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- noun Plural form of
porridge .
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Examples
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They can be used in porridges and toffee, brewed into beer, fermented into wine, and distilled into an ebony brandy.
Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011
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Declining variously suggested breakfast foods, mushes, and porridges, Graham had just ordered his soft-boiled eggs and bacon, when Bert Wainwright drifted in with
CHAPTER XII 2010
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In fact, what I find disturbing about Orban is not that he is anti-Communist look up nearly everything else that I've said on CiF and see if you can term me a reliable Bolshevik! but that the society he envisages is a far more "post-Communist" one, far more like the homogeneous porridges left in the states northwards, than what actually exists.
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October brings acorns, which can be leached and treated like a grain to make porridges, bread and even pancakes.
A Walk on the Wild Side Yukari Iwatani Kane 2010
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They can be used in porridges and toffee, brewed into beer, fermented into wine, and distilled into an ebony brandy.
Danielle Nierenberg: The Giving Trees: Five Trees You've Never Heard of that Are Helping to End Hunger Danielle Nierenberg 2011
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In making porridges, one holds them between the palms and spins them rapidly by moving the hands back and forth.
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Another word, * - paga, identifies such * ugali mixers in West Ruvu and Kagulu languages, though its sound correspondence is suggestive of a word transfer from a yet-unidentified source. 118 The fact that a proto-Ruvu-era word for such distinct mixers cannot be reconstructed may reflect refinement in food preparation specific to porridges and the ways they are made that developed in recent historical periods.
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These implements may have become increasingly important in the Kaskazi period because one of their staple food items came to include * ugali, thick porridges that provided a significant carbohydrate source. 116 Kaskazi period cooks likely made it by mixing flour and water.
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There is a similar interest in fruit, vegetables, and freshwater fish; similar pies, porridges, and ravioli; similar sauces and, of course, the same spices.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Besides being nutritious, seeds contributed to the flavor and texture of such foods as tamales, mullis - the precursors of mole - porridges and beverages.
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