Condiments were no longer available; mealie meal was withheld, and the soup had thus become thinner and less seasoned.
Everybody knows that it is a sore trial for the Boer to live without coffee, but this national beverage disappeared entirely from our menu, and its loss was only partly replaced by the "mealie coffee" which we set about preparing.
This "mealie coffee" made a very palatable drink, especially as we were frequently able to obtain milk to mix with it.
Mealie pap is cooked in a simple fashion, and occasionally boiling hot pots of it have fallen into the hands of the British.
The mealie was roasted over a fire and afterwards treated in a similar manner to that by which the coffee bean is prepared.
They carry a mealie cob stuck on the point of an assagai.
Sour bread, or "Bogobe bo bolila," is made by taking coarse mealie meal, mixing it with cold water and a little yeast.
The "Bogobe," or bread, is made by pouring mealie meal into a pot of boiling water.
With a spring Jack landed upon the driving-board, and, diving beneath the apron of the tent, crawled on to the top of a pile of mealie bags.
Then, as the man jumped on the driving-board, he stretched himself full-length on the mealie bags and snored loudly as if fast asleep.
Meanwhile Jack had thrown himself upon the mealie bags, and, lifting the flap of the tent behind, peered out in readiness to act should they be followed.
At four o'clock they had a supper of mealie with salt and water.
The food served out to them wasmealie porridge with salt, and not too much of that.
Jack can take a kettle and frying-pan, and the natives their blankets and twenty pounds ofmealie flour for themselves and five times as much mealies for the horses.
But the real character of this mealie swindle can only be appreciated when it is known how the contract originated.
We can get plenty of them comebacks' eggs, but the crumbing of them would rather bother me, and I should have to do it with mealie flour.
The detached company at Glencoe was withdrawn on the 18th, and on the 19th three companies of the regiment, under Major English, were sent to the Navigation Colliery in order to bring away large quantities of mealie bags stored there.
Away to the right, near the fountain, a patch of mealie and tobacco ground is almost ready for the rains that soon must fall.
The mealie gardens were thriving magnificently, and the whole place looked as fair and prosperous as a man could wish to see.
I rode towards their site; the mealie fields were choked with weeds, the paths were dumb with grass.
So we started cheerfully enough, and my spirits were so much improved that I was able to eat a boiled mealie cob or two as we walked.
I too ate and was thankful, for with the exception of the mealiecobs I had tasted nothing for nearly four-and-twenty hours.
Here, however, the enemy were in strong numbers, and a few of our men fell foul of some Boers in a mealie field, but miraculously escaped.
These buffalo are hard on the natives, breaking into their mealie patches and tearing things up badly.
He climbed up into the wagon, and lifted the lid of the chest, but there was no mealie cake there; Jack or Tant must have taken it out.
The egg was soon after declared to be done, and formed a very satisfactory omelette-like addition to the hard biltong and mealie cake which formed the ostrich-farmers' dinner.
This he held back for a few moments in company with the last piece of mealie cake, wishing the while that he had cooked more, and brought a larger piece of the cake.
But either from obtuseness or obstinacy, he could get nothing from the woman, and he was about to let her go while he ate his breakfast of mealie cake and hot milk; but a sudden thought occurred to him.
You gan go to mein haus, und die frau will give you blenty of mealie gake und zom milk.
Sometimes a little mealie porridge is added or a little more bread.
Before the British advance Dutchmen fled precipitately from their farms, leaving their sweet mealie pap in statu quo, and all their effects exactly as they had been using them.
I have known her since she was a little child and played about the huts, while her mother worked in the mealie fields.
I asked of Abe on an evening after the mealie cobs had been shelled, and we were too dead tired to brush the husks from our hair.
Two days after I seed three of 'em stealing up across the veld, and blow me if they didn't come right up to the mealie patch.
Abe Pike was one of those men who would walk ten miles to set a trap without a murmur, while he thought himself badly used if he were called upon to hoe a row in the mealie field.
Well, now, I was tellin' you of that time I give the slip to the Kaffirs beyond Chumie and took hiding in the mealie field.
Then I crawled away inter the dark of the pantry--inter the mealie hole.
I nodded an inquiry, being engaged with the mealie cob, the eating of which occupies the mouth too fully for speech.
I noticed he looked empty, an', remembering how he'd saved me by leading the tiger off another way, I got out a mealie cob.
The coloured woman laughed, and threw a dozen mealie grains into her mouth to chew.
Loopholes were made in the buildings, and by means of two waggons and walls of mealie bags, they were connected and provisioned with the stores.
Now and again the battered entrenchments were repaired with mealie bags, and still the unequal fight went on.
On the third evening we reached some mealie gardens, and saw that they had been trampled down.
In the mealie gardens I stopped awhile, for I was very hungry, and filled myself with the half-ripe mealies.
Now when she had sobbed her fill of joy, Umslopogaas brought Nada the Lily mass to eat and mealie porridge.
He was there, hidden by the mealie stalks, and there, along the fence to the right and to the left, the slayers crept!
My mother called the white-faced cow and gave it mealie leaves which she had brought with her.
Then we hid in a mealie field for the day, as we were afraid of being seen.
It made us sometimes wonder whether it was quite right to leave German ducks and fowls and sheep behind us, when we had to live on mealie meal and tough trek-ox.
In the mealie fields are francolins in coveys, very like the red-legged partridge in their call, though in plumage nearer to its English brother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mealie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cob; corncob; ear; spike
