats, they use the meal of barley and pease, which is both nourishing and palatable.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

Take a peck of fine flour, half a peck of oat-meal, and mix it well together; put to it seven eggs well beat, three quarts of new milk, a little warm water, a pint of sack, and a pint of new yeast; mix all these well together, and let it stand to rise; then bake them.

English Housewifery 2004

Every educated woman ought to know, for instance, that cracked wheat and hominy, oat-meal, corn-bread, and Graham bread, should not, as a general rule, be made the staple of diet in case of what is popularly known as

The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

In the morning as she prepared the little bowls of oat-meal, she kept wiping her eyes.

The Graymouse Family Nellie Mabel Leonard

"Tell us all about it?" they begged, as Limpy-toes drew up his little stool and asked for his bowl of oat-meal porridge.

The Graymouse Family Nellie Mabel Leonard

Funny-looking scones came up that tasted rather of pea-soup; some of the meat dishes had a sort of padded-out aspect, and it was difficult to get quite away from oat-meal.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various

Hyphen removed in 'oat-meal' to ensure consistency

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens