This was but indifferent talk to a man whose bread you have been eating (it is mostly porridge and saps, but no matter) for weeks and weeks!
Specially I was distressed to hear of one who rose betimes to milk a cow, so that the cream would have time to rise on the morning's milk by their porridge time!
She laid down the porridge spurtle like a queen abdicating her sceptre.
I don't want any of that nasty porridge I know they are about to prepare for supper.
She made trifles of vegetable marrow, tartlets of hen feathers to soothe the nerves, salads of spinach and carraway comfits, delicacies composed of porridge and mint, and the most luscious stews of pine-cones and lard.
Hiding his annoyance as much as he could, Bill tried to convince him how nice porridge really is and how good for him, but the discontented old man, who no doubt had been very much spoilt as a boy, would hear nothing of it.
The ordinary way of making porridge is the following--Put as much water as is likely to be required into a saucepan with a sprinkling of salt, and let the water boil.
Porridge is wholesome and nourishing, and will help to make them strong and hearty.
During the boiling the porridge must be stirred frequently to keep it from sticking to the saucepan and burning, but each time this is done the lid must be put on again.
The porridge can be flavoured with pepper and salt, but is very nice with brown sugar, treacle, or jam, and when cold forms an agreeable accompaniment to stewed fruit.
The very best method that can be adopted for making porridge is to soak the coarse Scotch oatmeal in water for twelve hours, or more (if the porridge is wanted for breakfast it may be put into a pie-dish over night, and left till morning).
When there are children in the family it is a good plan, whatever they may have for breakfast, to let them begin the meal either with oatmeal porridge or bread-and-milk.
The proportions for porridge made in this way are a heaped tablespoonful of coarse oatmeal to a pint of water.
Even grown-up people frequently enjoy a small portion of porridge served with treacle and milk.
Mozinkwa's wife had cotton growing all round her premises, and several plants used as relishes to the insipid porridge of the country.
When intended to be used as food, this meal is stirred into boiling water: they put in as much as can be moistened, one man holding the vessel and the other stirring the porridge with all his might.
Fortunately we had some flour and a bottle of curry-powder; therefore we dined off dhurra-porridge and curry, and lay down on our camp-sheets to sleep.
The wives appeared to be excellent women, as they arrived in great numbers with a quantity of hard porridge made of dhurra flour, which was to form the commissariat for a journey of nearly 160 miles to Unyoro and back.
The smoking porridge reminded her that she was hungry; so brushing away the tears, she slipped a spoon off the table, and whenever she found the chance, dipped it into the bowl for a mouthful.
The door opened at once when he knocked, though, and inside he found a little girl, stirring porridge over a small fire.
He wants nothing but a bowl of porridge set out for him on the cellar steps once in a while, and a chance to creep in the house and curl up in a chimney corner of a cold evening, winking and blinking at the fire with his one eye.
My eyes had watched him with growing interest and I got to the table about as soon as the porridge and mounted a chair and seized a spoon.
He made some porridge in a kettle while I sat holding my little hands over the stove to warm them, and a sense of comfort grew in me.
In a minute he came and sat down to his own porridge and bread and butter.
He dipped some porridge into bowls and put them on a small table.
Make a dough with one cupful of oatmealporridge and Graham flour.
But Mrs Anderson had a sumptuous breakfast of oatmeal porridge and fresh milk ready for the strangers.
By my sleep to-night," said one Hag, "this porridgeis salty.
The crooked old woman was so terrified that she gave him a supper of porridge and showed him a bed to sleep in.
So then when the tables were laid we went to supper, And much pulse porridge then we ate, but more did still flow in.
And the witty Aristophanes said, in his Gerytades-- You're teaching him to boil porridge or lentils.
Let a dyspeptic ascertain that he can eat porridge three times a day and live, and straightway he insists that everybody ought to eat porridge and nothing else.
This look very good porridge pot,’ said he; ‘I think it will suit me.
Master,’ says he, ‘I want to buy a good large iron porridge pot; please to show me some.
So the man brings three or four big iron porridge pots, the very best he has.
He called for a carte and ordered porridge and a sole, and they were some time in bringing his breakfast.
Then hisporridge came, and I proceeded with my toast and marmalade, and the letter I had from you in Bombay, which lay beside my plate.
After they had eaten their porridge they were quite ready to bathe their tired feet in the hot water their hostess had ready, and go to bed, although the sun was yet an hour above the horizon.
We will eat our porridge without your father," Mrs. Weston said gravely.
They went by the lower trail," explained the woman, as she stirred the hot porridge she was cooking for the girls' supper.
As she ate her porridge her mother questioned her about the adventure of the previous day, and for a time Rebby forgot her own worries in listening to Anna's account of her journey in the leaking boat, and of her leap to safety.
But he passed by fields that held sheaves of grain for the birds and doorsteps that held bowls of porridge for the wee creatures.
The smoking porridge reminded her that she was hungry; so brushing away the tears she slipped a spoon off the table and whenever she found the chance, dipped it into the bowl for a mouthful.
The mother distributed the porridge and gave each a spoon but she looked anxious.
What was it Hilda had said to Anne only that morning at breakfast when the porridge was burned and the coffee was half-cold?
She had borne with her supper, which consisted of porridge and milk, the night before, but her breakfast was by no means to her taste.
The boys'll have cold porridge to-night, without any milk, and that's all I can give you.
Then he stole forth, hoping that he would get his porridge before the "buik" came on.
Gin ye are no' doon the stairs in three meenits, no' a drap o' porridge or a sup o' milk shall ye get the day!
It is a strange thing that the thought of rattling on the ribs of a lazy, sleepy moon with a besom-shank pleased him as much as a plate of porridgeand as much milk as he could sup to it.
Porridge night and morning is not costly when you use little milk.
So forthwith I was shown into a room where a lady in a flowered dressing-gown was sitting up in bed eating some fine kind of porridge and cream out of a silver platter.
This confidence was partly owing to full feeding on fine porridge and braxy, but more to that inbred belief of Galloway in itself which the ill-affected and envious nominate its conceit.
The three MacWalter children were sitting at the table taking their porridge and milk with horn spoons.
Porridge is, no doubt, good feeding; but it vanishes away like the morning cloud, and leaves behind it only an aching void.
Therefore, we students had porridge twice a day, with a herring in between, except when we were saving up for a book.
The minister went down into the little study to take his spare breakfast of porridge and milk.
He even made his own porridge in the wide-sounding kitchen of the gabled manse, on the hill above the harbour.
The traffic with the Isle of Man, whence the hardy fishermen ran their cargoes of Holland gin and ankers of French brandy, put good gear on the back of many a burgher's wife, and porridge into the belly of many a fisherman's bairn.
When he entered Mrs. Maclean's cottage, where his breakfast of porridge was ready, he made and received the usual salutation of blessing: and then sat down in silence.
On the table the porridge was untouched, the new bread uncut, the warm milk grown tepid.
On the rickety wooden table was a bowl with a little unfinished porridge in it.
There were steaming bowls ofporridge and a large glass dish of marmalade set out.
Then the children were bidden to sit down to the table, and Jeff tasted porridge for the first time.
The chief had seen us with his own eyes devour porridge as if we were starving.
Porridge is poor business when there's loving to be done," I argued.
It's early for harvest," Keefer volunteered to us, when he had finished his porridge and was half way through a plate of potatoes and pork.
There now," she expostulated at length, "let me get the porridge on.
It is wonderful how much philosophizing one can accomplish between washing the porridge pot and peeling the potatoes when there is nothing else to be done.
I shoved my burningporridge to the back of the stove and rushed to my room to complete dressing.
